From: garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Gary Deol)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: re:Khalistan
Date: 21 Dec 92 08:16:42 GMT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada


 
A reply to a message written by: varma@sbnsld.physics.sunysb.edu
 
>I read with great interest the postings of Dibyendu. I also feel that 
>we should interact in a more constructive way rather than calling 
>each other names. The use of the net should be to disseminate 
>information and statements like we will do what we did in '84 is 
>certainly not going to help. Looking over the past is helpful in the 
>sense that we can correct ourselves for the mistakes committed but if 
>it is just to excite passions then one wastes one's own time as well 
>as of those whose passions one excited. The English to rule India
>divided the Muslims and Hindu. They could not divide sikhs and Hindus 
>but what they couldn't do we did it ourselves. If we look at history 
>the greatest times that India has witnessed is when its populace was 
>united. Whether you look at the reign of Ashoka the Great or at 
>Akhbar or for that matter even Ranjit Singh ji. He was able to hold 
>the English at bay because he could unite the population of Punjab. 
>Studying in Delhi I always found that Sikhs were very
 
  I'm glad you mentined those characters in history, if you know
anything about those people you would know that they firmly believed 
in the separation between church and state, that is why they kept the 
population united.  On the other hand India who now faces growing 
Hindu fundamentalist is shreading itself apart, and the Ayodhya 
dispute proves my case!  Lets face it, at the moment the government 
of India is run by the Hindus for the Hindus only!
 
>large hearted people. And before the Geeta Chopra's murder when ever 
>or lets say most of the time when I asked for lift it was invariably 
>given by a Sikh My best friend in college was Sikh. If they are 
>feeling alienated then there is some fault with our delaing. Lets be 
>united again so that we can look forward to our future where the 
>outlook is that every indian has a roof overr his head and has two 
>square meals a day rather than these narrow fanatical views. In the 
>end I would only like to remember a poem by Gurudev Rabindra Nath
>Tagore
 
  Even `moderate Sikhs' will admit that the Indian government isn't
sincerely interested in ending the Punjab problem, hence the papers
use the term "missed opportunities".
 
>Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
>Where knowledge is free
>Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow 
> domestic walls
>Where the words come out from the depth of truth
>Where clear stream of reason has not lost its way into
>dreary desert sand of dead habbit
>Where tireless striving stretches its arm towards perfection
>Into that heaven of freedom my father let my country awake
 
  Very nice meaningful poem and that is what we wish to achieve in 
our Khalistan, but this is how the Sikhs feel about India right now:
 
"We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939

Gary Deol              garyd@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian