Food Court Plan For Amritsar Posted by preetasr in City News, Amritsar: THE LOCAL administration has drawn up a plan to bring together the traditional Amritsari Kitchen for tourists visiting the city. The food court will serve local cuisine and more, without the circuitous hunt down the city’s narrow by lanes. Apart from the Harmandar [...]
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- ND Tiwari ‘Sower’ ? or a Vicky ‘Donor’? ………By Rashmi Talwar May 25, 2012AMRITSAR: Days have turned hot in Capital Delhi, and clammy hot for a veteran congress leader, having nightmarish dreams, breaking out in cold sweat, for having being strained to part with a single phial of his precious blood or face its forceful parting ! It is by the order of Delhi High Court that the [...]Saanjh
- Jammu & Kashmir Interlocator’s Report in the Open ! By Saanjh May 24, 2012J&K-InterlocatorsRpt-0512 THE ABOVE IS THE ENTIRE INTERLOCUTOR’S REPORT IN PDF FORMAT http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/interlocutors-suggest-review-of-statute-provisions-in-jammu-and-kashmir/1/197336.html Filed under: AMRITSAR, India-Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, LAHORE Tagged: Dilip Pangaonkar, interlocuter's report, Jammu & Kashmir, MM […]Saanjh
- A tireless crusader /Courage & conviction/ by Rashmi Talwar May 12, 2012Courage & conviction A tireless crusader As a young girl of barely twenty years in 1946, Kunti Paul set out to do social service and remained committed to the AIWC as member of the standing committee for nearly 40 years. That however did not deter her from lending her expertise and enthusiasm to other prominent [...]Saanjh
- Honeymoon again, Tulips again —-By Rashmi Talwar May 3, 2012Honeymoon again, Tulips again By Rashmi Talwar It is not a joke. Advertisements offering honeymoon packages to Kashmir have started to pop on our virtual windows. Charles Darwin had once said ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’ It has taken [...]Saanjh
- Lahore’s Rashid Rana Puts Us In Our Place….. BY NAYANTARA KILACHAND April 11, 2012Viewers find a certain delight in the works of Rashid Rana. The Pakistani artist is primarily known for his style of stitching together thousands of digital images of deliberate provocation to form a single image of seeming innocuousness. Take for instance, his “Veil Series”, where pixellated images of porn were placed mosaic-style to form images [...]Saanjh
- The Partition of Territory, Not Hearts —by Vaneet Kundra April 6, 2012by Vaneet Kundra THE Partition of India ranks, beyond a doubt, as one of the 10 greatest tragedies in human history. It was not inevitable. India’s independence was inevitable; but preservation of its unity was a prize that, in our plural society, required high statesmanship. That was in short supply. A mix of other reasons [...]Saanjh
- German Mx Doner Cuisine comes to Amritsar April 2, 2012By Saanjh The city of Amritsar, also known throughout the world as the taste capital of India, has attracted a Germany-based restaurateur Madam M Anske make space for a German restaurant here. During the opening of the joint ‘Mx Doner’, located at district shopping centre in Ranjit Avenue- Anske said under this name she would [...]Saanjh
- Performing Seva Winning Hearts:Pakistan’s Depty AG cleans shoes & utensils at Golden Temple March 28, 2012Nothing wins hearts more than True Humility….. Saanjh.wordpress.com Performing Seva Winning Hearts:Pakistan’s Depty AG cleans shoes & utensils at Golden Temple By Neeraj Bagga Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Khurshid Khan polishes shoes during a visit to the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Tuesday. photo: vishal kumar Amritsar, March […]Saanjh
- BETWEEN AMRITSAR & LAHORE by Dr. Manohar Singh Gill MP Rajya Sabha March 19, 2012When I was a little boy in Tarn Taran, a doggerel known to every Punjabi was oft quoted: “The man who has not been to Lahore, is not born”. A second lesser known, but often said in verbal jousts ran: The Donkey has been to Lahore, and now puts on airs. I hadn’t been to [...]Saanjh
- Bol- ‘Bold’ By Rashmi Talwar /Film Review/ Pak film Tops in India March 11, 2012Bol- ‘Bold’ By Rashmi Talwar Bol is bold, brash and banshee … Every time one tries predicting; a new twist fevicols (glues) one to the seat. At the outset it seems just another stereotype sob-story but its inner mazes – wraps and unwraps- you in a blind-hole, wherein you search the light out of the [...]Saanjh
- The Hindu : Cities / Delhi : A tale of two cities March 7, 2012The Hindu : Cities / Delhi : A tale of two cities. A tale of two cities PARUL SHARMA SINGH SHARE · COMMENT (1) · PRINT · T+ A NOBEL DESIRE: Rashmi Talwar wishes to give a fillip to one-on-one interaction between India and Pakistan. Rashmi Talwar’s blog ‘Saanjh’ on Amritsar and Lahore highlights the [...]Saanjh
- Play:‘Ghair Zaroori Log’Jammu Theatrics enthrall ‘8th National Theatre Fest’By Rashmi Talwar in Amritsar March 5, 2012Play: ‘Ghair Zaroori Log’ Jammu Theatrics enthrall ‘8th National Theatre Fest -2011’ in Amritsar By Rashmi Talwar ‘Ghair Zaroori Log’– …A play based on the lives of commoners that have little or no bearing on society, yet left a huge impact when woven into stories, was the theme on which the collective memory of characters [...]Saanjh
- Pakistani lady Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy gets Pakistan its first Oscar ! March 1, 2012Pakistani filmmaker and first-time Oscar nominee Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Academy Award on Monday for her documentary about acid attack victims, a first for a Pakistani director, firstpost.com reports. Her victory shines a spotlight on a subject, which affects thousands of women in Pakistan and elsewhere, but is seldom discussed at home. Chinoy dedicated […]Saanjh
- CULTURE SHOCK By ……Vandana (Minni ) Mahendru February 7, 2012CULTURE SHOCK By ……Vandana (Minni) Mahendru Prof Sham Lal Banti, broke into a sweat in the middle of the night. “Oh Parmatma! What am I going to face this year?” he shuddered. Agonizing efforts, hundreds of toss and turns with incantation of ‘Ram! Ram!’ brought him some shut-eye. The next morning dread set again, looking [...]Saanjh
- Shaheed Bhagat Singh at Lahore Railway Police Station January 21, 2012The lost son of Lahore—–Shaheed Bhagat Singh By Shreya Ray It is an uncanny coincidence that Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri, the magistrate who signed the death warrant of Bhagat Singh, was killed, more than 40 years later, at the same spot as the 23-year-old freedom fighter. The roundabout in Shadman Colony, Lahore—where the execution [...]Saanjh
- “Jashan-e-Faiz” Indo-Pak poetry flows under Faiz’s benevolent umbrella/ By Rashmi Talwar January 10, 2012Published on Front page Magazine in Kashmir Times on January 1st 2012 “Jashan-e-Faiz” Centenary Celebration of Faiz Ahmed Faiz Day –I Indo-Pak poetry flows under Faiz’s benevolent umbrella By Rashmi Talwar Were I to compare, the Urdu-Punjabi poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the greatest poets of the subcontinent –it would be to a [...]Saanjh
- 2011 in review January 1, 2012The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many [...]Saanjh
- FAIZ’S REBELLION WAS A PASSION :Salima Hashmi Faiz ‘s Daughter /By Rashmi Talwar December 26, 2011Kishwar Naheed, Rashmi Talwar, Salima HashmiSaanjh
- ~DROP~ By Rashmi Talwar November 24, 2011~DROP~ By Rashmi Talwar On a grass blade I glisten Whisper on the rocky slide Still is my whistle Brave, my plight ! Look! I am Flirting with a cloudy slice Now ! Rocking on a mountain top Its bristles push me just a slight Oh! How I wriggle in delight ! Flirting with a [...]Saanjh
- Of the Indo Pak Candle Lit Vigil ————–By Rashmi Talwar November 5, 2011By Rashmi Talwar On the midnight of August 14-15, a candle in hand, I walked with peaceniks, to Wagah-Attari Indo Pak Joint check post. The dark trees and shrubs draped in twinkling drops of fairy lights swathed and transformed the gloom into a bejeweled bride, decked for the Independence Day Celebrations of India and Pakistan. [...]Saanjh
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- ND Tiwari ‘Sower’ ? or a Vicky ‘Donor’? ………By Rashmi Talwar May 25, 2012AMRITSAR: Days have turned hot in Capital Delhi, and clammy hot for a veteran congress leader, having nightmarish dreams, breaking out in cold sweat, for having being strained to part with a single phial of his precious blood or face its forceful parting ! It is by the order of Delhi High Court that the [...]Saanjh
- Jammu & Kashmir Interlocator’s Report in the Open ! By Saanjh May 24, 2012J&K-InterlocatorsRpt-0512 THE ABOVE IS THE ENTIRE INTERLOCUTOR’S REPORT IN PDF FORMAT http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/interlocutors-suggest-review-of-statute-provisions-in-jammu-and-kashmir/1/197336.html Filed under: AMRITSAR, India-Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, LAHORE Tagged: Dilip Pangaonkar, interlocuter's report, Jammu & Kashmir, MM […]Saanjh
- A tireless crusader /Courage & conviction/ by Rashmi Talwar May 12, 2012Courage & conviction A tireless crusader As a young girl of barely twenty years in 1946, Kunti Paul set out to do social service and remained committed to the AIWC as member of the standing committee for nearly 40 years. That however did not deter her from lending her expertise and enthusiasm to other prominent [...]Saanjh
- Honeymoon again, Tulips again —-By Rashmi Talwar May 3, 2012Honeymoon again, Tulips again By Rashmi Talwar It is not a joke. Advertisements offering honeymoon packages to Kashmir have started to pop on our virtual windows. Charles Darwin had once said ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’ It has taken [...]Saanjh
- Lahore’s Rashid Rana Puts Us In Our Place….. BY NAYANTARA KILACHAND April 11, 2012Viewers find a certain delight in the works of Rashid Rana. The Pakistani artist is primarily known for his style of stitching together thousands of digital images of deliberate provocation to form a single image of seeming innocuousness. Take for instance, his “Veil Series”, where pixellated images of porn were placed mosaic-style to form images [...]Saanjh
- The Partition of Territory, Not Hearts —by Vaneet Kundra April 6, 2012by Vaneet Kundra THE Partition of India ranks, beyond a doubt, as one of the 10 greatest tragedies in human history. It was not inevitable. India’s independence was inevitable; but preservation of its unity was a prize that, in our plural society, required high statesmanship. That was in short supply. A mix of other reasons [...]Saanjh
- German Mx Doner Cuisine comes to Amritsar April 2, 2012By Saanjh The city of Amritsar, also known throughout the world as the taste capital of India, has attracted a Germany-based restaurateur Madam M Anske make space for a German restaurant here. During the opening of the joint ‘Mx Doner’, located at district shopping centre in Ranjit Avenue- Anske said under this name she would [...]Saanjh
- Performing Seva Winning Hearts:Pakistan’s Depty AG cleans shoes & utensils at Golden Temple March 28, 2012Nothing wins hearts more than True Humility….. Saanjh.wordpress.com Performing Seva Winning Hearts:Pakistan’s Depty AG cleans shoes & utensils at Golden Temple By Neeraj Bagga Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Khurshid Khan polishes shoes during a visit to the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Tuesday. photo: vishal kumar Amritsar, March […]Saanjh
- BETWEEN AMRITSAR & LAHORE by Dr. Manohar Singh Gill MP Rajya Sabha March 19, 2012When I was a little boy in Tarn Taran, a doggerel known to every Punjabi was oft quoted: “The man who has not been to Lahore, is not born”. A second lesser known, but often said in verbal jousts ran: The Donkey has been to Lahore, and now puts on airs. I hadn’t been to [...]Saanjh
- Bol- ‘Bold’ By Rashmi Talwar /Film Review/ Pak film Tops in India March 11, 2012Bol- ‘Bold’ By Rashmi Talwar Bol is bold, brash and banshee … Every time one tries predicting; a new twist fevicols (glues) one to the seat. At the outset it seems just another stereotype sob-story but its inner mazes – wraps and unwraps- you in a blind-hole, wherein you search the light out of the [...]Saanjh
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