2008
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- | Is the Naxalites armed insurgency, in rural India, heading towards it’s urban areas now? |
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- | Eleven Sikh members of Parliament urged to vote against the Indo-US nuke deal |
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- | 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 |
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- | 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 |
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- | Musings on the ongoing nation-wide Sikh protests in India against the phony Sirsa Baba whose bodyguards murdered Balkar Singh outside a Mumbai shopping mall |
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- | Martyrs of June 1984 Indian Army attack on Akal Takht Sahib remembered all over the Sikh diaspora world and India with Shaheedi Diwans, seminars, protests & candle-light vigils |
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- | A 24th anniversary Salute to the Sikh martyrs of the June 1984 Indian army’s cowardly attack on Sri Akal Takht Sahib in Amritsar |
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- | Has the Manmohan Singh government finally given up on the US-India nuclear deal? |
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- | Is India encouraging a Coup d’ e`tat by the Royal Nepal Army while China is busy with the massive earthquake and the August 2008 world Olympics in Beijing? |
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- | ‘Wake-up’ Punjab & remember the defunct SYL canal |
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- | Punjab farmer MUST be FREE to sell his wheat and rice at world market rates which are currently running at double the government’s Minimum Support Price |
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- | Musings on the April 10 election ‘shock’ in Nepal |
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- | What kind of spectacular protest will Dalai Lama & Co., mount in Delhi on April 17 when the Olympic Torch is scheduled to pass through? |
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- | Tibetan ‘hawks’ might ‘ambush’ the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch relay when it passes through India on April 17 |
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- | Supreme Court and Haryana’s triple conspiracy against Punjab |
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- | Power and majesty of the Sikh prayer ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’ is visible every where since Kosovo declared it’s independence |
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- | India’s latest ‘Loan waiver’ scheme for farmers in the 2008 budget has been trashed by Punjab Chief minister Badal with facts, who described it ‘as a farce, fraud and cruel joke’ |
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- | Another intrigue by Haryana to steal Punjab river water |
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- | KOSOVO, a province of the Republic of Serbia, has unilaterally declared its’ independence on February 17 |
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- | Is another Indo-China border war in the offing? |
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- | Latest Index of Economic Freedom – 2008 ranks the ‘Sick man of S. Asia – INDIA at 115th out of 157 countries surveyed below Sri Lanka, Pakistan & Nepal |
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- | Sikh turban controversy in France unites the world’s 26 million Sikhs as one |
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- | Musings on Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh’s recent visit to China |
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- | India drops five places, to 105th out of 127 countries surveyed, in the latest 2008 UNESCO’s ‘Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report’ |
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- | Indian Supreme Court plans to ambush Punjab after the New Year by deciding water disputes in Haryana’s favor |
Is the Naxalites armed insurgency, in rural India, heading towards it’s urban areas now?
Wednesday, July 23, 2008Indian 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
Wednesday, July 16, 2008It 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
Wednesday, July 09, 2008The 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
Wednesday, July 02, 2008When 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
Musings on the ongoing nation-wide Sikh protests in India against the phony Sirsa Baba whose bodyguards murdered Balkar Singh outside a Mumbai shopping mall
Wednesday, June 25, 2008Just imagine that in India, (2007 population estimate: 1, 129, 866, 154) which trumpets that it is the world’s largest ‘democracy’, with the inherent right of the people to protest, the small Sikh minority (23 million) can’t even protest the cold-blooded murder last Friday, in Mumbai, of a 40-year old innocent Sikh, Balkar Singh, without the whole community being publicly threatened...more
Last October, historic Baradari & Ramgarhia Bunga built by Maharajah Ranjit Singh in the Hazur Sahib complex, were bulldozed under cover of night after protesting Sikhs had been dispersed with rifle fire by Maharashtra Police, a company of which was deployed inside the Hazur Sahib complex under the direct command of the then Director General of Police, one P. S. Pasricha, a ‘K.P.S. Gill’ clone, who at that point in time, had also been rewarded with an appointment to concurrently hold the post
Wednesday, June 18, 2008India’s crafty Brahmin-caste dominated ruling elite, has been trying, since independence from the British in 1947, when the evil Brahmin/Bania nexus inherited the instruments of state power, to do to the South Asian Sikhs what their forefathers did to the Buddhists and Jains over a millennium ago...more
Martyrs of June 1984 Indian Army attack on Akal Takht Sahib remembered all over the Sikh diaspora world and India with Shaheedi Diwans, seminars, protests & candle-light vigils
Wednesday, June 11, 2008During the past week the three million strong FREE and prosperous Sikh diaspora, domiciled all over the world, remembered the 24th Anniversary of the June 1984 cowardly Indian Army attack, on the holy Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar and 37 other Gurdwaras, with Shaheedi Diwans, seminars, protests and candle light vigils synchronized with memorial functions held in Indian Occupied Punjab and Indian Occupied Kashmir...more
A 24th anniversary Salute to the Sikh martyrs of the June 1984 Indian army’s cowardly attack on Sri Akal Takht Sahib in Amritsar
Wednesday, June 04, 2008Twenty four years ago, on June 03, 1984, the then Prime minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi of the Nehru Dynasty, ordered a massive Indian army attack, on Sikhism's holiest site (its sanctum sanctorum) the Akal Takht Sahib, located in the Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar. The holy shrine was packed at that time with pilgrims observing the anniversary of the martyrdom of Siri Guru Arjan Sahib, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs. For Sikhs, the memory of that murderous June 1984 Indian army attack, nay a brazen act of state terrorism, during which thousands of innocent Sikhs were murdered, is a 'diary', written in blood and engraved on their hearts, they carry about with them where ever they go...more
Has the Manmohan Singh government finally given up on the US-India nuclear deal?
Wednesday, May 28, 2008The sudden decision of the Manmohan Singh government this week to postpone a meeting, with the Left parties, scheduled for May 28 (to secure their consent for the government to go to the International Atomic Energy Agency to sign an agreement with that body to pave the way for India to approach the Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting in early June) may turn out to be the last nail in the ‘coffin’ of the much discussed US-India nuclear deal. The nearly 3-years long vociferous Sikh Advocacy Campaign against the US-India ‘nukes-for-mangoes’ deal has not been in vain!...more
Is India encouraging a Coup d’ e`tat by the Royal Nepal Army while China is busy with the massive earthquake and the August 2008 world Olympics in Beijing?
Wednesday, May 21, 2008Is India about to take advantage of the Chinese government’s involvement in the massive earth quake (and the August 2008, World Olympiad in Beijing) to give a ‘wink and a nod’ to the worried Gurkha-dominated Royal Nepalese Army to launch a coup d’e`tat in Khatmandu? YES....more
‘Wake-up’ Punjab & remember the defunct SYL canal
Wednesday, May 14, 2008A report, by Tribune News Service correspondent, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, (headlined, “Hansi-Butana Canal Central Water Commission report favoured Haryana, allege Punjab & Rajasthan,”) published last week in the Chandigarh-based newspaper Tribune, claims that, “Punjab’s concern regarding, the Central Water Commission (CWC) playing foul in respect of a report on the (illegal) Hansi-Butana canal, to be submitted to the Supreme Court, has proved correct. What has peeved Punjab the most, claims the report, is the fact that the Central Water Commission (CWC) is not giving an impartial and reasoned report on the Hansi-Butana canal issue. The Central Water Commission (CWC) has not responded seriously to major issues raised by Punjab on flooding and water-logging and has played down technical infirmities stating that Haryana will prepare a revised project report to overcome these.” ...more
Lahore-based NATION newspaper cracks the current Indian embargo on any Khalistani news with a report about Sikh diaspora plans of organizing world--wide advocacy protests urging countries like Canada to boycott the 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi in which city 10, 000 Sikhs were murdered in the November 1984 state-sponsored pogrom
Wednesday, May 07, 2008Our website (www.khalistan-affairs.org) has been hacked by the Indian intelligence following publication of a report in Lahore-based NATION newspaper about plans of the diaspora Sikhs to boycott the October 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi!...more
At the New York 21st Vaisakhi Sikh Day parade on April 26 Akal Takht Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti, boldly endorsed the right of self-determination of Sikhs for a democratic South Asian buffer state of Khalistan
Wednesday, April 30, 2008On a bright and sunny Saturday, on April 26, 2008, down-town New Yorkers saw the colorful 21st Vaisakhi Sikh Day Parade, marching down Broadway, in Manhatten. The parade culminated in New York’s Madison Avenue Park, where distinguished invitee, Akal Takht Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti, in his speech to the enthusiastic crowd, boldly endorsed the Sikh right of self-determination to seek a democratic water/food-rich buffer state of Khalistan in South Asia. A Sikh state destined to act as a bridge of peace and commerce between South and Central Asia. The patriotic call of Jathedar Vedanti was endorsed with repeated loud cheers of ‘Long Live Khalistan’ (Khalistan Zindabad) by the over 30,0000 Sikhs who had gathered in New York’s Madison Avenue Park. ...more
Punjab farmer MUST be FREE to sell his wheat and rice at world market rates which are currently running at double the government’s Minimum Support Price
Wednesday, April 23, 2008In a Leader (Editorial) headlined, “The silent tsunami – Food prices are causing misery and strife around the world. Radical solutions are needed,” the Economist, London, (to its eternal credit) has given a wakeup call to the world in general and Indian occupied Punjab, the Sikh Homeland, in particular, where the government continues to play games, (really cheating the farmers) under cover of the so-called Minimum Support Price (MSP) for wheat of Rs. 1, 000 when world price is nearly double that figure and rising. ...more
Musings on the April 10 election ‘shock’ in Nepal
Wednesday, April 16, 2008The unexpected victory for the Maoists (Communist Party of Nepal) in the April 10 elections in Nepal is going to be a nightmare for India, writes the Economist London. How true!...more
What kind of spectacular protest will Dalai Lama & Co., mount in Delhi on April 17 when the Olympic Torch is scheduled to pass through?
Wednesday, April 09, 2008The lingering sad memory of the 10, 000 innocent Sikh men, women and children who were murdered in Delhi, during the horrific state-sponsored November 1984 bloody pogrom, is the raison d`etre for the Open Letter advocacy appeal appended below. It is addressed to His Excellency Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States. The appeal appeared today (April 9) in the Op-Ed page of the Washington Times newspaper. Memory is the diary that we Sikhs carry about with us. “Human blood is heavy; the men that have shed it cannot run away,” says an African proverb...more
China ought to smile at the Sikh movement for Khalistan & support the aspirations of Christian Nagas for Nagalim which steps will nullify India’s anti-China subversive activities in Tibet, Dharamsala & around the world long before the XXIX Olympiad
Wednesday, April 02, 2008India’s leading English language newspaper, the Times of India, in an expose on March 30, reports that, few groups on this planet can match the (> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The_Monk_Who_Sold_A_Story/articleshow/2910734.cms <) ability of the Dalai Lama and his cohorts, in the Tibetan diaspora, to network, make friends and milk the power of naïve Western sympathy for ‘harmless-looking purple-robed’ monks who skillfully supply the Western media with gory tales and images of Chinese ‘oppression’ and ‘aggression’ in Tibet, which are floated on several hundred websites, the authenticity of which information cannot be verified independently. ...more
Tibetan ‘hawks’ might ‘ambush’ the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch relay when it passes through India on April 17
Wednesday, March 26, 2008The sudden eruption of violence and vandalism in Lhasa, capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, and the synchronized, well-organized, provocative protests orchestrated by ‘Tibetan-looking’ activists in India (obviously with a ‘wink and a nod’ from the Chanakyan rulers in Delhi) raise some profound questions. The first question that comes to mind is about the safety of millions of Sikhs living, astride the Xiangquan He river (or Sutlej river) in the Indian occupied Sikh Homeland of Punjab Khalistan which unhappy and vulnerable land is located less than 200 miles - or 3 minutes away ‘as the missile flies’ – from an ‘angry’ China. ...more
Supreme Court and Haryana’s triple conspiracy against Punjab
Wednesday, March 19, 2008The brazen conspiracy to steal some more of Punjab’s life-giving river water (from water-short Punjab’s present and future generations) unfolded, last Thursday - 13 March, 2008 - in the halls of the Indian Supreme Court, built by the Colonial British on stolen Sikh Gurdawara lands, in New Delhi, India....more
Power and majesty of the Sikh prayer ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’ is visible every where since Kosovo declared it’s independence
Wednesday, March 12, 2008‘It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable’ is an old truism. The powerful appeal in our column on KOSOVO, last month, urging the world's 26 million muscular Sikhs to unite a la Kosovo, in an effort to give meaning to the Sikh prayer of ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’, (which every Sikh repeats in every Gurdwara every day) by creating matching ‘facts on the ground’, in the Indian-occupied Sikh Homeland of Punjab, has flooded the internet with commentaries. The ‘wake-up call’ has obviously shaken up India's insecure Brahmin/Bania minority ruling elite from the Indian Prime minister downwards. Read Khalistan Calling, dated 20 February, 2008, headlined, “Is it not the turn of Punjab (Khalistan) to unilaterally declare its’ independence next” by clicking at:- > http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/home/khalistancalling/2008/february20.aspx < Reports indicate that the insecure Indian rulers are conspiring with the anti-Sikh bigoted Supreme Court to create trouble, in the coming months, over river waters, and other issues, in Indian occupied Sikh Punjab....more
India’s latest ‘Loan waiver’ scheme for farmers in the 2008 budget has been trashed by Punjab Chief minister Badal with facts, who described it ‘as a farce, fraud and cruel joke’
Wednesday, March 05, 2008A phony partial debt default readjustment scheme for India’s farmers, which is supposed to cost Rs. 60, 000 crore ($. 15 billion), announced in the latest national budget, presented in the Indian Parliament the other day, is being trumpeted as if all the debts of the poor Indian farmers (which includes the Punjab farmers as well) are going to be forgiven. This populist dezinformatsiya, (a lie really) which is being circulated by the Indian propaganda machinery, with an eye on the Indian general elections, due by May 2009, has even ‘earned’ a bogus headline from the usually reliable BBC whose report is headlined, “India cancels small farmers' debt. The Indian government is to cancel the entire debt of the country's small farmers in a giant scheme that will cost 600 billion rupees ($15bn; £7.6bn).” Read the above mentioned inaccurate BBC report, dated February 29, 2008, by clicking at the following link: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/7270361.stm < ...more
Another intrigue by Haryana to steal Punjab river water
Wednesday, February 27, 2008Among recent items of real bad news about Indian Occupied Punjab, which will effect the future generations of Sikhs, (like the Supreme Court’s refusal to stay a judgment of the Punjab/Haryana High Court which denied 50% minority rights for Sikhs even in SGPC-financed educational institutions, the Center’s plans to dig another barrage Ravi-Beas link canal to steal some more Punjab river water for non-riparian Haryana & Rajasthan states, the horrible state of primary education and pollution of underground water and rivers in the Punjab, poor condition of the Punjab canal network, and the looming huge power shortage in the coming summer) there is also a small news item which looks like good news from the Sikh Homeland. The Badal government in the Punjab, has ‘steeled its spine’, so it seems, to reject the brazen demand of non-riparian Rajasthan to supply an additional 20,000 cusecs of canal water, free of charge, in February and March through the Rajasthan feeder, over and above the 8.00 MAF of Punjab river water that ungrateful Hindu-majority state has been receiving, free of charge, since the 1960’s....more
KOSOVO, a province of the Republic of Serbia, has unilaterally declared its’ independence on February 17
Wednesday, February 20, 2008On Sunday (17 February) Southeastern Europe, (and the free, prosperous and alert 3 million strong Sikh diaspora) witnessed the courageous members of the Kosovo provincial assembly unilaterally declare their country’s independence, from the landlocked Republic of Serbia, thus ending a long and bloody chapter in the break-up of former Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. Land-locked Kosovo will be the sixth independent state carved, since 1991, out of the former Serbian-dominated Yugoslav federation after Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Montenegro...more
Is another Indo-China border war in the offing?
Wednesday, February 13, 2008Is another Indo-China border war in the offing? The current Indian rulers have started strutting around just like Prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru (1889-1964) who got a swollen head in 1961 after the easy capture of the tiny Portuguese colony of Goa by an invading Indian Army...more
Latest Index of Economic Freedom – 2008 ranks the ‘Sick man of S. Asia – INDIA at 115th out of 157 countries surveyed below Sri Lanka, Pakistan & Nepal
Wednesday, February 06, 2008India’s rulers, an evil nexus between the Bania and the Brahmin castes, really believe in the BIG lie like Adolf Hitler, the German Nazi and Fuhrer of the Third Reich (b.1889-d.1945) who wrote in his 1924 autobiography, ‘Mein Kampf’ that, “The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” ...more
Sikh turban controversy in France unites the world’s 26 million Sikhs as one
Wednesday, January 30, 2008The Sikh turban controversy in French schools fanned by the ‘double-talking’ French government’s racist/colonial arrogance, silence of an uncaring Indian government (led by a timid, weak-kneed, ‘turbaned’ Prime minister) and a vigorous lobbying/legal effort by the United Sikhs (an organization with a world-wide network, registered with the United Nations as an NGO) has not ended in a Sikh victory so far. But, the positive note is, that the turban issue has united the 26 million strong Sikh nation as one (3 million in the diaspora and 23 million captive in India) which unity and outrage has in turn triggered an awakening among the Sikh youth, in India and abroad, about the importance of the turban, bequeathed to Sikhs by the Sikh Gurus centuries ago...more
The grim 2008 forecast by the Economist London about India’s small South Asian neighbors omits to mention the Naxalite armed insurgency, the ‘slow-burn volcanoes’ in Punjab & Kashmir, et al., which are going to destroy the Indian demoNcracy from within
Wednesday, January 23, 2008The Economist, London, (one of the oldest and most prestigious weekly news magazine of the world, read by everybody who is anybody) has a grim 2008 forecast for South Asia....more
Musings on Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh’s recent visit to China
Wednesday, January 16, 2008The Indian propaganda machinery has been working overtime to churn out a spate of fairy tales, nay a spate of ‘feel good’ lies - typical Indian dezinformatsiya about ‘Incredible India’ - to show the ‘success’ of the recent 3-day visit of Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh to China...more
India drops five places, to 105th out of 127 countries surveyed, in the latest 2008 UNESCO’s ‘Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report’
Wednesday, January 09, 2008While the Mumbai Stock Market Index has zoomed past the 21, 000 mark, making a few Banias very rich, UNESCO’s recently released ‘Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2008’, paints a grim picture of India’s masses and its’ literacy situation - largest number of illiterates in the world. In that 2008 report, UNESCO has ranked India 105th out of 127 countries surveyed as compared to India’s standing of 100th out of 129 countries surveyed in 2007 – a drop of five points in performance in just one year. There goes the ‘Incredible India’ slogan that the current United Progressive Alliance (Manmohan Singh) government never tires of eulogizing. Some future for India’s billion plus population!...more
Indian Supreme Court plans to ambush Punjab after the New Year by deciding water disputes in Haryana’s favor
Wednesday, January 02, 2008Our reliable sources in the Indian Ministry of Water Resources have reported that the Central Water Commission (CWC) has prepared a biased (and totally anti-Punjab, pro Haryana) technical report on the illegal Hansi-Butana canal controversy for submission to the Indian Supreme Court after the New Year....more