Dear Friends,

Though I have traveled fairly well abroad, I am not an expert on the Diaspora. Even lesser on Sikh Diaspora because my travels were official, private, fellowship, never to interact with and understand the Diaspora.

However, when media contacts, given spaces are so shrunk – active ongoing censorship – I feel it becomes imperative to speak. Most of what I understand is how it would be if you look at people, traumas, questions of justice and am informed from books, social media, and interactions with members of the Diaspora.

A few days back, Nachiket Deuskar from Scroll spoke to experts and me on how the Sikh Diaspora thinks of issues in Panjab and about Indian government and Khalistan.

Note: there are issues I mentioned that the article did not capture: effect of racism on brown folks in the white world; post 9/11 antipathy towards Sikhs (called towel heads, shootings); black lists back home. Front blocked, back blocked, where would people go? Arbitrary response of Indian government. For example, Darshan Singh Dhaliwal, first deported and then awarded.

Please read here …