KPS Gill: The Supercop Who Never Surrendered
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill took charge of a Punjab in psychological collapse and broke the deadliest insurgency in independent India's history. The story of the supercop who never blinked.
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Blood in the Satluj: The Terror Punjab Chose to Forget
The killings of Hindus in Punjab, the bus and train massacres, and how KPS Gill broke the Khalistani insurgency form a history that the modern retelling of Punjab has quietly edited out.
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Punjab at Peace: What Reconciliation Would Actually Require
The count completed in every column, the narrative assembled, consequence proportioned to what remains actionable, and the grievances of 1982 finally settled: the four components of Punjab's reckoning, and the series' closing argument.
Read MoreWhat the Textbooks Skip: Teaching the Punjab Years to a New Generation
A sentence on Blue Star, a clause on the riots, and nothing on the fifteen years: the curricular silence on the Punjab era, the unsupervised channels filling it, and what teaching the catastrophe honestly would require.
Read MorePolicing After Gill: Reform, Impunity and the Long Shadow
Returned to ordinary duties with the era's habits, personnel and protections aboard, never audited and never refounded: Punjab Police after Gill, the reform that stayed on paper, and the double entry the institution is owed and denied.
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The Drug Shadow: Did the Insurgency Era Seed Punjab’s Epidemic
The insurgency built the smuggling road, corrupted its protection, and wounded a generation; a later economics supplied the demand. The honest genealogy of Punjab's drug epidemic, between the era's mythologies and its official denials.
Read MorePunjab’s Economy After the Guns: From Granary to Crisis
A real war wound and a policy trap the war did not dig: the extraction and flight the insurgency cost, the monoculture and missed liberalisation it did not cause, and the alibi function the era serves in Punjab's economics since.
Read MoreThe Radicalisation Debate: Separating Grievance from Separatism
Grievance is not separatism, religiosity is not radicalism, memory is not mobilisation, and the fringe is not the community: the distinctions the radicalisation debate erases, what vigilance legitimately watches, and the economics underneath.
Read MoreReferendum 2020 and After: The Khalistan Question Today
Unaudited diaspora plebiscites, the Amritpal episode and its sympathy vote, drones and designations at the edges, and no measurable constituency in Punjab itself: the Khalistan question today, assessed without inflation or innocence.
Read MoreThe Diaspora and the Politics of Memory
Two remembered eras diverging from one record: how the diaspora's curated memory of 1984 became referendum politics, then statecraft, from gurdwara calendars to the Nijjar affair, and why only an assembled ledger answers a curated one.
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