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The New Sovereigns

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By KBS Sidhu
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Nearly three decades ago, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg published The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age. Written in 1997, the book argued that information technology would shift power from the nation-state to the individual: knowledge, capital and eventually money would become mobile, letting skilled people choose where they lived, worked and paid taxes.[1] Much of this was perceptive.
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THE BANDI SINGHS: A SHORT PRÉCIS

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By KBS Sidhu
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Ai-generated representational image By Karan Bir Singh Sidhu, IAS (Retd.) The KBS Chronicle — 15 August 2026 While Independence Day across Punjab was celebrated with zeal and fervour — flag-hoisting ceremonies, school functions, the customary civic pageantry of the 80th anniversary of India’s freedom — one corner of that same morning told a rather different story.
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Sukhbir's Gambit: Akali Dal, Delimitation, and Punjab's Lok Sabha Arithmetic

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By KBS Sidhu
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K B S SIDHU Retired IAS officer and former Special Chief Secretary, Punjab A gambit, in the game it is named for, is a deliberate sacrifice of a piece early on, made in the hope of a stronger position later.
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