After a decade of living with the killings, the curfew, and the kidnappings, the people of Punjab have no alternative but to make their peace with the militants who no longer run a parallel government but the Government itself. However, the new governor has a gameplan to restore normalcy in the state.
ISSUE DATE: Jan 15, 1991 | UPDATED: Sep 19, 2013 11:08 IST
Terror. Often it is synonymous with sundown, palpable in the eerie, dark silence. The television sets are off on the diktat of the militants. The radios and two-in-ones are quiet as most music has been decreed to be decadent. The dogs are quiet too.