Rajbir Deswal
By Rajbir Deswal
All cops are not necessarily corrupt. Some, like yours truly, are more or less honest. You know, the sort who doesn’t say ‘No, no!’ to a ‘let’s-round-it-off-to-the-next-digit’ offer, but isn’t an out-and-out rogue either....
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SUMMER GIFTS:“लैला की उँगलियाँ, मजनू की पसलियां: गर्मियों के बेनजीर...
made popular May 9 2011
Midlife crisis ————-
Gulab’s novel focuses on the lifestyle of the very high elitist’s strata who may not be as rich but who harp on enough...
made popular Apr 18 2011
Plethora of duties (By Rajbir Deswal in The Tribune today)
An average policeman in the country is overburdened with too many duties everyday, besides attending to...
made popular Mar 26 2011
Rajbir Deswal’s review of “Pages of Life” in The Tribune
“This young poetess doesn’t talk of fashion and fads; love, longing and live-ins;...
made popular Feb 28 2011
The legend of Panipat(In The Tribune today:http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110206/spectrum/main8.htm
Rajbir Deswal
PANIPAT comes with a tag not only of history, but...
made popular Feb 7 2011
‘K’ey factor in human relationsby Rajbir Deswal
No, I am not talking about the Kashmir issue, immensely known as the ‘K’ factor, and as a spoke in the wheel too...
made popular Dec 30 2010
Cooling burns
(I wrote this in memorium to the Dabwali fire victims for The Tribune:Rajbir Deswal)
Full fifteen years have elapsed when flames wrought havoc in...
made popular Dec 23 2010
Missing the Czar:
Here I go walking down memory lane, searching for the lost Rusi bhai
Medvedev’s visit to our country, reminds me of the days gone by—the...
made popular Dec 22 2010
How shall I repay Khushwant Singh I don’t know? I have had his love during the last 30 years or so when he wrote about me in his columns atleast half a dozen times....
made popular Dec 13 2010
Train cops to tackle mob violenceHow to check mob violence with minimum force and without causing injuries or deaths has always been a big challenge for the police. The...
made popular Nov 18 2010
Dada Abdulla
Rajbir Deswal
Fazal Hussein came from Panipat. He was my grandfather’s bosom friend. More than friendship, they had family interactions without any...
made popular Nov 17 2010
Very few of us, even those blessed with a rational, ethical, aesthetic mind and sensibility, have their intellect, spirit and impulses in harmony to create wonders in...
made popular Nov 15 2010
Avoidable bores!
by Rajbir Deswal
IF you have an acquaintance who has recently built a house; or has married off a son or daughter; or has returned after a foreign...
made popular Nov 10 2010
Wish U eye flu! Don’t get well soon
by Rajbir Deswal
KNOWING that I am a late riser, friends generally don’t call me early. But that day I was in for a...
made popular Sep 27 2010
Also at: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100927/edit.htm#6
Setting the police house in order
Rajbir Deswal
WHAT ails the police? The malady is not difficult to...
made popular Sep 27 2010
Randeep Wadhera’s review of Holypol in The Tribune today)
Saying it all, briefly
Reviewed by Randeep Wadehra
Holypol
By Rajbir Deswal.
DK’s Book For All.
Pages...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Troops in the General to kill me!!!
by Rajbir Deswal
Taking my bath I am informed that a ‘Gernal Saab’ has come to meet me. “Who,” I shout from the shower....
made popular Sep 14 2010
Some of my Mams and Sirs!
BY: RAJBIR DESWAL
Miss. Sandhu, a judge’s sister—I thought I had a crush on her in my 1st standard.
Mrs. Narang—she taught us Punjabi. I...
made popular Sep 6 2010
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Rajbir Deswal wrote this for The Tribune 10 years back:
THE news on the TV was on. My little puppy, Micky, lay curled on the carpet in my study, with a soft cushion...
made popular Sep 4 2010
Incessant rains made matters worse. Anxious villagers had gathered on a comparatively safer lagoon. A female voice vyed with thundering clouds in wailing, for her...
made popular Aug 20 2010
AND QUITE FLOWS THE RUSSIAN RIVER IN OBAMA LAND
By: Rajbir Deswal & Chander Koumdi
From Los Angeles to San-Francisco, via the dry grass-laden yellow dunes,...
made popular Aug 2 2010
His Master’s Choice
by Rajbir Deswal
PALAT, palat, palat!” He barked from behind. I turned my back and was surprised to see a dog on my trail. “Bhai...
made popular Jul 22 2010
Courtroom humour/Book review by Rajbir Deswal
Reviewed by Rajbir Deswal
THE present compilation (Tales from the Bench and the Bar) by octogenarian advocate of Bombay...
made popular Jun 28 2010
Murder for ‘honour’
Scribes’ testimony enough to punish culprits
by Rajbir Deswal
THE Tribune editorial, “Killings in Delhi: Hang culprits to root out the...
made popular Jun 21 2010
A date with tragedy king ( I met him on June 19 in 1998)
By Rajbir Deswal
During my school days I saw Dilip Kumar’s “Paigham”, a Gemini production, thrice and...
made popular Jun 19 2010
Regret slips
by Rajbir Deswal
THOSE were the days when one received a cheque as remuneration for a published piece along with a clipping of it. But there were...
made popular May 31 2010
Stylisig handicaps
by Rajbir Deswal
Watching me shave while standing almost akimbo in front of the washroom mirror, wife said the other day, “Looking great in this...
made popular May 17 2010
Supreme Court ban on Narco tests
The judgement will restore people’s faith in the system, says Rajbir Deswal (Special Report in The Tribune)
The Supreme Court has...
made popular May 10 2010
Rajbir Deswal interviewed Khushwant Singh on April 13.
Twenty six years old, beautiful, “Fatima Bhutto has seen enough violence...her book–Songs of Blood...
made popular Apr 19 2010
Margaret Tobin Brown: The Real Heroine of The Titanic
By: Rajbir Deswal
That she did not sink with the Titanic is fact. That Jack Dowson, who met her on the ill-fated...
made popular Apr 16 2010
Delhicious past
Like many charming ladies, Delhi too has a past!
By: Rajbir Deswal
News has reached us claiming Delhi...
made popular Apr 16 2010
Mr S D Sharma who is the famous art critic of The Tribune observes about Rajbir Deswal receipient of Lakhmi Chand Award :
“Very few of us , even blessed with a...
made popular Apr 8 2010
A senior Haryana police officer, Rajbir Deswal, posted as DIG (CID), has been chosen by the Haryana Sahitya Akademi for the prestigious Pt. Lakhmi Chand Samman for...
made popular Apr 8 2010
The magnificent scenery at Nainital—which is about eight hours away from Delhi by road—is a big draw. And the bonus is a trip to Kilbari to explore
hill mysteries,...
made popular Apr 5 2010
Man of the future
By Rajbir Deswal
I claim to be no Darwin, but I can foresee the (re?)evolution of the future man, in being half real and half plastic. Believe you...
made popular Apr 3 2010
“WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY!”
A thought that triggers killing for honour
By : Rajbir Deswal
With a Haryana court awarding severe punishment to the perpetrators...
made popular Mar 31 2010
Olfactory odyssey
By Rajbir Deswal
I can nose-it-all, travelling from Chandigarh to Delhi. Anyone can smell the difference between Milady’s cologne and a bottle of...
made popular Mar 13 2010
Gutsy girlie
by Rajbir Deswal
An all women crew flew from Banglore to Mumbai on the Women’s Day. I had soemone travelling with me have his heart gripped at a...
made popular Mar 10 2010
Grandma’s sword
By Rajbir Deswal
Dada and Dadi, a couple in there sixties, were our immediate neighbours then. They were not related to our family. Very fondly the...
made popular Mar 8 2010
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