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Top Post in 2023

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Coventry Cathedral, 2023.
Coventry Cathedral, 2023.
Trinity Church, Coventry, 2023.

I hope you have been enjoying the photos and blog pieces from 2023. I hope to more productive in 2024 and look forward to sharing more pieces. Please leave any comments/feedback about the Blog below.

  1. Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu By Amrita Pritam
  2. Poetry Corner: Lahore
  3. Mein Tenu Phir Milangi – I will meet you yet again by Amrita Pritam
  4. How the Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White became the Images of Partition.
  5. 1881: the first full census in British India
  6. The Status of Punjabi after 1947
  7. 70 years ago: extracts of the Sunderlal Report, Hyderabad 1948.
  8. I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish
  9. Two villages, two nations: Ganda Singh Wala-Hussainiwala
  10. Sahir Ludhianvi and the anguish of Nehruvian India
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Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022

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Winter Walks © Pippa Virdee

Thank you to all the followers and readers of BagichaBlog. I started this Blog in 2016 and I am so pleased that despite having a full-time job I have managed to keep this Blog going, with the humble aim of posting at least once a month. I hope you have enjoyed reading and viewing some of these posts and pictures. Please do leave a comment. Wishing for a more tolerant and peaceful 2022.

Here are the top 10 posts of 2021:

  1. Ludhiana’s Clock Tower (Ghanta Ghar)
  2. The Status of Punjabi after 1947
  3. 70 years ago: extracts of the Sunderlal Report, Hyderabad 1948
  4. How the Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White became the images of Partition
  5. Fatima Sughra 1931-2017: A Forgotten heroine
  6. Durga Mandir/Juma Masjid
  7. Two Villages, two nations: Ganda Singh Wala-Hussainiwala
  8. 23 Sir Ganga Ram Mansion: The house of Amrita Sher-Gil
  9. Sahir Ludhianvi and the anguish of Nehruvian India
  10. The ‘Jingle Trucks’ and the emergence of Truck Art
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Live a rebellious life like Amrita Pritam — Maleccha

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In her autobiography ਰਸੀਦੀ ਟਿਕਟ, Amrita Pritam, the poet laureate of Punjabi shares an anecdote.It was the time when Amrita left everything behind, even her love for Sahir Ludhianvi. She joined Imroz in Mumbai, they lived a very economical life, working hard and staying within one’s little means.Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari, the aged patriarch of Punjabi […]

Live a rebellious life like Amrita Pritam — Maleccha