Manohar Singh Gill: An Officer of the People
Remembrance
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Tshering Dorje, my Lahaul-Spiti brother
Read more here →: Tshering Dorje, my Lahaul-Spiti brotherThe Tribune, Tribute | November 22, 2020 In 1959, the Chinese suddenly attacked an Indian police patrol in Ladakh. Chief Minister Partap Singh Kairon immediately created a border district beyond Manali, across the Rohtang Pass (13,050 feet). We had to walk over the Pass and all over this mountain district of two valleys, Lahaul and…
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Remembering Kalkat, the farm officer
Read more here →: Remembering Kalkat, the farm officerThe Tribune, Chandigarh | February 1, 2018 The success of Punjab’s Green Revolution is well known and, I think today, that Dr Kalkat and others were not adequately recognised. The Punjab Agriculture University at Ludhiana was set up in 1960 by Sardar Pratap Singh Kairon. Mr PN Thapar, ICS, was the first Vice-Chancellor. A remarkable…
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Remembering Ajit
Read more here →: Remembering AjitIn August 1965, newly married and barely 30, I became Deputy Commissioner of the old British District of Ambala, which stretched from Bhakra to the Yamuna, below the hills. There was no Haryana till November, 1966. The Indo-Pak war started on the 6th September. Those were exciting times; we were bombed twice, by Pak Air.…
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End Of An Insurrection
Read more here →: End Of An InsurrectionFor Outlook | August 13, 2001 She was hope for women down there. Her death symbolises victory for oppression. Phoolan Devi is dead. Brutally shot down on her doorstep, coming home from Parliament for lunch. Sitting on a balmy summer day on the river bank in Cambridge, I find it difficult to believe. But it is…