Jagtar Singh

  (Above three pics are self0explanatory) Distortion of Sikh Faith in films calls for systemic approach, not just jerk reaction Ground Zero Jagtar Singh Yet another instance of  distortion of Sikh Faith in a film has surfaced this week. It is not alleged distortion but distortion going by the video of the song of the said film Yaarian 2, although the producer has tried to refute this charge. Provoked by this distortion, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, the highest elected statutory body of the Sikhs that was constituted to voice Sikh concerns, has lodged complaint against makers of Yaarian 2. As per the newspaper reports, seeking ban, the SGPC has approached the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. In the official statement released by the producer that has appeared in the papers, it has been denied that the actor concerned was wearing a kirpan asserting it is Khukri that is carried by the Gurkhas. The actor who is wearing it is clean-shaven and not a Si...

  Is Punjab worse than Manipur that Governor threatens invoking Article 356 against Mann government Ground Zero Jagtar Singh Chandigarh: Punjab has been witnessing building up of tension between Governor Banwarilal Purohit and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for some months over what apparently seems to be governance issues. This situation is unprecedented in case of Punjab but not in the context of role of governors in the states where the Bharatiya Janata Party is not in power. The governors have been hyperactive only in the states where non-BJP parties are in power and the most glaring examples are that of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu nwhere the rulinf parties are not in tune with the BJP. The office of the Governor is a colonial legacy and under the present constitutional system, it is nothing more than performing the role of the post office between the Centre and the State. The Raj Bhavans are more of superstructures putting burden on state exchequer. However, this di...

  Divisive politics poses bigger danger than dynastic politics, corruption and appeasement Grounder Zero Jagtar Singh Chandigarh: Starting this write-up by maying tributes to the lakhs of people who paid supreme cost and lost their home and hearth so that the people in the present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh could breathe in the free air. This is the day of both pain and dreams. India is at the stage when the younger generation thinks big and rightly so. It is time to shed last vestiges of mental colonialism. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the historic Lal Quila in Old Delhi, rightly called to the people to root out corruption, dynastic politics and politics of appeasement. All such menace must go. However, he left out yet one more menace that poses threat even to the unity and integrity of the country and has the potential to derail the big dreams. The country is already witnessing this politics being played ...

  After having questioned it, Prime Minister should apologize for Operation Bluestar Ground Zero Jagtar Singh   Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 10 gave a new spin to perhaps the most sensitive and horrendous action in free India- the army attacked on the Golden Temple (Darbar Sahib) complex in Amritsar in the first week of June, 1984 code-named Operation Bluestar. This has been the only operation of its kind by the Indian Army on own people in which about 1200 men and women, most of them devotees, were killed. The government refuses to provide the number of casualties although one figure was released in the White Paper released later but that is questionable. Prime Minister at that was Indira Gandhi. Prime Minister Modi took critical view of this army action going against well-known position of his party (Bharatiya Janata Party) while replying to the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha. He   questioned this action ordered by the Indira Gandhi gove...