Two of my stories are among the exhibits at Newseum, the world’s biggest museum of Newspapers
One of them is on Kalpana Chawla, who graduated from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, which is also my alma matter, which grants a certain distinctiveness to this obituary.
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2018
Project Syndicate: Making Newspapers Great Again
Bangkok Post: Your food waste can power a thousand (or more) lightbulbs
ReliefWeb: When Disasters strike, Satellites come calling
Daily O: Remembering Kuldip Nayar, an uncompromising editor, a conscience-keeper and India-Pakistan peacenik
The Nation:
Is Trump Scaring Away International Students?
2017
Dawn: When Indira Gandhi was unseated by the judiciary
Daily O: Dipa, Usha, Milkha: Is India in love with the 4th place at Olympics?
What climate negotiators in Paris forgot – 10 reasons why Trump is an extreme event
A to Z of Punjab, politics and polls
2016
Delhi homeowners shut doors on Muslim tenants: UN varsity study
Why Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, and not Taimur, is the best Indian name
How demonetisation could stop Indian students from studying abroad
Why is Manmohan’s Sri Sri connection important for White House?
Why it’s hard to believe a meteorite killed Tamil Nadu man
Francois Hollande’s visit to Chandigarh’s Rock Garden will evoke memories of India’s Partition
2015
Sundar Pichai is from IIT, routine or surprising?
Why Indian submission at Paris Climate Change Conference is unique
Hark world leaders! Pole-to-Paris mission spreads message on climate change
Why US is seeing a 30 per cent jump in Indian students
Is that Ravana guarding the Thailand airport?
India and China must not take Paris Climate Conference lightly
Thailand’s Museum of Corruption shames everyone, and no one
Punjab’s Malerkotla memorial symbolises the violent divide over meat ban
When Vajpayee got Nawaz Sharif to speak to Dilip Kumar
Why we need to worry about the Grey Wolves of Turkey
How social media ‘sleuths’ are killing the Bangkok bombings probe
Bangkok bombings: An internal conspiracy or external terror?
Spock’s Indian Connect: The Sikh Diaspora Again
Spice of life: Remembering five-point-five someone
2014
Change head!!8 Indians pale in comparison with 163 Chinese in list of highly-cited researchers
Thailand’s Indians hope for stability, peace after coup
Pritam Singh lone Punjabi winner in Singapore elections
Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew’s Punjab link
2008
Wheat selling below support price, puts govt in a quandary
Food prices could decline as global rice output grows by 1%
Former Punjab CM Amarinder expelled from assembly
Haryana, Punjab in face-off over Sikh shrines
PepsiCo to roll out weather insurance for farmers in 10 states
Akali Dal delinks nuke pact from trust vote, to go with NDA
India’s food bowl to get limited waiver benefits
Labour scarcity promotes use of transplanters in Punjab
For India’s cotton farmers, early rains could spell disaster
India could be net importer by 2020
No ray of hope as paddy sowing costs shoot up in Punjab
Novel based on the life of CPM’s Surjeet may kick up a storm
Rains hit Himachal’s apple crop
Colder and longer winter boosts wheat production in Punjab
In rural Punjab, drinking water is becoming a silent killer: study
BJP tries to expand reach in rural Punjab, goes up against Akali Dal
2005
2004
Spring in the autumn of the patriarch
1998
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