Amandeep Sandhu » Prakash Singh Badal https://www.amandeepsandhu.com Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:10:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Scroll: How ‘Udta Punjab’ grounded the wily Parkash Singh Badal https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=979 https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=979#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2016 04:03:27 +0000 aman http://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=979 Friends, Scroll.in has been kind to ask me to elaborate my yesterday’s post. I discuss how the Badals tame Punjab and what they should have done instead of perpetuating denial. The task is still ahead of anyone who wants to come into power in Punjab in the next elections.

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]]> https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?feed=rss2&p=979 0 Open Letter to Prakash Singh Badal – Daljit Ami https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=832 https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=832#comments Sun, 31 May 2015 07:27:59 +0000 aman http://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=832 Friends, if you want to understand Punjab, read this letter. Observe how the powers that be use multiple methods to silence people: they appropriate the meaning of language, turn public infrastructure towards their own private gains, favor the coterie, create their fiefdom, use coercion and compensation to divide people such that voices can’t rise in opposition … Yet, the people of Punjab will speak, they will ask questions.

An open letter to Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh by Daljit Ami. Translated by me.

‘Does your qualification, of being India’s most experienced chief minister, now stand dwarfed in front of your son’s business acumen?’

It is a bit long, bear with us. India Punjab is now a small state, its problems have very long histories.

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