By hema on March 11, 2010
Though there has been stringent prohibition act against defacing or damaging the precious historical monuments by the government, yet the act is being ignored, with hardly any guilt, by the authorities.
Ram Bagh, an 84-acre summer palace set up by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1819, is a prime example to testify the couldn’t care less attitude [...]
Posted in Architectural, Cultural | Tagged Punjab Remains Act 1964, Ram Bagh, Ranjit Singh
By Harbakhsh Grewal on March 9, 2010
Last November here in Britain the annual remembrance took place of the country’s war dead. Up and down the country on Remembrance Sunday services are held to remember those who have given their lives in the two world wars and many other wars since then, including the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. And this [...]
Posted in blog, Cultural | Tagged Remembrance, Sikh, UK, World Wars
By hema on February 19, 2010
When the British conquered Lahore in 1849, Lord Dalhousie, the Governor General, declared that he would educate the “wild illiterate Punjabis” in a new system of Anglo-Vernacular education. When they started the East India Company Board was shocked by what already existed.
The board was amazed to find that the literacy rate in Lahore and its [...]
Posted in Cultural, Punjabi Social History | Tagged Dalhousie, East India Company Board, Lahore, Ranjit Singh
By admin on January 22, 2010
Despite enjoying a lot of funds and working under the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB), Diyal Singh Trust Library (DSTL) has still not started digitalising its collection of rare books, periodicals and manuscripts. However, due to its importance in history and its vast collection of books, the DSTL is tremendously popular among local as well [...]
Posted in Cultural, Manuscripts | Tagged Diyal Singh majithia, Lahore, library
By Amandeep Madra on January 10, 2010
Gurpreet K. Maini writes a review of India’s leading heritage conservation NGO, on its 25th anniversary in the Sunday Tribune.
If today graffiti is diminishing our monuments, particularly the unlisted ones, there are fewer ‘pan’ splurges; they are no longer open-air urinals or defecating hubs, we owe it to the pivotal catalyst INTACH, a concept which [...]
Posted in Architectural, Cultural, Material | Tagged conservaion, India, INTACH
By Harbakhsh Grewal on January 6, 2010
The ushering in of the New Year and of the second decade of the new millennium is an occasion to reflect on the year gone as well as to look forward.
2009 saw the re-election of a Sikh-led Indian government but a leader often decried as being the puppet rather than the puppet master and of [...]
Posted in blog, Cultural | Tagged Obituary, SGPC, Sikh
By Amandeep Madra on January 4, 2010
A former Project Director at The Smithsonian’s prestigious National Museum of American History, George Jacob, has been named director of the Khalsa Heritage Complex in Anandpur Sahib reports the Midland Daily News. The Khalsa Heritage Complex is one of the largest museum complex in India currently in advanced stages of construction.
Smithsonian trained Jacob, an internationally [...]
Posted in Cultural, Material | Tagged Anandpur Sahib, Khalsa Heritage Complex, Museum, Smithsonian
By admin on November 29, 2009
The Kothi where Rani Jindan was detained in a shambles writes Mahesh Sharma in The Tribune.
Despite the keen interest shown by the world in the auction of a necklace of Rani Jindan, the Bassi canal rest house, popularly known as a “kothi”, where the queen and her last Sikh ruler son, Maharaja Duleep [...]
Posted in Architectural, Cultural | Tagged conservation, Duleep Singh, jindan, Ranjit Singh, relics, Sikh
By Harbakhsh Grewal on November 17, 2009
Punjab is more than Sikh heritage. And Sikh faith, history and culture extends beyond the limits of Punjab, however you to choose to define the boundaries of that land. The tenth Guru was born and died in other far flung parts of India, Guru Nanak travelled across Asia to spread his message, whilst many western [...]
Posted in blog, Cultural | Tagged conservation, kila raipur, Sikh
By Amandeep Madra on November 10, 2009
The latest documentary from Navdeep Kandola tells the largely untold story of Sikh fighter pilots. The Royal Air Force Museum presents an exclusive opportunity to view a brand new documentary on Sikh fighter pilots on Sunday 22rd November at 2pm.
Posted in blog, Cultural | Tagged film, RAF, Sikh
