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E D I T O R I A L
Rituals All
 India
seems to have mastered the art of turning everything into a ritual. It
may be religion or politics. Other institutions like birth, marriage
and even death are part of grand rituals. Quickly the substance is
lost and ceremonies take over, at times turning these into a farce.
India has been home to world’s grand religions, worship of nature in
its raw powers, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism besides
several other small religions. More
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President
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| ANALYSIS |
Winter
of Despair as Prices Rise
Gobind Thukral
ON July 29 last
year our Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had faced complete
isolation as the entire opposition, but even supporting parties
from the Left walked out from Lok Sabha protesting against the
steep price rise.Chidambaram also drew flak from Congress
backbenchers. More
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| In an Ideological Vacuum
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Gobind Thukral
IN a
few weeks time, Punjab’s voters will have a chance to elect
another government. It is a privilege that democracy offers them
so often. Side by side they would be coaxed, cajoled and offered
almost everything under the sun. Money, caste, religion and clan
politics would be in full display Observers of Punjab’s
political landscape are asserting that this would be one of the
costliest elections so far. More |
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| HISTORY |
Punjabi Muslims and
Creation of Pakistan- 4
Professor J.S. Grewal
Jinnah
was quick to see the importance of the Punjabi Muslims for
the All-India Muslim League in its struggle against the
Congress. He was able to persuade Sikandar Hayat to form a
Pact with him. More |
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FEATURES |
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The
Plight of the Poor
Vinod Anand
 IT is stated that the poor pay higher
prices for (non-branded) commodities of daily use like
vegetables, pulses, legumes, ad do the marginal poor farmers
with the small land holdings. The reason they have less
income (liquidity/cash) than others, and hence lesser buying
power. More
BOOK:
ANTI-COLONIAL ANGST
Atamjit Singh
 Gopal
Singh Chandan – A Short Biography & Memoirs by Amarjit
Chandan. Centre for Migration Studies, Lyallpur Khalsa
College Jalandhar, Punjab – India
Punjab
Centre for Migration Studies has published 5 booklets to
"highlight the lives of overseas Punjabis who have
either made a substantial contribution to the society in
which they have settled or have played a vital role in
building Diaspora Punjabi communities' institutional
infrastructure". More
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LITERATURE
Exile and Kingdom
Dr. Jaspal Singh
HUMAN beings speak thousands of
languages, and many more thousands dialects and socio-lects.
Punjabi, incidentally is one of the major languages of
the world. But the literary output in this language does
not commensurate with the number of its speakers. There
have been very few Punjabi poets who can be reckoned
among the outstanding world poets. More
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| COMMENT |
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‘National and Grassroots Perspectives’
 PAUL and Ramashray Roy’s third co-edited
election book-- India’s 2004 Elections: National and
Grassroots Perspectives published by Sage Publication’s is
out. Two American scholars and old friends of India, Paul
Wallace & Robin Remington Wallace from Columbia
toured India from November 23-December 20, 2006 but not just
to introduce the awaited book. More
No to G M Foods
Several
prominent scientists, agriculture experts and concerned
senior citizens have urged Dr. Man Mohan Singh, Prime
Minister of India to save the farming from the onslaught of
genetically modified foods. In
a memorandum signed by scores of public men, it was stated, “
Indian rice, vegetables and feed crops are now seriously under threat of
almost certain contamination from genetically engineered seeds. More
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| LETTERS |
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DEAR Editors South
Asia Post:
I have read the latest issue of South Asia Post (# 31). I appreciate your
efforts very much and like the whole matter of this issue especially
the articles named Editorial, Focus and Analysis. More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Controversy
on Women’s Rights
Joginder Singh Toor
Supreme
Court judgment in S.R.Batra’s case has stirred an other
controversy on women’s rights granted recently under the
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act,2005. Does it
nullify their rights?. Is a big question. Way
back in 1987 the Supreme Court of India in Atma Devi’s case
observed that “In England the rights of the spouses to the
matrimonial home are governed by the Matrimonial Homes Act,1967,
no such right exists in India.” More
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| CULTURE |
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Punjabi Film Music: Sardul Kwatra and his Soulful
Music
Harjap Singh Aujla
 Sometimes
I feel that there are several important aspects of the history of Punjab,
which have gone unrecorded. Although Punjabi pop music is currently
dominating the musical scene of India, yet no one has taken pains to
discover the pioneering times of its mother, the folk and light Punjabi
music. More
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The Dynamics of Sikh Diaspora since Independence-2
[South
Asia Post is happy to publish the synopsis in two parts of the “Sixth Bhai Chanan Singh Memorial Lecture” on ‘The Dynamics of Sikh
Diaspora since Independence’ delivered by Ambassador Bal Anand, IFS
(Retd.) on 9th Nov. 2006, at Bhai Vir Singh Sahyat Sadan, New Delhi.] More
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