Author: Witty Punjaban

The legacy of male preference

Posted by Witty Punjaban | 20 Apr, 2016 | 1 |

I’m the youngest of many daughters in a Sikh family. I have one brother born a few years before me. I have been raised to believe by relatives and my culture that I am the least important of my parents’ children. No...

Review: ‘Ardaas’

Posted by Witty Punjaban | 17 Mar, 2016 | 0 |

I, like many people, am an ardent Gippy Grewal fan. Over the past decade Grewal has gone from...

Now a Singh is bling?

Posted by Witty Punjaban | 30 Sep, 2015 | 0 |

Akshay Kumar’s movie ‘Singh is Bling’ is Bollywood’s latest attempt to co-opt...

Respect Your Youth

Posted by Witty Punjaban | 24 Aug, 2015 | 0 |

Our local gurdwara is embroiled in the middle of some dirty committee elections. The back and forth between opposing parties is getting intense. There are mean Facebook comments, ugly emails and horrible things said on both...

Review: ‘Gadaar – the Traitor’

Posted by Witty Punjaban | 3 Jul, 2015 | 0 |

Amitoj Maan’s ‘Gadaar – the Traitor’ is a much better movie than last summer’s ‘Punjab 1984′. Both films depict events from nineteen-eighties’ and nineties’ Punjab, but unlike Anurag...