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Punjab Panorama: July 2014
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Tuesday, July 8. A Caricature of Pain. Trying to tell the story of mothers who lost their sons in the period it shows, would always have been risky. The filmmaker covers that risk with terrible non-realism. But the casualty is not merely ‘factuality’. Much more can be discounted in pursuit of a commercial success. What it takes toll on is something much more precious and fragile. That would, perhaps, be asking for too much...
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Punjab Panorama: A Caricature of Pain
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Tuesday, July 8. A Caricature of Pain. Trying to tell the story of mothers who lost their sons in the period it shows, would always have been risky. The filmmaker covers that risk with terrible non-realism. But the casualty is not merely ‘factuality’. Much more can be discounted in pursuit of a commercial success. What it takes toll on is something much more precious and fragile. That would, perhaps, be asking for too much...
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Punjab Panorama: March 2012
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Wednesday, March 14. Ranjha became a Jogi when he had seemingly renounced the world after Heer's marriage to someone else. Dwelling at Guru Gorakhnath’s hill headquarters here he still saw the face of his beloved and her phulkari flying in the air. The kali,. ਟਿਲੇ ਤੋਂ. ਦੀਂਹਦੀ ਏ. ਹੀਰ ਦੀ. Made famous by Kuldip Manak, talked of this Tilla. Peak) in Pakistan, now known as Tilla Jogian. There is also other significance to Tilla...
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Punjab Panorama: Remembering leftists who died opposing terrorism in Punjab
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Monday, July 8. Remembering leftists who died opposing terrorism in Punjab. Many leftist activists who died opposing religious fanaticism and terrorism in Punjab remain forgotten. Gurpreet Singh. Remembers them as he talks to relatives of some of these who have made their homes in capitalist countries like Canada and U.S. to earn better livelihoods. Critics argue that this was all a result of the cocktail of religion and p...
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Punjab Panorama: April 2012
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Monday, April 30. Long after Bhindranwale raised the bogey of discrimination against Sikhs in the army, and it was demolished by our most distinguished Sikh soldiers, we did hear it raised again but a PIL tried to revive fears long buried by giving communal twist to naming of next Army chief until the apex court threw it out, writes. In his regular column National Interest. In The Indian Express. 8220;Why Russian commandos?
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Punjab Panorama: Punjab’s tree man leaves behind a green legacy
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Sunday, July 7. Punjab’s tree man leaves behind a green legacy. Gurdev Singh had earned the sobriquet “Trivenian Wala Baba” for planting Trivenis, a cluster of three trees — peepal, banyan and neem, writes Jatinder Preet. Gurdev Singh at his village few days before he died. Jagsir Singh, a school teacher and neighbour of the Baba said that some village youth gifted him a bicycle to travel around when they saw his dedicatio...
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Punjab Panorama: Sikh art gaining ground at global auctions
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Tuesday, July 9. Sikh art gaining ground at global auctions. Artworks categorised as ‘Sikh Art’ are being featured increasingly in leading art-house auctions, writes. Gouache heightened with gold on paper, 1850, Christie's. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). IT'S NOT AN AFFAIR. ਇਟਸ ਨਾੱਟ ਐਨ ਅਫੇਅਰ. Sikh art gaining ground at global auctions. Remembering leftists who died opposing terrorism i. Kashmiri Sikh, not a Punjabi.
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Punjab Panorama: July 2012
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Thursday, July 5. Bhangra Nation and Punjabi Identity. The collective experience of Punjabi nationness may be negotiated in the interstices, in the overlap between Hindu, Sikh and Muslim difference,. Writes Anjali Gera Roy in. Journal of Punjab Studies. Khizar Hayat Tiwana, one of the staunch critics of the two nation theory, was the leader of the Punjab Union as the Indian subcontinent was being divided, speaking in 1964).
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Punjab Panorama: December 2013
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Wednesday, December 25. ਅਸੀਂ ਭੁੱਕੀ ਦੇ ਬਣੇ ਆਂ. Desperate drug-addicts of some villages around Lehragaga in Sangrur district came together to protest when supply of their daily dose of opium and poppy husk was curtailed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). IT'S NOT AN AFFAIR. ਇਟਸ ਨਾੱਟ ਐਨ ਅਫੇਅਰ. ਅਸੀਂ ਭੁੱਕੀ ਦੇ ਬਣੇ ਆਂ. Promote Your Page Too. ਓ ਮੀਆਂ' by Shameel. Home of the pointless. Villager in the city. घर में हो!
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Punjab Panorama: June 2013
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Society - Art - Culture - Literature - Politics - Media - Environment - Et cetera. Sunday, June 30. Watercolour in paper, 1860 by unknown artist in the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Victoria and Albert Museum. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). IT'S NOT AN AFFAIR. ਇਟਸ ਨਾੱਟ ਐਨ ਅਫੇਅਰ. Promote Your Page Too. ਓ ਮੀਆਂ' by Shameel. Home of the pointless. Villager in the city. घर में हो! Send your submissions for publication to pbpanorama@gmail.com.