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Amritsar Calling: At the receiving end of nature’s fury provoked by men

August 31, 2023 11:41 am

Blaming it on the weather gods is naivety at best. After all, we are the ones who have not respected the territorial integrity of the floodplains, writes Gunbir Singh.

Amritsar Calling: Come, take a flight from the Holy City

August 24, 2023 10:02 am

From an Air Deccan flight in 2003 to flights to UK, Europe, SE Asia and Down Under, Amritsar has come a long way

Amritsar Calling: The bakery capital of Punjab

May 26, 2023 9:05 am

Shakti Chand’s brass and rubber squeeze horn has announced his arrival in neighbourhoods for the last 47 years. He shuffles his duties, as the deliverer of confection mornings and evenings, with his ‘sarkari’ job at the Punjab Civil Supplies Department during the daytime.

Holy City: The seat of philanthropy

July 13, 2022 12:03 pm

Gunbir Singh writes: Bhagat Puran Singh was a frequent visitor to our family home. One would find him sometimes sitting on the marble steps of our patio reading or writing

Amritsar Calling: What’s in a name

June 22, 2022 10:35 am

Meanwhile the ‘Naamkarans,’ the naming ceremonies continue. Amongst the Sikhs when a child is born, the first visible alphabet upon opening the Holy Book, the Guru Granth Sahib, is the one with which the name shall begin.

Amritsar Calling: Holy city where happiness index shoots through the roof

June 15, 2022 12:35 pm

There is an air of celebration, joie de vivre if one may, an exuberance in our social milieu and in our living style which leaves the outsider a bit taken aback.

Amritsar Calling: A garden city with a green thumb

June 01, 2022 11:22 am

Amritsar was a city of many gardens, and during the days of the Khalsa Sarkar early 19th century, the sardars of the Misls had many garden estates that caressed its circumference.

Amritsar Calling: A city that boasts of a fabric, both beautiful and strong

May 26, 2022 1:19 pm

The fabric of the loom and the fabric of society have held firm in the Holy City. From shawls and carpets to Phulkari and tweeds, Amritsar’s tryst with textiles continues even today

Amritsar Calling: With summer here, can the Mango Party be far behind?

May 11, 2022 2:53 pm

From Alphonsos and Safedaa to Sindoori and Langrah, the 'Katle Aam' season has just begun.

Amritsar Calling: A city of many brews, some elevating, some heady

May 04, 2022 10:38 am

Amritsaris have made it big with the humble tea leaf. These select families perfected the blending tech, the craft of mixing the expensive fragrant Darjeeling ones with the robust Assamica blacks and throwing in some of the lesser ones to improve the economy of the trade.