For The Sunday Tribune | June 8, 1980 WE were sipping iced nimboo-pani with some friends. The conversation was about life at Chandigarh....

Published on May 25, 1980 l first went to England in 1967.Coming from a soldiering family I was besieged with requests to call on old...

Published on April 18, 1980 Possibly the most exclusive Indian club is a worldwide group of Punjabis. Since Punjabis are spread over the...

April 10, 1980 Punjab is a dusty plain a thousand miles from the sea. The only water it knows of are the five sluggish meandering rivers...

For The Tribune | December 28, 1979 I knew Mr Lal Singh Kang many years ago as my Sub Divisional Magistrate in Jullundur. A tall,...

For The Tribune | April 26, 1979 In a country obsessed with the activities of politicians, big and small, the death of a bureaucrat in...

For The Tribune | March 29, 1979 I had taken an Air India flight from Heathrow for Delhi. The Jumbo jet was packed with Punjabis looking...

For The Sunday Tribune | November 5, 1978 Why is it that our city fathers (I include in this category both officers and elected public...

For The Indian Express | October 6, 1978 Chandigarh: Glorious tributes have been paid to Le Corbusier by many great architects of the...

The author recalls his correspondence with the Army authorities in which he had made a plea for a suitable memorial for the unknown...

For The Sunday Tribune | March 12, 1978 He sits opposite me with the inherent dignity of those born to the soil. A tall grey-bearded man...

For The Sunday Tribune | September 4, 1977 This is not the only Punjab there is. There is another one – the original one – that lies...

The Patriot Who Avenged The Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre For The Illustrated Weekly of India | January 30, 1972 The day of reckoning came...

These days everyone wants to have a good time. They all “want to enjoy”. How does one do that in an overgrown village like Chandigarh?...

Published on February 23, 1969 l heard of him as soon as I arrived in Cambridge. The one and only Mr. Singh. We met a few days later. It...

For The Tribune | August 18, 1968 Thirty-five miles north of Cambridge lies Elveden Hall Estate, 20 thousand acres of rich Suffolk...

For The Tribune | March 31, 1968 ''Politics", said Dr. Johnson, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel". In Punjab the study of law is...

For The Tribune | November 10, 1967 In Cambridge one does not feel too homesick. There are a host of Indian students and some dons who...

A FOLK TALE FROM LAHAUL For The Tribune | April 5, 1964 Once a wolf, a crow and a rabbit were going along the road when they came upon...