A Semiological Perspective
– Bhupinder Singh –
Theoretically, a Sikh cannot be a communalist, even a nationalist – nationalism being a form of communalism – but only a universalist, one set against all artificial boundaries separating man from man and man from nature and God
Partition contravened the fundamentals of the Sikh faith. In a manner of speaking, it abolished the raison d’être of the Sikhs qua Sikhs. The Sikh dream of a multi-centric plural society was all in a shambles and pieces
To strive for a real federation within India and, beyond that, for a confederation of all States in the Subcontinent – that is the role betting the Sikhs in the present conjuncture
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