Women in the Insurgency Years: Widows, Mothers and the Missing Half of the Record
Widowed by every side, regulated and targeted by the codes, leveraged in the interrogations, and then, in the aftermath, the habeas petitioners and testimony builders who forced the counting: the women's half of Punjab's record, entered deliberately.
Read MoreThe Villages That Fought Back: Defence Committees and Rural Resistance
Night pickets, shotgun licences and gurdwara loudspeakers turned alarm systems: the village defence committees made the population's turn visible and armed. Their courage, their effectiveness, their manipulation, and their excesses, entered together.
Read MoreWhy the Militancy Collapsed: Five Forces That Ended the Insurgency
From the bloodiest year of the conflict to effective extinction in under three years: the population's turn, the campaign, the fratricide, the reopened ballot and the hollowed cause, ranked in the order the record supports.
Read MoreThe Assassination of Beant Singh, August 1995
A human bomb in police uniform killed the chief minister and sixteen others at the Chandigarh secretariat on August 31, 1995. The Babbar Khalsa operation, the Rajoana case that ran three decades, and why the bomb changed nothing.
Read MoreBeant Singh: The Chief Minister of the Endgame
An unglamorous Congress veteran took a fraction of a mandate in 1992, gave the endgame its political cover, presided over the militancy's collapse and the campaign's costs alike, and predicted accurately what the signature would cost him.
Read MoreThe 1992 Elections: A Vote Held at Gunpoint
Turnout under twenty four percent, an Akali boycott, militant death threats against voters and the largest security deployment in Indian electoral history: the February 1992 election, its two contested readings, and what the safe polls that followed…
Read MoreThe Diaspora Factor: Money, Ideology and Khalistan Abroad
Treasury, propaganda arm and sanctuary for hundreds; grieving remitters and eventual rejectors in their millions. The Sikh diaspora's real role in the Khalistan years, and the asymmetry that keeps exile politics alive after Punjab moved on.
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Morocco Advances to Quarterfinals with 3-0 Win Over Canada
Morocco secured a decisive 3-0 victory over World Cup co host Canada in the FIFA World Cup Round of 16, advancing confidently to the quarterfinals. Ounahi's double highlighted the commanding performance.
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The Assassination of Indira Gandhi and the November 1984 Carnage
The assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 was answered with three days of organised slaughter that killed thousands of Sikhs. The evidence, the impunity, and what the pogrom did to Punjab.
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Operation Blue Star: June 1984 and Its Terrible Arithmetic
The decision, the battle for the Akal Takht, the tanks in the parikrama, the contested count of the dead, and the shockwave that led to an assassination and an insurgency: Operation Blue Star examined in full.
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