Amritsar

Bolts from the Blue

Lhendup G Bhutia

Is climate change turning lightning into a big killer in India?

‘I want to treat facts of history as sacred,’ says Navtej Sarna

Nandini Nair

Navtej Sarna’s new novel recounts the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The author and diplomat speaks to Nandini Nair about writing the history of Punjab and the freedom struggle through fiction

Old Objects, New Stories

Antara Raghavan

Indian museums respond to changing narratives and exacting visitor demands

Seeking Truth with Tagore

Shashi Tharoor

Thoughts on the uses of his ideas on the eve of his 80th death anniversary

India-Pakistan Trade: Border Trauma

Nikita Doval

The suspension of India-Pakistan trade has taken a toll on businesses and lives in Amritsar and Attari. Deserted check posts and empty warehouses are reminders of the boom that went bust in February last year

The Malabar Angle

Madhavi Thampi

A singular fight against the Empire

Archbishop of Canterbury: Taking a Stand by Falling Flat

Stephen David

Justin Portal Welby’s actions in Jallianwala Bagh must spur his sphere of influence to go beyond pulpit pontifications

From Margin to Centre

Nonica Datta

Jawaharlal Nehru hailed the Amritsar Congress as the first ‘Gandhi Congress’. It was in 1919 that the young Jawaharlal became Gandhi’s lieutenant and organised relief work in the Punjab. Thus began one of the most critical and longest political partnerships of modern India