Shaheed Bhagat Singh was a well-read, articulate young man who significantly impacted Indian history and left behind a legacy that even 80 years after his martyrdom is still very much a part of Indian cultural ethos.
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Raghu Rai’s photos speak for themselves, yet the treat becomes much more impressive when he speaks to you while showing his pictures. The photographic legend had come to Chandigarh yet again on March 9, 2011.
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February 24 is Giani Gurdit Singh ji’s birth anniversary. Please click on to see his pictures and articles on him, including the one that was printed in the Punjabi Ajit today.
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While musing over the fact that out of the 479 students who were awarded degrees at the 60th annual convocation function at Panjab University, Chandigarh, 351 were girls, I thought of how educating daughters is a hoary tradition in a state that also has to contend with the blot of killing of unborn daughters. As I was browsing, I came across an article, written in 2008, that is still relevant…
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I must admit to have written a love letter or two. I have never spoken or written about these love letters, and now would be as bad a time as any to discuss them or their contents. Yet, I am doing so…
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My first computer was an Apple SE. It was Apple’s latest offering in India, iPad that made me a reported again, as Girija Shankar Kaura and I wrote a report on iPad’s debut.
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“We have managed to get some copies of Parkash,” said Devinder Singh. What he said was very important to me, personally, since my father, the late Giani Gurdit Singh, published Parkash, a newspaper in Punjabi, and for some years in Urdu, from 1947-1978.
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What the cell phone meant was freedom from the tyranny of the tangle of landlines. A flawed, sometimes dysfunctional, and often cacophonic freedom is infinitely better than being tied down, as we Indians especially know.
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ਟੈਕਨਾਲੌਜੀ ਨੇ ਸਾਡੀ ਜ਼ਿੰਦਗੀ ਦਾ ਮੁਹਾਂਦਰਾ ਹੀ ਬਦਲ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ। ਆਉਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਵਰ੍ਹੇ 2011 ਵੱਲ ਝਾਤ ਮਾਰਦਿਆਂ ਅਸੀਂ ਵੇਖਦੇ ਹਾਂ ਕਿ ਤਕਨੀਕ (ਈ- ਕ੍ਰਾਂਤੀ) ਸਾਡੇ ਰੋਜ਼ਮਰ੍ਹਾ ਦੇ ਰਹਿਣ-ਸਹਿਣ ਦਾ ਇਕ ਅਟੁੱਟ ਅੰਗ ਬਣ ਗਈ ਹੈ
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At the core of Punjabi University, Patiala, is a commitment towards the language it is named after. The intellectual resources of this university should now be harnessed to publish more informative articles, in Punjabi, for the online world. It should lead the movement to populate Punjabi Wikipedia
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