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Among the hullabaloo when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited India last month, one story missed attention. Finally when Panjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh met Canadian PM Trudeau and Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan they also discussed World War I history. Sajjan pointed out to the military historian CM that the Canadian regiment in which he served, the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, had once fought alongside Singh’s former British Indian Army regiment against the Germans during the First World War trench-type battlefield of Ypres, Belgium.
The movie Sajjan Singh Rangroot is based on this war. Please read more here …
Tags: Amarinder Singh, British Indian Army, Harijit Singh Sajjan, Lahore Division, Sikh psyche, World War I
Yesterday, about 50,000 farmers and tribals marched into Mumbai seeking farm debt waiver. I reflected on it on Facebook and DailyO and Punjab Today chose to pick the piece as independent articles.
Please read DailyO piece here …
Please read Punjab Today piece here …
Tags: Debt Waiver, Farmer, Maharashtra, Operation Blue Star, Punjab, Tribal
The week the Canadian PM Justin Trudeau visited I watched the blown up controversy between two friendly nations with increasing dismay. The word that caused the controversy was Khalistan. Honestly, I felt cheated of my own decision in the mid 1990s to not opt for a PhD abroad and choosing to stay in India and deal with issues here. I felt now, a quarter century later, the very people I believed in had betrayed me by going silent.
This is a piece written with a weary heart. I am very thankful to Aditi Sengupta for carrying it without cuts, it gives me hope. After all one friend be one’s reason to stay, find home.
Please read here …
Later Punjab Today also carried it with original headline. Please read here …
Tags: Amarjit Sohi, Harjit Sajjan, Justin Trudeau, Khalistan, Liberals, Punjab, Sikhs