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In April 1995, then Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao was nervous as militants had taken hold of the famous Charar-i-Sharif and he invited a Kashmir expert to discuss what his government could do, in addition to the Army siege of the militants, to resolve the impasse. The expert senstised Rao on the matter – Charar-i-Sharif was not merely a place of religious worship, but
The recent elections to the German parliament marked the end of an era in more ways than one. For one, this was the first time in several decades that Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany’s first woman chancellor, did not contest the elections. More importantly, it is the first time in two decades that Merkel did not lead her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in the
Whatever Navjot Singh Sidhu meant by saying that “the collapse of a man’s character stemmed from the compromise corner”, his resignation as the Punjab Congress president meant the collapse of a political arrangement the party made in the state in the last few weeks and of the credibility of the party high command that made the arrangement, with the party being effectively seen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly covered an array of subjects, ranging from India’s achievements in vaccine development to the Afghan crisis, the effectiveness of the UN, the need for a rules-based order on the seas, and extremism.
The hyphenated word Dalit-Sikh, being used in the media in the wake of the recent transfer of power from a dynast to a Dalit in Punjab, connotes a historical gap, an unfinished integration, a failed promise, or worse an unbridgeable divide. For many outside Punjab, this must have come as a big surprise, even shock, since Sikhism has been understood commonly as an equalitarian