Today is a good day.
The news that Manmohan Singh, a fellow Sikh, is to become the next Prime Minister of India - has made me happy.
It's about time the world realized who Sikhs are. Sikh achievements in commerce, politics, the armed forces, arts and music, are out of all proportion to our minority status. I hope Manmohan Singh manages to knock some sense into the empty headed politicians in both France and the US.
If I sound partisan or tribalistic, or even nationalistic, then I unashamedly make no apologies. We've gone through a lot of crap historically, including attempted genocide by various rulers of India, the Anglo-Sikh wars, the 1947 Partition, the subsequent dismemberment of East Punjab into Haryana and Himachal Pradesh by the Hindi speaking lobby, the 1984 Delhi riots, the 9/11 backlash against innocent Sikhs etc.
Today is a good day. :-)
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