Meenakshi Vashisth
To understand Patiala is to recognise it as a city born of tactical necessity and refined through cultural ambition. Unlike the Mughal metropolises of the north or the planned colonial cantonments, it emerged within the ‘Malwa’ region of Punjab, part of the cis-Sutlej tract, in the eighteenth-…
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Aalekh Dhaliwal
Every city has localities where, if one tries hard enough, everything can be found. Tripuri is Patiala’s very own Magic Lamp. In August 2025, when my mother and I visited Tripuri to understand the ethnic footprint that its migrants left on the city, we were ecstatic to experience a sense of…
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