12 SIKH MISLS
SIKH MISLS Post Banda Singh Bahadur’s death, a trend evolved in which fractious, freewheeling bands of warriors of varying strengths scoured the countryside acquiring/defending their possessions, 65 such hands existed, but over time, coalesced into 12 jathas or ‘Miss (Arab for ‘Like’). Otherwise fractious, they united to defend Sikhism when it was under Mughal/Afghan threat. […]Read More
TIMELINE of various historical WARs of North India region
1. 538 BCE: Persian Empire conquered INDUS valley 2. 326 BCE: Alexander the Great defeated King Porus 3. 322 BCE: Chandragupta occupied Pataliputra 4. 1st Century CE (68CE): Establishment of the Kushan Empire. 5. 320 to 600 CE: Establishment of Gupta Empire. 6. 7th Century CE (606 CE): Harsha’s (Harshavardhan’s) […]Read More
November 18, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Mitterrand’s Views
In a 40-minute interview to The Indian Express, French president Francois Mitterrand answered a wide-range of questions about East-West relations, the North-South dialogue, his domestic problems, relations with India and his intellectual pursuits. France’s socialist President Francois Mitterrand said that his country would fiercely guard its autonomy and would not re-enter NATO. In a 40-minute […]Read More
आखिर क्यों की जाती है गोवर्धन पर्वत की परिक्रमा, जानें इसका महत्व
पांच दिन तक चलने वाले दिवाली महापर्व के चौथे दिन गोवर्धन पूजा की जाती है. गोवर्धन पूजा को अन्नकूट के नाम से भी जाना जाता है. इस पर्व के जरिये मनुष्य और प्रकृति के बीच का सीधा संबंध भी नजर आता है. गोवर्धन पूजा के पहले पशुपालक अपने जानवरों को सजाते संवारते हैं. खास तौर […]Read More
बाबे नानक दा ब्याह: वह कच्ची दीवार जिसके पास बैठ गुरुजी ने विवाह की रस्में पूरी की थीं, आज भी है सुरक्षित
श्री गुरुनानक देव जी के विवाह की रस्में बटाला स्थित गुरुद्वारा श्री कंध साहिब में निभाई गई थीं। इस ऐतिहासिक गुरुद्वारे में उनसे जुड़ी कई निशानियां मौजूद हैं। इनमें से सबसे प्रमुख है वह कच्ची दीवार (कंध) जिसके पास बैठ कर गुरुजी ने विवाह की रस्में पूरी की थीं। बताया जाता है कि गुरु जी […]Read More
पंजाब: विदेश में बसने की होड़ राज्य के युवाओं को क्यों भारी पड़ रही है
पंजाब में कुछ लड़के विदेश में बसने के लिए ऐसी लड़की से शादी करते हैं, जो विदेश में पढ़ने के लिए पात्रता रखती हो. दोनों के बीच तय होता है कि लड़का व उसका परिवार उसे विदेश भेजने का पूरा ख़र्च उठाएंगे और फिर लड़की स्पाउस यानी जीवनसाथी को मिलने वाला वीज़ा भेजकर उसे भी […]Read More
Partition was not just ‘batwara’ or division, it was ‘ujara’ or devastation
Manish Tewari writes: What we owe the generation that suffered its horrors is a degree of equanimity and sensitivity when we recall those terrible times, not a politically loaded metaphor of polarisation. On August 21, I travelled to Amritsar to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple and Durgiana Mandir, both powerful symbols of Punjab’s syncretic […]Read More
Marco Omizzolo: The Italian Activist Punjabi Immigrants Hail as ‘Sent by God’
Omizzolo not only organised the largest ever strike of exploited immigrants in Italy, but rescued one of them from horrific conditions of near slavery. One morning in 2009, young sociology student Marco Omizzolo was driving past the lush green fields of Lazio, Italy, when he noticed a Sikh immigrant lying injured on the road. He […]Read More
Birdwatch: Black-rumped Flameback’s repeated knocks on dry trees gives a musical experience
The species also called Lesser Goldenback can be identified from its overall golden yellow upper parts with spotting on black throat, shoulders, and folded grimparies, black rump and tail. Black-rumped Flameback also known as Lesser Goldenback is one of the very common resident birds in the Inter-State Chandigarh Region (ISCR). The male and female of […]Read More
What Explains Amritpal Singh’s Mystifying Rise as the New Poster Boy of Radical Sikh Politics?
The 29-year-old is accused by mainstream politicians of creating tensions in Punjab. His followers hail him for addressing ‘festering wounds’. An unknown figure until a few months ago, 29-year-old Amritpal Singh is now being spoken of as the new poster boy of Sikh radical politics in Punjab. Amritpal, who returned to India from Dubai just a […]Read More
