The following KHALISTAN CALLING newsletter has been
published in the leading Punjabi-English newspaper of
the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based CHARHDI
KALA, (Issue of Oct. 24-30, 2001 : Vol. 17 ; No. 42). (http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/) It was also
published in the fourth week of October, 2001, in the Vancouver-based PUNJAB GUARDIAN, Toronto-based SANJH SAVERA, Calgary-based SIKH VIRSA
and numerous other Punjabi/English weekly and monthly publications which cater
to the three million strong Sikh diaspora in Europe, Africa, Asia and
Australia. It can be viewed on the Khalistan
Affairs Centre web site: (http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc10242001.htm) The Overseas Sikhs,
unlike their 20 million compatriots captive in India, are free and prosperous
and they are determined - as they believe it is their destiny and pray for it
every day; Raj Karay Ga Khalsa; Sikhs will rule - to carve a sovereign, democratic, egalitarian Sikh
buffer state of KHALISTAN in South
Asia, stretching from the Jumna river
on the East to the Pakistan border on the West, China on the Northeast and
Kashmir on the North.
Khalistan
Calling newsletter dated October 24, 2001.
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KHUSHWANT
SINGH, WHERE ARE YOU?
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KHUSHWANT
SINGH alias Khushamad Singh
HIDES
WHEN HIS CHALLENGE IS CHALLENGED
TO
DEBATE THE RAISON D'ETRE OF KHALISTAN
BY
Dr.
Amarjit Singh
956-National
Press Building, Washington DC 20045 USA
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Washington DC: October 24, 2001: In his July
14, 2001 'This Above All' weekly column in the TRIBUNE, (a Chandigarh Indian newspaper) headlined; 'A penny for
Jagjit Chohan', the Indian Castocracy's most prolific columnist Kushwant Singh, (born a Sikh in the
Punjabi town of Hadali in 1915)
challenged five leaders of the Sikh Freedom movement to an 'open dialogue to
discuss (the proposed South Asian democratic buffer state) Khalistan, in a public debate'. When his challenge was challenged
the man has gone into hiding.
The five 'Khalistani'
leaders named by Khushwant Singh (included among the 'luminaries' was the
Washington DC mendicant Gurmit Singh Aulakh) were too busy or did not have the
'fire in their belly' or were awed by the reputation of the Indian columnist,
to accept Khushwant Singh's challenge to debate the raison d'etre of Khalistan.
After waiting ten days this column publicly took up the gauntlet in the July
24, 2001, Khalistan Calling weekly
column, headlined; "Diaspora Sikhs Accept Khushwant Singh's Challenge to
Debate Khalistan's Raison d'etre"
(see http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc07242001.htm
).
Mr. Khushwant Singh - also called Mr. Khushamad Singh for the venality he shows towards the morally
repugnant Brahmin caste rulers of the Indian Castocracy - writes two regular
weekly columns (This Above All and Malice Towards One and All ) which are
syndicated to hundreds of English language and vernacular newspapers in India.
He was recently described by one of India's oldest newspapers THE STATESMAN as; "an 86 years old
author of 90 books and thousands of columns in national dailies who seems to be
at pains to erase his image of a wine-bibbing and woman-loving man."
In response to Khushwant
Singh's 'come on', nay challenge, we commented in our July 24 Khalistan Calling thus; "We think
that perhaps his (Khushwant Singh's) challenge for an open debate on Khalistan
is an insincere effort to shed his image and re-establish himself as a Sikh
writer of substance who can also think on behalf of his 23 million, unhappy and
muscular, Sikh compatriots - 20 million captive in India and 3 million free in
the diaspora - who openly pray every day in every Gurdwara all
over the world (even in the one's under 24-hour Indian police surveillance in
New Delhi like the Gurdwara near Mr. Khushwant Singh's house or others situated
in Indian army units in the cantonment) for Sikh rule - Raj Karayga Khalsa they pray daily - Sikhs will rule."
We waited for over a month
for the man (Khushwant Singh) to respond to our response - a long time indeed
in this Age of the Internet, FAX and telephone - but he did not react so we
taunted the Indian Castocracy's most prolific columnist in the August 28, 2001 Khalistan Calling which was headlined;
"Diaspora Sikhs Taunt Columnist Khushwant Singh" (see: http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc08282001.htm ). In that column we shamed the man by
addressing him thus; "It is difficult to understand your silence Sardar
Sahib, as it was you who threw down the gauntlet in the first place in your
July 14, 2001, 'This above all'
column, (published in various Indian newspapers including the Tribune and The Telegraph newspapers) in which you baited your Sikh compatriots
to a public debate on Khalistan. Your silence - after the Sikhs have taken up
the gauntlet - is therefore at a climax, when you have got to speak or lose
face. Your silence reminds us of a ballad: "Sticks and stones are hard on
bones, Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything, But silence breaks
the heart. How about breaking your vow of Gandhi-like silence and responding to
the invitation to the debate, Sir? Please be assured that you won't have to
spend a penny on your Washington trip as all the expenses will be taken care of
by the prosperous diaspora Sikhs, in case that concern is restraining you from
accepting the Sikh diaspora's sincere invitation for a debate in Washington
DC."
Despite the above August 28,
2001 public taunter, and reminder, India's most prolific columnist - Khushwant
Singh - has not had the courtesy or the moral courage to respond or let out
even a squeak. The old hypocrite - perhaps mouse would be a better word - has
probably decided to resort to the old Gandhian trick of keeping silent for a
few months when confronted with the truth or logic. We will however, wait so
that Mr. Khushwant Singh can prove that he is indeed a hypocrite who has sold
his soul to the morally repugnant Brahmin-caste rulers of India - monsters
really - whose hands are drenched with innocent Sikh blood. It is obvious that
Indian columnist Khushwant Singh, like his Brahmin 'gods' in Delhi, seems to
have nether shame nor grace. The great English clergyman and writer Thomas
Fuller M.D. (1654-1734) described such people thus: "He that is shameless
is graceless". We believe that this is a chance for Mr. Khushwant Singh to
show some grace or forever shut his mouth and sheath his pen. However, we still
want to give him a chance!
This man (Khushwant Singh),
with a slavish poodle mentality had wrongly assumed that we Sikhs are asleep.
We are not. We are alert. The Sikhs are going to establish a democratic and
egalitarian Sikh Raj in Khalistan, no matter what, which buffer state will
stretch from the Jumna river on the East, to the Pakistan border on the West,
to Kashmir in the North and China on the North East as the squalid Indian
castocracy is brittle, unjust and a typical Brahmin fraud whose time is up. The
low calibre of the Indian leadership (all children of the 'sudden generation'
which leapt overnight from the Tommy's kitchen to India's executive suites in
1947) has been highlighted during the past six eventful weeks when they made an
ass of themselves internationally. All Brahmin-ruled India needs is the
proverbial last straw on the Indian Camel's back and a kick from the Sikhs in
the 'posterior'.
For the benefit of our
readers we are appending below the rubbish this senile columnist, Mr. Khushwant
Singh, wrote in his Tribune column of July 14, 2001. You must have noted that
he did not have the guts to follow through, in the months that followed, when
his public challenge to five Khalistanis was challenged publicly by the
diaspora Khalistanis:-
Per
courtesy of
Tribune,
Chandigarh. India
July 14, 2001-
Windows
http://www.tribuneindia.com/20010714/windows/above.htm
Saturday, July
14, 2001
T
H I S ABOVE ALL
A
penny for Jagjit Chohan
Khushwant
Singh
I OWE one penny to Jagjit
Singh Chohan, the self-styled president of the Council of Khalistan. It was
awarded to him by a London court on a case of libel he had filed against me for
what I had written about him in a footnote in my volume II of the History of
the Sikhs, published by the Oxford University Press. He claimed that he was a
revered leader of the Sikhs and a man of peace and I had maligned his
reputation. I recall he claimed close to a million pounds in damages. My
publishers produced clips from BBC showing him announcing an award for anyone
who killed Mrs Indira Gandhi and then celebrating when she was assassinated.
That blew up his image as a man of peace. The jury held that although I had
said nasty things about him, all he deserved in compensation was one penny. In
addition, he was saddled with the costs of his suit amounting to about 60,000
pounds sterling. Nevertheless, he claimed he had been vindicated. Meanwhile, I
have kept aside a penny to give him whenever he asks for it.
However, this was three
years ago and out of my mind, I welcome him back home so that we can discuss Khalistan in a public debate. I would also welcome other supporters of Khalistan like
Zaffarwal, Ganga Singh Dhillon (Washington), Gurmit Singh Aulakh (Washington)
and Simranjeet Singh Mann to an open dialogue.
They hold that Khalistan is the ultimate solution to the Sikh problem. I
believe it will spell disaster for the Sikh community.
The only rational way to
start a debate on the subject is to ask protagonists of Khalistan to draw a map
of where Khalistan will be and its communal constitution, i.e., how many Sikhs,
Hindus, Muslims and Christians will it have? Then they must spell out the
future of Sikhs living outside Punjab - Ganganagar (Rajasthan), and Terai area
(Uttranchal) and Delhi which has more Sikhs living there than in Amritsar or
Ludhiana. Altogether more than 20 per cent of the Sikh population does not live
in Punjab and are more prosperous than their Punjabi co-religionists. And what
about Sikhs in Defence and other services in which their representation is much
higher than the 2 per cent that they constitute of India’s population? And,
finally, wherever the Khalistan of their dreams exists, it is bound to be a
land-locked state entirely reliant on Pakistan and India to market its
agricultural produce, for it has hardly any industry worth speaking of. If they
have any answers, I will be glad to hear from them. It is one thing to be angry
with the government for "Operation Blue Star" and the massive
killings of Sikhs following Mrs. Gandhi’s assassination - I condemned them in
Parliament and I have written on the subject - it is quite another thing to
pose a solution which will reduce the community to abject poverty. Khalsaji, I
appeal to you to ponder over your future and not lend your ears to enemies of
the Khalsa Panth. -
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