For The Tribune, Chandigarh | November 3, 2016 Jawahar Lal Nehru at the capital site in Chandigarh Partition in 1947 was the greatest...

For   The Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh | July 6, 1980 We were sitting in a group with the conversation drifting from one thing to the other. The bank manager casually mentioned his doctor son, now settled in the U.S.A. "My other two sons have followed him", he said with a tinge of sadness. "Once gone they never come back." The famous Sportsman-turned-Administrator smiled, and said as if in confirmation: “I got a phone call from my son in Vancouver last week. He wanted my permi

For   The Tribune | April 18, 1980 Possibly the most exclusive Indian club is a worldwide group of Punjabis. Since Punjabis are spread over the far corners of the globe, the membership perforce has to be an international one. Of course, it is another matter that when the members, like good Americans, decide to exchange visiting cards, they discover that they all hail from within 20 miles of Nawanshahr Doaba. The membership of this club is hard to come by, but the committee do

For The Tribune | April 10, 1980 Punjab is a dusty plain a thousand miles from the sea. The only water it knows of are the five sluggish meandering rivers that sustain its people. Even these are valued only for their irrigation potential. The Punjabi does not sport with them as do the Europeans with their waterways. Few Punjabis, in fact, care for swimming, fishing and other water sports. One would hardly expect to see Punjabis as sailors. The other day I fell in with two y

For   The Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh | November 4, 1979 Today the Chief Minister of Punjab will unveil in Ludhiana a 10 ft. high bronze statue of Major Bhupinder Singh, M.V.C., of Hodsons Horse, who gave his life for the country in the Sialkot sector in the 1965 war. For me, personally, it is the fulfilment of a long-cherished wish. My memories flow back, over the years, to the time when Bhupinder came to Hodsons Horse as one of the first officers commissioned after Independ

For The Tribune | March 29, 1979 I had taken an Air India flight from Heathrow for Delhi. The Jumbo jet was packed with Punjabis looking...

For The Illustrated Weekly of India | July 30, 1972 The Punjabi farmers migrated to Madhya Pradesh in 1947. They cleared forests and...