Follow a life
Makers, writers and scientific lives
Different kinds of work connect Punjab to much wider worlds. Read biographies through institutions, publications and material evidence.
4 entries · 9 min reading, calculated from article text
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Your reading goal
Separate a documented connection to Punjab from assumptions about personal identity.
- 01People · 3 min read
Amrita Pritam: a life in Punjabi literature
Meet the poet and novelist through a few documented works, a careful chronology and routes into her published writing.
- 02People · 2 min read
Abdus Salam: Punjab, physics and international science
Follow Salam’s education in Punjab, his contribution to particle physics and his work to make research less isolated.
- 03People · 2 min read
Har Gobind Khorana: from Punjab to the genetic code
A biochemist’s route through Punjab’s schools and international laboratories, and the experiments that helped explain how cells make proteins.
- 04Culture · 2 min read
Phulkari: cloth, stitch and women’s work
Look closely at a Punjabi embroidery tradition through materials, making, domestic use and the limits of surviving collections.
A question to carry with you
Choose one claim from your reading. Identify its source and locator. What does that source directly establish, and what would need a second source?