If the Sikhs are a “nation” as Sardar Gurdial Singh asserts, he must answer the question why the Dalits and Backward Caste Sikhs have formed their own gurdwaras in Punjab. He lives inside Punjab and knows that the Sikh society is deeply divided.
There is no fellow-feeling, the longing to belong or common suffering which are the pre-requisites for a ‘nation”.
Even upper caste Sikhs are fighting between themselves. Akali Dal is divided. Yet like all other upper caste Sikhs, he is refusing to admit the stink even while suffering the stink. This is Brahminism.
And Sikhs like him have caused the fall and slow death of a revolutionary religion. DV has launched a Debate on this very subject and least after reading the angry outbursts of Dalit Sikhs he should have realised that Sikhs are not ‘nation”.
When the govt. formed a separate regiment for Untouchable Sikhs called ‘Siliguri’s the Army, the nation” of Sikhs should have protested if the Sikhs are one single homogenous whole. Where is the Sikh ‘nation” 7— EDITOR.
