Reported explainers and cultural histories, built from documented facts and linked original sources.
MusicAmaal Mallik and Subhodhh Sharma created an unforgettable musical evening at Chandigarh University, where thousands of fans sang along to Ve Junoon and Yeh Awarapan, building massive excitement ahead of Awarapan 2’s worldwide release.
CinemaHoney Trehan’s long-delayed biographical drama follows human-rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra. Its brief 2026 release opened a larger argument about memory, evidence and censorship.
CinemaImtiaz Ali’s 2024 film turns the singer’s short, controversial life into a debate about art, class, desire and who gets to speak for Punjab.
StyleLong before contemporary runways rediscovered it, women across pre-Partition Punjab used phulkari to record family, landscape and ceremony.
MusicFrom community halls to daytime club nights, British Asian musicians made a hybrid sound that belonged fully to more than one place.
CinemaGurinder Chadha’s 2002 comedy used football, food and a Hounslow wedding to make belonging specific—and therefore universal.
CultureStandardised in the Sikh tradition and transformed by print and type, Gurmukhi remains one of Punjabi’s principal writing systems.
CinemaThe 1981 landmark paired a village melodrama with a sharp account of land, power and dignity—and won India’s National Film Award.
CultureOpened in a former town hall near Jallianwala Bagh, the museum centres oral testimony and the belongings people carried across a new border.