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As part of the media party to cover the visit of PM Vajpayee to Lahore in February 1999, some of us decided to see the city during our spare time. Lahore in any case has a special attraction for Punjabis like me, most of us have some connection or the other with the city. In my case, it’s my birthplace.
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Muktsar, March 15
SAD leader Dyal Singh Kolianwali, a close aide of former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, passed away at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram on Monday morning.
The three-time SGPC member was suffering from blood cancer.
His political career began when he became close to SAD leader Jasvir Singh Kakhanwali of Lambi area. After Kakhanwali’s death, Dyal Singh became close to the Badals.
He started as a sarpanch of Kolianwali village and was the Muktsar district president of the SAD. He held several key positions member of the Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board and chairman of Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation.
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LIKE other living organisms, libraries too die. They may survive for 700 years as Oxford’s Bodleian Library has done, but even that venerable institution is succumbing to infirmity.
Readers of my last column complained that there had been omissions in my mention of libraries that had been vandalised or destroyed throughout history. They are advised to access Google where they will find a lengthy but even then incomplete list of libraries that are remembered only for their ashes. Alternatively, they might find an answer in the last time they themselves visited a library.
Anyone who has grown up without a book as a sibling has had a deprived childhood. The seeds of my library were sown in my head, when, at a young age, I went to sleep to the sound of a book being read to me. As a student in England, I had access to the local public library that offered a limited range of titles to locals with even fewer interests. Two books a week spread over three terms a