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WRITING ON THE WALL

Sunday 6 April '08

The bodies of trader Mam Chand Singla and eight of his family were recovered from the Bhakra Canal this past week—almost three weeks after they disappeared.
Sharing stage with Dalai Lama, US House Speaker tears into China

Saturday 22 March '08

Calling the crisis in Tibet ‘‘a challenge to the conscience of the world’’, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives...
WINTER IN INDIA, SUMMERS IN LHASA

Sunday 23 March '08

Born in exile in McLeodganj, these young people have never seen their country—but they have kept alive the desire of one day going back to a free Tibet. The Sunday Express meets young Tibetans who cherish both the country of their birth and the homeland of their heart
‘Except for China, the whole world trusts me’

Friday 21 March '08

A day before US Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives here, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said he was open to talks with Chinese premier Hu Jintao...
Dalai Lama counters Beijing: will quit if Tibetans turn violent

Wednesday 19 March '08

Even as bands of sloganeering protesters, some with blood-red paint smeared on their faces, took over this little Tibet...
Feeling sorry for Indian hockey? Start rooting for Canada at Beijing

Friday 14 March '08

India may have failed to clinch a hockey berth at the Olympics but there will be a fair Indian representation...
Corn in a Soup

Friday 14 March '08

It will prove fatal for diversification in Punjab.” Shivcharan Singh Brar, a young, progressive farmer from Phullanwala...
Flashback: 36 years

Sunday 9 March '08

Years after he left home, Kashmir Singh comes back to his village to discover it has moved on
Together 36 yrs later, Kashmir’s wife says he sounds the same

Wednesday 5 March '08

‘I always knew he would come back safe. I never had any doubts, not even for a minute’
Kakajis to the fore

Tuesday 5 February '08

The recent elevation of Faridkot MP and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s son Sukhbir Singh Badal to the...
Natural-born farmers

Friday 4 January '08

It’s a cheerful field, glistening with myriad shades of green, at Chaina village in Faridkot district of Punjab.
Sukh Ram: The telecom years

Saturday 15 December '07

When 83-year-old Sukh Ram, the oldest legislator in the country...
Rain and rallies

Wednesday 12 December '07

The turnout was impressive considering the rain didn’t relent. Drenched in the season’s first showers...
STANDING TALL

Sunday 4 November '07

A new physiotherapy centre at the Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre has helped jawans fight back their disabilities
A TOAST FOR THE CHIEF

Sunday 7 October '07

As General Deepak Kapoor takes over as the new army chief, students at a Sainik school in Haryana dream big
Notes from Far East

Sunday 30 September '07

A small community of Koreans brings strains of Bach and Beethoven to the heart of bhangra country. And Mohali seems to be loving it
Selling a slice of village life

Friday 28 September '07

What was once Bollywood’s pastoral passion—green fields, frolicking farmers,
LAKE PLACID

Sunday 15 July '07

Be prepared for nature to spring surprises at every turn on the road from Leh to Pangong lake. After you have driven up 4,220 metres, you’ll know it was worth taking the plunge
Berry, berry useful

Friday 6 July '07

Till a few years back, seabuckthorn was just another thorny bush. Today, everything from its fruits to its roots has high nutrition value
At 35000 Feet, Life’s A Breeze

Sunday 17 June '07

Mamta Sachdeva, 24, has come a long way—from an impoverished childhood in a two-room Moga tenement to a high-flying airline job and a plush pad in Abu Dhabi. She’s part of a swelling tribe of small town Punjab girls reaching for the skies as cabin crew training schools proliferate in the state
Proxy deaths

Sunday 6 May '07

It was in 1993 that militancy in Punjab was declared over, its skeletons buried. Last fortnight, some of them came tumbling out. Militants who were supposed to have been killed by the police during the brutal decade resurfaced. Their ‘return’ gave a new edge to a question that families of men who disappeared have been asking for years: Who were the men killed in place of these militants?Our correspondent reports on the other side of encounter killings and on the families groping for answers
Natural Born Migrants

Sunday 29 April '07

Last week, Paramjit Kaur took an unusual route to fly to Canada by piggybacking on an MP. Every week in Punjab, someone tries a more audacious route for a similar journey. Even families of Malta victims have put India’s worst migration tragedy behind them and sent their sons out again on dangerous voyages.
Tapping into the retail magic

Friday 27 April '07

Nikka Singh Aulakh of Kup Kalan village, patriarch of the Aulkah family, may be hard of hearing, but his brain is razor sharp.
The journey to nowhere

Sunday 22 April '07

Amarjeet Singh paid Rs 8 lakh to an agent to smuggle him from Jalandhar to Spain. A year later, he is back—lucky to be alive and looking for the agent
Govt wheat pricing is such that farmers are barely breaking even

Friday 13 April '07

Not only does the Government not reward the farmer for the quality of his wheat crop, its determination of the Minimum Support Price...
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