The Book on Pakistan To Read if You Like Coke StudioÂ
Sameer Arshad Khatlaniâs The Other Side of the Divide elegantly underlines that the emergence of India and Pakistan are but moments in the broader span of South Asian history marked by mutuality and belonging. It is the mind-cleansing antidote that Indians need.
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In the 1970s and 80s, Indians used to imagine how unbeatable a joint India-Pakistan cricket team would be if the country was not partitioned in 1947. This was, in some ways, a fantasy to cope with the domination of the West Indies and a hope that a united unit could do better than the underachieving teams at the time.
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The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD-Badal) in no mood to correct historic wrongs kept its centenary function low-profile at Akal Takht Sahib today making an excuse that “the ongoing farmers’ agitation would suffer if the function is held on large scale”, thereby missing an opportunity to energize its rank and file.
The party leaders led by president Sukhbir Badal gathered at Akal Takht Sahib to attend the bhog of Akhand Path Sahib organized by the party to mark the 100
th foundation day. It seems that they have come here to do just formality. None of them delivered any speech on the occasion. Nor the senior party leadership gave the party cadre any programe for the future. It is being said in the Sikh circles that they could organize the function at Manji Sahib Diwan hall in the complex of Sri Harmandar Sahib after the bhog ceremony at Takht Sahib, but they did not do so.
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Parkash Singh Badal (garlanded) being taken into custody by the police in Chandigarh in 1987, he was released the same day
JALANDHAR: Shiromani Akali Dal, the second oldest party of the country, will complete 100 years of its formation on Monday. The party, with many glorious chapters in its history, is now in crisis and the biggest indication of this crisis is its near absence from the protests led by the farmers of Punjab, who are mostly Sikh.
For a political party, which was at the centre of several mass agitations in the past, being reduced to the role of a bystander in one of the biggest protests in the country has been a major setback.