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

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...

For The Tribune He walked into the plush office of a refrigeration company in New Delhi and asked to see the managing director. His...

Published on July 18, 1980 The Orient Express was made famous by Agatha Christie. In the days of the raj the most romantic train on the...

Published on July 6, 1980 We were sitting in a group with the conversation drifting from one thing to the other. The bank manager...

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

Published on April 15, 1980 The Punjabi film industry will today receive formal recognition when the State Governor Mr Jaisukhlal Hathi,...

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

Published on November 12, 1979 Mr Parkash Singh Badal will today lay the foundation stone of the Punjab Arts Council building near the...

Published on November 4, 1979 Today the Chief Minister of Punjab will unveil in Ludhiana a 10 ft. high bronze statue of Major Bhupinder...

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

Published on March 4, 1979 At Cambridge University, achieving high academic results is not the main purpose of life. The students are...

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

For The Tribune | October 24, 1977 I grew up in the shadow of Amritsar, or Ambarsar, as we say in that part of Punjab. My village lies...

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

For The Sunday Tribune | March 20, 1977 I first heard of Kalapani as a boy in an Amritsar village. It was a place familiar to every...

For The Tribune | October 24, 1976 Republished in The Statesman | January 2, 1977 We were standing at the bar sipping pints of...

For The Illustrated Weekly of India | July 11, 1976 The author, visiting Southall after eight years, finds the immigrant community in...

For The Illustrated Weekly of India | July 30, 1972 The Punjabi farmers migrated to Madhya Pradesh in 1947. They cleared forests and...