The Edinburgh Festival held in September every year is famous the world over. Tourists come from all over Europe, and the town is given...

I joined the Punjab Cadre of the IAS in 1958. In August, 1965 with seven year service, I was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Ambala, the...

I joined the Punjab IAS in 1958. In 1960, Prime Minister Nehru signed the World Bank Sponsored Agreement with Prime Minister Liaqat Ali...

Yesterday the General Manager of the Delhi Telephones, Mr. P.C. Jauhri, offered a gift to the citizens of the capital (Statesman, 20th...

Cricket is my favourite game. In school at St. George's College, Mussoorie, I was as feared a left-arm demon bowler as Bedi has been on...

Sokoto is so far from Punjab, and yet it brings back little memories of that land. Like Punjab it is 1,000 miles from the sea. The Niger...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IN INDIA Can the Hindu caste system, which has always held India's 576,000 villages together, survive the...

Whenever and wherever we discussed the charms of the valley during our recent visit to Kashmir a new name kept cropping up. Everyone...

She stood there alone like “Ruth amid the alien corn”. Behind her was the vastness of a tropical forest with trees more than a 150 feet...

My wife said: We must go to the pictures. Haven’t been there for years”. I demurred, seeing no reason to break a sensible policy. She...

In September 1962, Spiti burst upon the national scene with a tragic drama, involving over 2,000 people – men and women engaged in the...

I like going to the Himalayas. The love affair started in 1961, when I trained at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling,...

After a long time I had occasion on Monday to see women at play. The occasion was the final of the Women's Hockey Championship at...

He stands defiantly on the traffic island leading to the Punjab Secretariat. He wears a yellow turban and a military great coat, over...

Such is the chaos that one notices on the Chandigarh Roads Many years ago the road going past Safdarjung airport in New Delhi towards the...

His passing away is a great loss to hill culture For The Tribune, Tribute | November 22, 2020 In 1959, the Chinese suddenly attacked...

I’ll miss the birds in my garden, but will they miss me? For Outlook | May 16, 2016 In life, there is a time to come, and a time to go. ...

In August 1965, newly married and barely 30, I became Deputy Commissioner of the old British District of Ambala, which stretched from...

If only the Kashmir imbroglio would end, India, Pakistan, as well as the two Punjabs would see tremendous growth benefiting everyone. For...

For HT City Chandigarh | March 11, 2012 When I was a little boy in Tarn Taran, a doggerel known to every Punjabi was oft quoted: “The...