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Season of spring spells hope as the soul sings forgotten songs

India, March 24 -- Music certainly was food for the soul the past week, witnessing two soulful events from Chandigarh to Amritsar, playing on the melodies that make the journey of life, with all its u... Read More


Roundabout: Spring spells hope as the heart hums forgotten songs

India, March 24 -- Music certainly was food for the soul the past week, witnessing two soulful events from Chandigarh to Amritsar, playing on the melodies that make the journey of life, with all its u... Read More


Internet apocalypse & return of swinging 70s

India, March 10 -- Lolling about in the drawing room, my daughter and I, after dinner returned to browsing our mobile phones at leisure. I took a short break to make a cup of black coffee and had just... Read More


Those were the days, my friend!

India, Feb. 25 -- Who was Lali? Why do the lovers of art and literature hark back to him so often? These are the questions asked very often. The answer to these queries is never too easy. If one goes ... Read More


Roundabout: Those were the days, my friend!

India, Feb. 25 -- Who was Lali? Why do the lovers of art and literature hark back to him so often? These are the questions asked very often. The answer to these queries is never too easy. If one goes ... Read More


Head 'Back to the Roots' with artist Kanwal Dhaliwal

Chandigarh, Feb. 17 -- Memory has constantly fought forgetting in the works of Kanwal Dhaliwal, a young man who came to the city from Malout in the Malwa region of Punjab, to follow his passion for sc... Read More


3 authors, one vision, a change for better

India, Feb. 11 -- It was by chance that one came across a thick book written by a young writer from Punjab. A telephone call from the revered Punjabi poet Surjit Patar - who was curating a session for... Read More


Roundabout: The temple and the mosque as seen by poets, lovers and wise minds

India, Jan. 28 -- Love, hope and concern for humanity at large are at the very core of literature, across languages and cultures. There is no room for hate in literature for if that emotion was to see... Read More


Roundabout: When literature becomes balm for women who love too much

India, Jan. 14 -- Memories have a strange habit of turning up on cold winter nights tucked in a quilt and this time it is a conversation in a women's room that comes back to the mind, sitting with poe... Read More


How Basant ban ushered in Lohri gaiety among Punjabis settled in Pakistan

Chandigarh, Jan. 13 -- The 2007 ban on the spring festival of Basant in Pakistan saw the loss of the joyous kite flying that the Lahoris loved. Done in the name of law and order, many felt that it was... Read More