Dr. Amarjeet Singh

About 10 years ago Giani Nahar Singh Jee went on a parchaar tour around the US east coast. They came back and brought with him a tape of someone named Amarjeet Singh, talking about Punjab and what happened to Sikhs and Punjabis in Punjab and around India after the creation of Punjab State.

Click to listen to that tape here

The speech was given out on a tape by the International Sikh Youth Federation, which someone gave to giani jee to on his visit there. It was Amarjeet Singh’s response to comments Kuldip Nayer had made at the very same stage at that Chicago gurdwara some time earlier about forgetting the past and being friends with hindu India once again.

above:Him sitting far left

What he said in that tape is still one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. The talks about politics dating back to Guru Sahib’s times quoting from the Zafarnama, then to the sikh missals and maharaja Ranjeet Singh’s rule. About the character of the Sikhs and the spirit of sarbat da bhala. About contributions made by Sikhs and how ungrateful and deceitful the ‘bhramanical hindu machinery’ turned out to be.

All that was fine and dandy and deserved to be said, BUT I don’t know what he actually accomplished by speaking after it was already too long too late. And making it public just shows what kind of failure people who control guru’s panthic stages really were back then, which I think was a good reason to distribute it.

One day while flipping though the chardi kala weekly paper (which I rarely did) I saw a column written by him. What he had written was pretty interesting and well researched; it really made me think what was going on in the world’s largest democracy.

He was later called to the annual UBC SSA conference(’97 or ’98 not sure) to speak on human rights violations and Sikh sovereignty. I had a chance to talk to him for a bit afterwards and he indeed seemed like a truly panthic person who actually knew what he was talking about and where he stood on the issues he talked about.

Him and his group also run a website exposing how minorities are suppressed in India. His Khalistan calling articles are interesting to read, but I’m not sure how many people he actually gets across to. They even have old editions of this column online here in the archives section.

Over the years most people have said they don’t trust him and dismiss him as a Pakistani or US agent. I really dont know what to say, you be the judge...