And dont forget the Great General Zorawar Singh....under whom my forefathers fought for the Great Dogra Army.
Guys..i am a hindu rajput..i have been following this thread and read many comments on what rights and wrongs Rajputs did.
I feel this is a thread about Sikhism and discussions should only be about that.Anyone having an 'urge' to crticise rajputs can open a seperate thread and can come up with his tribe or region and we will discuss both Rajputs and the criticisers tribe in detail.
And moreover you can crticise Rajputs for not having great leaders but never question their bravery.
Comming on topic:-
This article while praising Sikhs passed some racist comments on Bengalis.I dont know about the Sikhs who like this article but if i was a Sikh i wont have liked it coz i dont want people to praise me or my tribe at the cost of passing cheap comments about others.
I dont care if the author calls himself watever and if this is his writing style....tommorow if he calls me a motherf**ker..i wont say that "look he called himself a motherf##ker too"
Secondly there is nothing to be proud of Operation Bluestar..if at all the millitants managed to hold up was because of the fact that a "traitor" Sikh General of the Indian Army trained them.
This article praises Sikhs for OP Bluestar...if this is the case then we shouldnt be hurt by some Pakistanis being proud of Ajmal kasab.
Maybe Sikhs in Canada can be proud of this article..and be a helping hand to the Khalistan freedom fighters in Canada.
Dear Sir,
It's good to hear from someone with a connection to Zorawar Singh, one of the greatest generals that India had, and perhaps given less than his due because of the theatre in which he operated. Not many realise that the border between India and China today, Tibet as a subordinate region of China as it was then, was determined by the peace treaty between the representatives of the Dogra Durbar and the Tibetan representatives, acting without the authority of the Chinese imperial delegate to the Tibetan court. This treaty of 1841 was why we have a difficult time with the border, which was unfortunately never put into a settled state by the British subsequently.
The events leading to this peace treaty were stirring and makes brave reading.
Regarding the racist comments about Bengalis, what about the comments? Should we worry what the man writes? Suffice it to say that the Bengali resistance to the martial races should be sufficient to speak for itself, and we should not pay attention to these slanders. As far as the Pakistani Army is concerned, you could ask some of its older officers about the performance of the 1st Tigers in 65; there was some slight exaggeration - it wasn't standard doctrine to jump under Indian tanks with mines in their hands - but it was a brave performance and spoke for itself.
Regarding the 'traitor' Sikh general, this is one of the saddest things in our military history. Shahbeg Singh was a brilliant irregular forces commander - a Pakistani defence site is not the best place to recount his deeds, but if you write to me in private, you would learn about his outstanding record. He landed up with some feeling of neglect and of having been insufficiently rewarded, there was a court of enquiry which involved funds, he was censured, and that did it. He resigned in a huff and over time, gravitated to Bhindranwale's camp. Every account of Blue Star makes it clear how much his old comrades feared his participation, and how much that participation lived up to their fears. Nil nisi mortuis bonum.
This piece was not written in good taste, but unfortunately, everybody seems to be missing the point. It was not meant to be in good taste; it is the equivalent of the shock jock shows in the US, here the difference being that the author writes a story with tongue thoroughly in cheek, and in a wildly-exaggerated, over-the-top fashion. That's his selling point, that offensive style, and there's not much point in getting offended. If, as a Bengali, I can hold myself back, there is no reason others can't; it'd be silly to lose one's cool over this frivolous article, which means to entertain and does so with sly competence.
Sincerely,
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