by Shashwati Talukdar and Diditi Mitra Faculty Housing Hallway, Punjab Agricultural University Part I Punjab is perhaps the state that best

by Shashwati Talukdar Religious practices have a way of spilling out of prescribed boundaries. The figure on the poster of Shri Chand, in the front

Jalandhar bus stop by Diditi Mitra Posters of the film ’47 to 84’ were difficult to ignore if one was traveling in Punjab in the summer of 2014.

by Shashwati Talukdar & Diditi Mitra This week we will not be updating the Punjab Journal. This week marks thirty two years since the pogrom

by Shashwati Talukdar The busy bus inter-state bus stop in Jalandhar has a tiny triangle of a park. Not very user friendly, it has a forlorn statue

by Shashwati Talukdar Across from the Press club of Jalandhar is a pavement tea stall, the first thing that was open, a place where we could get

by Diditi Mitra Bus stop, Jalandhar A call to follow Jesus Christ: “Prabhu Isu Masih-ji da pukar” says the Gurmukhi script. The script in

by Shashwati Talukdar Getting a music list This taxi driver epitomizes our aural experience of the state. Everywhere we went, it seemed we were

by Shashwati Talukdar On the way to Jalandhar from Ludhiana, our kind and talkative taxi driver suddenly grew quiet and said just one word,

by Diditi Mitra and Shashwati Talukdar On the bus to Rara Sahib Our visit with Balbir Singh ji (see previous post) to Rara Sahib Gurdwara in

by Shashwati Talukdar Jass at his Kathi Roll stand in the Hualien night market We heard a miraculous story in Ludhiana. And this is how it came

by Shashwati Talukdar An airplane on top of a large house, a horse, a football, even a body builder — these are water tanks.

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