You mean to say he was okay to kill the people who hurt his family & taking law & order in his own hands rather than going to the court over Jaswant Singh Khalra for NOT taking the law & order in his own hands and going to the court instead?
In the first 36 years of his rule, a Sikh King donated the gold to Kashi Vishwanath temple in 1835.
In the first 36 years of Indian state, they attacked Golden Temple with bullets on two separate occasions in 1955 and again in 1984.
We glaze our empire for good reasons.
A well-built man, over six feet tall, 35-year-old Jaswinder Singh was posted in Tripura with the 42 Battalion of the Border Security Force. On 3 March, he was on leave at home—in the border village of Diwangarh, around forty kilometres south-west of Jammu—when the Narcotics Control Bureau, an agency that comes under the union home ministry, picked him up. What followed was a seventeen-day ordeal that ended in his death.
Jaswinder’s family had no access to him during this time, other than a four-minute distress call that he was able to make from the NCB office in Jammu, ten days after he was detained. His wife, Lovejeet Kour, told me that he begged for help on this call, saying that he was facing unbearable torture at the hands of the narcotics officials. “My biggest fear used to be his safety on the border in Tripura, far from home. I feared him dying at the border,” she said. “But not like this—literally being frisked away while he was on leave and at home, and dying by torture in NCB custody.”
Read Jatinder Kaur Tur's (@jatinder_tur) report in The Caravan's May 2026 issue: https://t.co/AxPOCrsfy3 #BSF #NCB
1. 🚩You will never find a Sikh named “Suresh”. That’s a Hindu name.
2. 🚩Sikhs don’t cut their beard. Let alone a clean shaven face.
3. 🚩Sikhs don’t cut their hair underneath a turban.
4. 🚩A Sikh would never say “I don’t care about my turban, I only care about you.”
Imagine going out of your way to ragebait Sikhs, who are largely some of the kindest and most helpful folks you'd be lucky to meet.
A random Sikh man invited me to his gurdwara for free lunch once because I happened to get stuck in the rain in Glasgow. Tyler needs to get a grip.
5th June, 1984.
On this night, the Indian Army launched a major assault and invasion of the Golden Temple Complex under Operation Blue Star.
The operation with more than 10,000 army personnel with tanks and artillery and 1,00,000 armed personnel as a backup was aimed at removing Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his 150+ followers, but what unfolded was far more devastating.
It was Guru Arjan Dev Ji’s Shaheedi Gurpurab, a sacred day. Thousands of innocent devotees, including women and children, had come to pay their respects. Instead, they found themselves caught in a brutal military siege.
Tanks, artillery, and machine guns were used in the sacred complex. The Akal Takht, the temporal seat of Sikh authority, was heavily damaged.
Media was blacked out, communications cut off. There is only one photograph of army tank available (shared with this post). Eyewitness account mention the number of tanks to be 4 backed by bazooka guns.
Historical manuscripts, Sikh relics, and scriptures were destroyed. Reports of indiscriminate firing, unrecorded deaths, and mass cremations haunt the memory of that night.
What happened on 5th June wasn’t just a security operation - it was a deep wound on Sikh identity, faith, and dignity. The trauma of that night lives on in every Sikh household.
We remember the martyrs. We remember the truth.
We will never forget.
#OperationBlueStar #SikhHistory #NeverForget1984
Light Eternal
In the quiet dawn, a light was born,
Guru Nanak, to guide the forlorn.
With words of truth, so pure, so wise,
He lifted hearts, made spirits rise.
"One Creator," his voice proclaimed,
No caste, no creed, no soul defamed.
Equality’s flame he boldly ignited,
In love and service, all united.
Through humble paths, his footsteps tread,
Where rivers flowed and hearts were fed.
A beacon still, his teachings gleam,
Of peace, compassion, and a timeless dream.
Oh Nanak, your wisdom lights our way,
A guiding star through night and day.
~ Saint Soldier