Dear Friends,
Pheroze Vincent from The Telegraph spoke to me yesterday about AAP’s nominations to Rajya Sabha from Panjab. Notice AAP is facing internal criticism as well.
Please read …
Archive for March, 2022
Dear Friends,
I was intrigued when Sumana Roy and Kunal Ray started their oneating website. In the past Sumana and I have cooked some projects together but they never materialised. In October, when Sumana asked me for an article on the Langar at the Farm Protest, I was happy it would be featured on oneating. Sukhjit Singh contributed massively to the article. Thank you!
The Farmers Protests were suspended in December ’21, but I am glad oneating has still featured this article, not only in English but translated into Panjabi by Jashan Preet Kaur and Hindi by Vandana Rag. Thank you so much. Through the protests I saw how Jaskaran Singh Rana’s photographs brought the events home and thanks to Gurdeep Dhaliwal, I am so glad JK Photography has contributed to the essay. Kunal has cared immensely for the essays. Thank you!
I think such documentation would be important when future activists and scholars try to map and learn from the largest protests in the history of the world.
Please click on these links to read:
Dear Friends,
in the last 30 years since school, I have never taken a physical education class. I have walked a fair bit in my life, I am a walker, but have studiously stayed away from anything more than that much exercise. I am middle-aged now, stout; I do not care much for what I wear, how I look. I am food agnostic. Yet, one October morning last year, I enrolled for BARPS – a somatic technique conceptualised by dancer and somatic master Navtej Johar.
Here is my experience. Please read …
Dear Friends,
I know, many like me are stunned at Panjab’s choice. This is for you. We are trying to keep dialogue going.
G Sampat from The Hindu spoke to me about AAP’s tremendous win in Panjab. Here are my views on the present and the future of the party which will now govern Panjab. I believe the Panjabis are a robust people but bad politicking over decades has placed Panjab in a precarious place and hope through better governance and development AAP provides the healing touch the state needs.
Please listen, 29 minutes, English.
Dear Friends,
it was my pleasure yesterday to join Prof Surinder Singh Jodhka on a panel discussion for Punjab Television on AAP forming the new government in Panjab.
Please see here …
Dear Friends,
Ravi Kaushal from News Click spoke to me and others on elections results.
Here are our views …
Dear Friends,
Prajakta Joshi from Indie Journal asked me my views on the elections. Here is the recording with others. My section is: minutes 15.37 to 19.57 – English.
Please listen to link here …
Dear Friends,
after the election results were out, yesterday Ashutosh Sharma from Outlook Magazine asked if it Panjab had voted pro-AAP. I differed. Other experts also spoke.
Please read my views here …
Dear Friends,
on election result day, as the numbers were emerging, Woke Malayalam asked me for my comments.
Please read, they are here …