During a musical tour of Canada in 1987, Punjabi singer Amar Singh Chamkila, played by Diljit Dosanjh in the recently released biopic, is summoned by a committee of Sikh religious leaders. Musician and ethnomusicologist Gibb Schreffler classifies the popular duo of Chamkila and Amarjot as a subcategory of “commercial folk music” that reached a peak in the 1970s and ’80s. …
The Ludhiana Rural police registered a case against a non-resident Indian and his aide for allegedly sexually harassing a 29-year-old woman. The accused have been identified as Harshwinder Singh and his aide Baldev Singh, both residents of Ramgarh Sivia village. She added that in October 2023, accused Baldev Singh had sexually assaulted her when she went to his house to …
