Washington-based Shamsher Singh, who was a classmate of the late Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch and five-time Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in a Lahore college in the early 1940s, says he is saddened by the passing of his .
THE partition of the country in 1947 saw bloodshed on both sides of the new border. This is an eye-witness account of the travails of the residents of our small village named Rukhsinghpura (since renamed Chhoti Rukh), which was about a mile east of Ramnagar (renamed Rasul Nagar) on the southern bank
From flagrant casteism on social media to murmurs of discomfort in political circles, the stirring of the status quo, where Jatt Sikhs had much of the political power, has not suited many in Punjab.