Blood in the Satluj: The Terror Punjab Chose to Forget
The killings of Hindus in Punjab, the bus and train massacres, and how KPS Gill broke the Khalistani insurgency form a history that the modern retelling of Punjab has quietly edited out.
Read MoreReferendum 2020 and After: The Khalistan Question Today
Unaudited diaspora plebiscites, the Amritpal episode and its sympathy vote, drones and designations at the edges, and no measurable constituency in Punjab itself: the Khalistan question today, assessed without inflation or innocence.
Read MoreThe Diaspora Factor: Money, Ideology and Khalistan Abroad
Treasury, propaganda arm and sanctuary for hundreds; grieving remitters and eventual rejectors in their millions. The Sikh diaspora's real role in the Khalistan years, and the asymmetry that keeps exile politics alive after Punjab moved on.
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The Panthic Committees and the Declaration of Khalistan, 1986
From a Sarbat Khalsa at the scarred Akal Takht, a five member Panthic Committee proclaimed Khalistan on April 29, 1986 and announced the Khalistan Commando Force. The declaration, Barnala's fatal response, and the franchise of factions it founded.
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The Khalistan Idea: Where the Demand Came From and Who Carried It
Never endorsed by the Akalis, never victorious in an election, strongest abroad and weakest at home: the strange history of the Khalistan demand, and how 1984 turned an emigre idea into a fighting faith.
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