The Rajiv Longowal Accord: The Peace That Never Arrived
Chandigarh, waters, the Sarkaria reference, compensation for 1984: the Punjab Accord of July 1985 addressed nearly every grievance on paper. Its signatory was assassinated within a month, and its clauses failed one by one.
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Operation Woodrose: The Sweep Through Rural Punjab
The army sweep through Punjab's villages after Blue Star detained thousands of young Sikh men, produced the notorious Amritdhari circular, and drove a generation across the border into ISI camps. The insurgency's least documented chapter.
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After the Fire: The Survivors of November 1984 and Their Forty Year Fight
The relief camps, the Widow Colony of Tilak Vihar, ten commissions, the Sajjan Kumar conviction, and the forty year legal fight: what happened to the survivors of November 1984 after the fires went out.
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Satluj: The Film That Waited Three Years to Tell Punjab What It Already Knew
Satluj, formerly Punjab 95, is finally streaming on ZEE5. Here is the story of the film, Jaswant Singh Khalra, and the thousands who disappeared during Punjab's insurgency years.
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The Vanished Cities: Unearthing the Indus Valley Civilization
Long before Rome raised its first wall or Athens debated in its agora, a civilization was already thriving along the banks of a great river system in the northw
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Aryan Invasion or Aryan Migration: The Theory That Divided Historians
Few subjects in the study of ancient India provoke as much passion, debate and outright controversy as the question of who the Aryans were and how they came to
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The Saraswati Mystery: Chasing a River That Vanished From Maps
Among the many rivers praised in the hymns of the Rig Veda, one stands above all others in reverence and poetic beauty. The Saraswati is described as the mighti
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Voices From the Rig Veda: Life in Ancient India Five Thousand Years Ago
Imagine a world lit only by fire and starlight, where the boundary between the sacred and the everyday barely existed, where a family's wealth was measured in c
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Harappa and Mohenjodaro: Engineering Marvels Before Their Time
When British engineers laying railway tracks through the Punjab in the nineteenth century stumbled upon ancient bricks scattered across mounds near a village ca
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The Mauryan Empire: India’s First Great Unification
Before the Mauryan Empire rose to prominence in the fourth century BCE, the Indian subcontinent had never known political unification on such a massive scale. D
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