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If you'd have read my post well, you'd have realized that what I wrote is not just based on the article but other experiences as well. Its a phenomenon I have noticed for quite a few years. They are surely not balanced in their narrative of Sikh issues in India. And did I generalize all...

Well written piece. I feel the Western Sikhs are fed a biased and self serving anti-Hindu account which makes them hateful towards Hindus. This not only detrimental to the unity of Punjab, which belongs as much to the Sikhs as to the Hindus but also of the larger nation. But the worst effect of...

Zakir Naik too, I believe.

Was the ALH Dhruv evaluated before this tender was issued? Will it fall short of the requirements here?

Free the forum of the likes of you..!

Why are you hung up on the courts? Dont you know how the system works in India? When the state sponsors a pogrom for 3 days do you think it will allow police to act independently? Will the police then allow the witness to take the stand and not intimidate them? This was repeated over and over...

Its true we could have done more to put pressure on the govt. And the fact is that Sikhs arent even united. Congress came to power twice in Punjab after the 90s. Well the first time the Akalis boycotted it but Congress did win it the fair the second time. But does that absolve the state?

They are deeply linked. People can try and think they arent, but they are.

Just because these things happen a lot in India, doesnt mean we should forget it when it happens to our dear ones. Its easy typng away siting in the safe environs of your home. Bet you've never ever met people affected by the riots. It aint easy explaining to them that HR violations are common...

In a way it was good that the letter was brought out to the public's notice. Maybe now, the ever pending defence deals will be speeded up. This might actually turn out to be in the nation's interest. The general public sees a couple of billion dollar deals in 5 years and thinks our defence is...

Do army, policemen who kill innocents people of the law?

Its a cycle as you say. And as you rightly pointed out HR violations are an integral part of it. If that had been realized in the 80s people like Rajaona wont have been elavated in status. I understand what you mean and would really wish this was so. But it isnt. Just assume for a second that...

Listen, can you keep out of this please? Nobody is asking for autonomy here. And help from ISI or Pakistan is the last thing we want. I hope you have learnt your lessons from meddling on other country's affairs.

Why is that the Sikhs should display their understanding nature? What about the understanding of the 9 commissions set up by the govt to investigate the riots? Murderers and martyrs became heroes the day the state failed to act and instead became a murderer itself.

Nope. He shouldnt. Maybe it came out of a lot of political influence, but it was a right decision. Brother, I can understand collateral damage when its a war with a third country. But collateral damage when fighting your own citizens? That too of this scale? And again its to easy to call it as...

I do realize the armed secessionist movement, because guess what - I was there! And what you are saying is that the end justified the means, right? Maybe for you, but not for those the whom the means were applied. A guy in my neighborhood was picked up one day by the police because some...

He's been punished. Served his time. And Google HS Phoolka and read about his efforts to get scumbags like above imprisoned. Nothing happened. 4000 Sikhs killed and hardly 20 convictions. 9 commissions have come and gone, Read again - 9. Meanwhile orphaned kids have grown up and widowed mothers...

What court of law are you talking about? How many perpretators of the 1984 riots have been punished by the same court of law? How many police have been hanged for picking up 1000s of youth never to be seen? Let me see you have your brother picked up by the police and returned by ambulance and...

First Jatt isnt a caste in the traditional sense of the term. Its more of a tribe, community. The social structure in Punjab reflects the one in Pakistan Punjab. Since its an agrarian society, the land owning ones, usually the Jatts have most of the political power. Its the same in Haryana and...

Of course there is. They have as much a right to call themselves Punjabis as the Sikhs. Balwant Gargi, Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Vinod Khanna, Balraj Sahni, Om Puri..many examples.