 "Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal along with other SAD leaders during the political conference at village Chapaar in Ludhiana. Photo: PTI")
Kuch na honda Punjab da, zameen banjar, aulad kanjar.
(Nothing can come of Punjab–the lands are barren, the children are jobless.)
That extreme assessment of India’s 11th richest state was made by a drug kingpin in a dark, controversial film called Udta Punjab (Flying Punjab). The statistical reality, as IndiaSpend reported on January, 31, 2017, is that Punjab–ground zero of a green revolution that ended India’s image as a land beset by starvation–has failed to grow its economy or prepare its young
