Just saw SATLUJ and it is not a film , but a deep wound that will never heal. It stirs up the sludge in one of the darkest chapters of our history
This is cinema used as confrontation , where @diljitdosanjh acts with a quiet fury with no chest thumping heroism.. His only weapons are a ledger and a conscience. @rampalarjun adds layers of moral rot in the institutional complicity that feels chillingly realistic
Director @honeytrehan instead of sensationalising the horror unfolds the film like a slow burn investigative thriller through bureaucratic files, cremation records, and hushed conversations
This restraint makes the brutality of the subject matter hit that much harder because it explodes with the force of truth and not exploitation.
The philosophical core of the film about how a democracy devours its own citizens and then tries to erase the evidence is explored without any preachiness and that’s no normal
achievement .
The various issues surrounding its exhibition and publication prove that any art which makes the powerful uncomfortable has done its job, and that is the true purpose of true art , which SATLUJ is .
It is highly courageous essential filmmaking because it unsettles, educates, and lingers . In the times where main stream chases spectacle and popcorn cinema , SUTLEJ shoots out a hard reminder of what cinematic medium can truly achieve when it takes on truth and honesty
SATLUJ is a film that has to be seen , shown, discussed, debated and not ENCOUNTERED like the victims in the film
My appeal to all the powers is , please don’t do to SATLUJ what has been done to JASWANT SINGH KALRA 🙏🙏🙏
TRUTH HITS HARDER when one tries to HIDE IT .
— AYN RAND
To the people who are defending the actions of Punjab Police, we know you very well. Our people had decoded your mindset decades ago.
Nationalism has blinded the whole world. Indians are no exception.
$1.4 billion in federal loans, your money, subsidized this Sen̓áḵw project. They called it 'affordable housing.' Now three-bedrooms are renting for over $9,000 to $12,500 a month.
Pure NDP-style fraud: subsidize luxury with taxpayer cash and pretend it's helping regular families. Enough of this garbage.
The World Lives Here.
Canada is all together different. Truly unique. And so is our relationship to the beautiful game. This is our opening to the 2026 World Cup. Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. #FIFAWorldCup
@Bhau191919@Rfudvd Yeah but things had relatively stabilized a few years after, the current conflict really kicked off after gurmit dhak was killed afaik.
@Bhau191919@Rfudvd Yeah I mean it’s a cyclical problem. It’s the same gang war that’s been going on for the last 30 years. Things heat up every few years and then calm down but it doesn’t affect us in any way. There is no reason for a guy like me to feel afraid anywhere at any time.
@Bhau191919@Rfudvd The whole thing was enabled by the police not really caring about them and these guys couldn’t shoot straight to save their life. Then so many of them started doing it that they had to be taken seriously and it is on a downtrend too but you gotta be wary of these guys still..
@Bhau191919@Rfudvd That’s totally false man. Civilians have nothing to worry about from the local gangs, they at least act like men and only go after each other.
The new immigrant “gangsters” can’t really operate in the same domains as them so they bother civilians with extortions and shit.
@PatriotHeroLgnd The Anglo-Saxons barely contributed most of the work was done by insiders who betrayed their homeland. In fact, the British Commando was prepared for full capitulation and even admitted that without the betrayal the Sikhs would have annihilated British India.
In remembrance of the gallant defenders who stood steadfast and made their final stand during the June 1984 siege of Sri Darbar Sahib and the Akal Takht.
ਜੋ ਸੂਰਾ ਤਿਸ ਹੀ ਹੋਇ ਮਰਣਾ ॥
jo sooraa tis hee hoi maranaa ||
He alone is a man of courage, dead to the world.
ਜੋ ਭਾਗੈ ਤਿਸੁ ਜੋਨੀ ਫਿਰਣਾ ॥
jo bhaagai tis jonee firanaa ||
One who runs away will wander in reincarnation.
- Gurū Arjan Dev Jī, Rāg Mārū, Srī Gurū Granth Sāhib Jī, Ang 1019.
ਅੱਜ ਵੈਰੀਆਂ ਕੱਢ ਵਿਖਾਲਿਆ
ਹੈ ਪੰਜ ਸਦੀਆਂ ਦਾ ਵੈਰ ।
Today, the enemy has dragged it into the light and displayed it before the multitude.
This is the vengeance and enmity of five unbroken centuries.
- Stanza 7, Navā̃ Ghallūghārā, A. A. Randhāwā.
@indian_nagrik@HarUniversity@AnuragKunduAK Not paid to argue man, you’re not fooling anyone. It’s bad enough that everyone knows what it’s like I don’t need to argue with propaganda accounts anymore. There’s a reason even you don’t live there.
@indian_nagrik@HarUniversity@AnuragKunduAK Man leave the online world and actually get out, talk to people or try to do something in your fucking cockroach life. How would they get any bribes if you could just bypass them? This shit exists on technicalities, it doesn’t work in practice.
@indian_nagrik@AnuragKunduAK Are you retarded? Do you know how things actually work in real life?
Show me how do you sell urban property in Punjab using e-registry
What the anti-Sikh peddlers of misinformation among certain Indian Hindu radicals will least wish to hear is this: Sarbrah Sir Arur Singh of Naushera Nangli was recorded in British intelligence reports as an aristocratic Sanatani Sikh of the “old type”, one distinctly unpopular with the “new Sikhs or the Jat Khalsa.”
The centuries-old jealousy and passive aggression displayed by certain sections of Indian Hindus manifests itself in precisely this sort of mass misinformation. In my estimation, the underlying reason is that their own temples remain under the mismanagement of the Indian government, while they envy the self-respect shown by other religious communities that have successfully resisted such a sorry state of affairs.