The Punjab Story

Author : Amarjit Kaur,Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora,Khushwant Singh,MV Kamanth,Shekhar Gupta,Subhash Kirpekar,Sunil Sethi,Tavleen Singh
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9788174369123

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The Punjab Story by Amarjit Kaur,Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora,Khushwant Singh,MV Kamanth,Shekhar Gupta,Subhash Kirpekar,Sunil Sethi,Tavleen Singh Pdf

6 June 1984: The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Called Operation Bluestar, the historic and unprecedented event ended the growing spectre of terrorism perpetrated by the extremist Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers once and for all. But it left in its wake unsolved political questions that continued to threaten Punjab's stability for years to come. How, in a brief span of three years, did India's dynamic frontier state become a national problem? Who was to blame: the central government for allowing the crisis to drift despite warnings, or the long-drawn-out Akali agitation, or the notorious gang of militants who transformed a holy shrine into a sanctuary for terrorists? First published two months after Operation Bluestar, The Punjab Story pieces together the complex Punjab jigsaw through the eyes of some of India's most eminent public figures and journalists. Writing with the passion and conviction of those who were involved with the drama, they present a wide-ranging perspective on the past, present and future of the Punjab tangle; and the truth of many of their'conclusions having been borne out by time.

Author : Harish Dhillon
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789384544201

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Love Stories from Punjab by Harish Dhillon Pdf

Here is an enthralling new book with heart-rending, poignant and engrossing stories of immortal love, unfettered emotions and everlasting appeal that have stood the test of time… This volume comprises a collection of mystical stories from Punjab that forces the now ordinary and practical meaning of love to change into its illogical and irrational self it once used to be. An exposition of Sufi philosophy, each story possesses both the calm and the storm of true love – a love that consumes the body and the heart; a love that goes beyond all common sense; a love better known as junoon (intense passion), that finally culminates in ibaadat (worship) and the love of God. From Sohni-Mahiwal to Heer-Ranjha, Sassi-Punnu to Mirza-Sahiban, Harish Dhillon succinctly encapsulates the rich cultural and literary heritage Punjab is so famously synonymous with. Love Stories from Punjab brings alive the forgotten magic of folklore that will tug at all the right strings of the heart, once again. Drama, romance, tragedy and history are interwoven in the form of an exquisite tapestry.

Author : K. S. Brar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : India
ISBN : 8174760687

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Operation Blue Star by K. S. Brar Pdf

Operation Blue Star Is One Of The Most Controversial, Hotly-Debated Military Operations In The World And A Turning Point In Contemporary Indian History. This Is An Account By The Army Officer Who Led It -- Touchingly Honest, Often Anguished, Minutely Detailed. It Hides Nothing -- Not The Unexpected Reverses Suffered By The Army, Nor Its Miscalculations, Nor The Grit And Determination Of The Militants It Was Assigned To Flush Out.

Author : Jon Wells
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780470738917

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Poison by Jon Wells Pdf

Canada's award-winning crime writer takes on a transatlantic serial killer One of six book-length stories published in the Hamilton Spectator, Poison is a riveting piece of crime reporting that won a National Newspaper Award in 2004. Chronicling the life and crimes of serial murderer Sukhwinder Dhillon, who coolly dispatched two wives, two twin infants, and a friend just for insurance money, Poison details the trail that stretched from Canada to India, the work of the insurance claims investigator and the detectives who suspected wrong-doing, the forensics that sealed Dhillon's fate, and the legal twists and turns of the double murder trial that followed.

Author : Mark Tully,Satish Jacob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : India
ISBN : 8129109174

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Amritsar by Mark Tully,Satish Jacob Pdf

Author : Mallika Kaur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030246747

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Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict by Mallika Kaur Pdf

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This book makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence—or ignored altogether. Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement: Baljit Kaur, who armed herself with a video camera to record essential evidence of the conflict; Justice Ajit Singh Bains, who became a beloved “people’s judge”; and Inderjit Singh Jaijee, who returned to Punjab to document abuses even as other elites were fleeing. Together, they are credited with saving countless lives. Braiding oral histories, personal snapshots, and primary documents recovered from at-risk archives, Kaur shows that when entire conflicts are marginalized, we miss essential stories: stories of faith, feminist action, and the power of citizen-activists.

Author : Autar S. Dhesi,Gurmail Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000087574

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Rural Development in Punjab by Autar S. Dhesi,Gurmail Singh Pdf

For many years, agricultural development in Punjab symbolised one of the most successful experiments in rural development. However, this success story seems to be going astray. The crux of the problem, this volume suggests, is that externally driven modernization to meet national food needs pushed Punjab into highly specialized production of wheat and rice, resulting in over-utilisation of natural resources with adverse environmental consequences that jeopardizing the long-term viability and sustainability of the agrarian economy. Stagnating productivity, reduced farm size, falling household incomes, depleting groundwater resources, are only a few of the problems that characterise Punjab’s agriculture today. The book establishes clearly that rural development implies more than transformation of traditional agriculture. Apart from ensuring efficient use of limited resources to sustain agricultural production, rural policy should encompass promotion of non-farm activities, investments in social and economic structure and civic amenities.

Author : Natasha Sharma
Publisher : Pratham books
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PKEY:54a45f86-b746-42ba-891f-cdd3856dc235

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Kaka and Munni: A Folktale from Punjab by Natasha Sharma Pdf

Kaka, the wicked crow, wants to eat Munni's eggs. But Munni is a very clever sparrow. And so are all the characters in this popular folktale from Punjab.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0670093602

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The Story of the Sikhs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zubair Ahmad
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771992817

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Grieving for Pigeons by Zubair Ahmad Pdf

In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling different eras of Lahore’s neighbourhoods and the communities that define them. These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions of this region’s history reverberate through the stories, evident in the characters, their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.

Author : Ilyas Chattha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316517956

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The Punjab Borderland by Ilyas Chattha Pdf

Offers insights into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed.

Author : Bhagat Singh
Publisher : Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Why I am an Atheist by Bhagat Singh Pdf

A discussion with a friend soon turned into a matter of self-assessment, leading to this discourse on why Bhagat Singh chose to be an atheist. Even in the face of death at a very young age, with uncanny observations and sharp questions, he forces us to re-think our foundations to faith in god.

Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9788122201079

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Land of Five Rivers by Khushwant Singh Pdf

Noted Indian writer and translator Khuswant Singh's tribute to 18 major Punjabi writers whose stories he has translated in this collection of short fiction. The writers included here are familiar names in India - writers such as Amrita Pritam, Saadat Hasan Manto, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, and also two new women writers, Ajeet Caur and Usha Mahajan - among others.

Author : Kanwar Pal Singh Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038370303

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Punjab, the Knights of Falsehood by Kanwar Pal Singh Gill Pdf

On the political insurgency in Punjab.

Author : Nirupama Dutt
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143068587

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Stories of the Soil by Nirupama Dutt Pdf

A story of the Soil is a collection of over forty classic Punjabi short stories. Combining a rich oral tradition of kissas with tropes from Western literature, Punjabi short-story writers have developed their own unique way of portraying love, longing, ecstasy and malice. Spanning a century, these stories talk of life in the village and the town. There are haunting tales about Partition like 'A Matter of Faith' by Gulzar Singh Sandhu where a horrible tragedy is viewed through the eyes of a child. Along with sensitive accounts of life from across the border in Pakistan are tales by the Dalits who until recently had been rendered voiceless. Amrita Pritam's 'The Vault', a metaphor for a barren womb, explores the identity of a Punjabi woman while stories like Surjit Birdi's 'Flies' reveals the concerns faced by the Punjabi diaspora. Translated and edited by Nirupama Dutt, these carefully selected stories reflect every aspect of life in the land of five rivers.