Punjab

Raiders of a Different Arc

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Last week, India became the champions of circle kabaddi, a game that combines the skills of wrestling, judo and athletics, all at once.

Gone in Thirty Seconds

Arindam Mukherjee

In rowdy-as-ever Punjab, the spirit of kabaddi trumped the heat, chaos and IPL cricket in a festive celebration of the game.

India This Week

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Mulayam May Lose Strength in the RS; Where’s the Thackeray Roar?; A Life of Dissent; Naga Negotiations; The Dera Riots That Could Well Have Been

India This Week

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Punjab: Where Violence Begets Violence; Congress Fights Hard for UP; When the Forces are not with Chidambaram; Why Only Narsimha Rao; Losing Control of the Telangana Movement?

This is invisible Punjab, bypassing the airbrushed mythology of its prosperity and the always-happy-always-cheerful Punjabi. This is a key to the understanding of how the Sufi way has come to rest with the state’s impoverished Dalits.