Khalistan Calling
Weekly column by Dr. Amarjit Singh, published in Chardhi Kala newspaper. Addresses the significant events of the past week and their affect on the Sikh Nation. Updated every Wednesday.
Is the Naxalites armed insurgency, in rural India, heading towards it’s urban areas now?
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Indian PM Manmohan Singh’s unread patroness, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, is going around making false promises to the ‘unwashed’ Indian public, (as she did in a public meeting in Nellore last week) that Nuclear ‘Bijli’, after signing of the Indo-US nuke deal, will light up ‘every home in every village in India’. In marked contrast to the above phony boast the 40-years old violent Naxalite armed movement, has already spread, like a prairie fire, to more than half of India’s 602 Districts, (55% of India’s land area) and may soon rule the roost in ‘every village’ in rural India before Sonia’s promised Nuclear ‘Bijli’ (electricity) ever makes its presence felt....more
Eleven Sikh members of Parliament urged to vote against the Indo-US nuke deal -
It is indeed unfortunate, nay it is a tragedy, that in the current controversial debate, about the Indo-US Nuclear deal, no Punjabi leader, elected or self-appointed, (with one exception), has mentioned that the safety of Punjab, its inhabitants, their children and their children, lies in a nuclear free South Asia...more
A response to a wishy-washy statement of P.S. Pasricha, chairman of the Hazoor Sahib Gurdwara Board published in the New York’s ethnic press last week -
The corrupt and infamous ‘gentleman’, retired Indian Police officer P. S. Pasricha, the current Chairman of the Hazoor Sahib Gurudwara Board, (who cut short his junket to North America last month when he was publicly confronted, in a New York Gurdwara, about his involvement in the destruction of irreplaceable historical Sikh heritage structures in Nanded) has again, as is his wont, tried to fool the Sikh community with lies, imbedded in a wishy-washy New York-datelined written statement, justifying his unforgivable criminal actions, which statement some how got published in an ethnic New York Punjabi weekly, Apna Punjab, last week – issue of 2-8 July, 2008....more
When India’s minister for Sports, Sirdar M. S. Gill, says that, “Kartarpur is my Mecca, my Rome, my Jerusalem,” he is giving voice to the deep feelings of the world’s 26 million Sikhs -
When Sirdar Manohar Singh Gill, a Sikh, who is also the federal Sports minister of India, said in a recent letter, to Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee, (and earlier said so in the parliament also), that Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan, “is my Mecca, my Rome, my Jerusalam,” he is speaking for the world’s 26 million Sikhs, three million FREE in the diaspora and twenty three million held captive, in Indian occupied Punjab, behind India’s infamous electrified barbed-wire ‘Berlin Wall’ which runs along the Indo-Pakistan border...more