Channel 4 Article On Punjab Drugs

[singh598]

Sikhi will always survive and the revival has started 

[dallysingh101]

18 hours ago, singh598 said:

 

This was so sad.

People have been shouting loud for years about how the agricultural industry is unsustainable. Unless people in Panjab start to think outside the box and develop a more robust and diverse economy, this will only continue. 

[dallysingh101]

I honesty don't get why people make all those caste based self-aggrandisement tunes and movies back home when this is going on under their noses. Can anyone help me understand? 

[Cisco_Singh]

When your so called leaders turn away a person who offered to bring millions into Sikhi because they don't want low caste converts to become the majority and upset their power base that's when you know panth have serious issues.  

For reference I'm talking about when Dr Ambedkar travelled to Amritsar in the 1930s and offered to take Amrit convert to Sikhi along with his millions of dalit followers.

The Gaddars in Sikh leadership at the time Master Tara Singh and the SGPC clowns (or soon to become SGPC), consulted with Gandhi and Nehru i.e: Indian government who urged them to decline Dr Ambedkars proposal.

Obviously Indian government didn't want Sikhi to spread and the jatt elitist leaders couldn't have so many Dalits possibly threatening their power base so ...  Offer rejected.

Had this offer been accepted the picture would be very different now..we would be looking at potentially 250 to 300 million Sikhs in India. Instead we are looking at a shrinking kaum..Sikh population in Punjab is dropping year on year. 

We wouldn't be crying about drug problems and female infanticide right now if we had competent leadership who are not traitorous sell outs .

[imhosingh]

I've been to punjab plenty of times and i know relatives who are drug users (they disappear all day out with their friends and have that glazed look when you see them). One of the problems I have seen is that most of these 'users' are 'little maharajas'. They want to look like the latest Bollywood hero, they want to be cool , working in fields in beneath them (hence the families get in workers from Bihar etc) and they are still treated in cotton wool because they are 'males'. Through cultural socialisation you have a generation of 'selfish' blokes. They constitute most of the druggies. I been in the fields while in different villages where you have the local yoof sitting around while the Biharis do the work (oh and the punjabis treat the migrant workers like excrement). So many things are at play which make this a whole situation a problem , you have caste , gender, economic and cultural issues at play . PLus the fact that it is only happening because the government locally and nationally wants it to happen (If these young people were sitting around planning independence or avoiding taxes , do you think the government wouldn't act?). Large scale problems in societies happen because the government's want them to happen otherwise they use the full force of the state to stop them.