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Turmoil in Punjab

Before and After Blue Star: An Insider's Story

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Turmoil in Punjab

By: Adwait Karambelkar, Ramesh Inder Singh
Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar
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Punjab went through a politically turbulent period between 1978 and 1994, triggered by the rift between Sikhs and Nirankaris, and fuelled by the operations Blue Star, Woodrose and Black Thunder I and II. Narrated as an eyewitness account by Ramesh Inder Singh, then the district magistrate of Amritsar, and later the chief secretary of Punjab, this book affords an insider's view of the events that ignited the strife and created the socio-political fault lines that divided Punjab in those years. It also describes the terrorist violence in Punjab, the state response to the military operations, the death of thousands of innocent citizens, the shocking assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the subsequent lynching of close to 3,000 Sikhs in the national capital of Delhi, which set in motion a devastating ethno-national movement in Punjab.

Based on extensive research and first-hand accounts of those who lived through those volcanic years, Turmoil in Punjab: Before and After Blue Star is an eye-opening narrative of the genesis of the Punjab conflict, the rise of radicalism and the Khalistanis, and the elimination of militancy from the state.

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The narrating is very much told to make the Indian government look like the good guys and the Sikhs are made to look like terrorists and extremists, but as we all know that is all lies, you just have to watch the news and see agents of India being sent to assassinate Sikh voices in places like USA,Canada and UK. Sikhs were promised there own homeland when they agreed to stay on the Indian side of the Border following the British departure, the British purposefully freezer a border to cause maximum pain to the Sikh homeland as the Sikhs were the ones they were most scared to go to war with. Sikhs have become part of India but India has continued to treat Sikhs as second class citizens with unequal rights and the erosion of Punjab and Sikhi which has been done slowly through lack of education and the push of narcotics into Punjab, The Arrests of Sikhs who race their voice and the fake encounters are still ongoing trying to auffercate the Sikh voice in Punjab, this Narrator has tried his best not portraye Sikhs in a good light. This is the ongoing Properganda of the Indian Government to misreprete the truth.

told through the eyes of the Indian Government

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