Over the last year, the Home Office reported an estimated 7% increase in hate crime in England and Wales. There are a multitude of reasons behind this; political parties will blame the politics of the other, whilst perpetrators justify their actions as a legitimate defence against an enemy of their
Many of our readers will be aware of the events that transpired at Cornell University in 2024. Where does the responsibility lie, when somebody is stripped of their bodily autonomy? Is it that society has failed to socialise men, or that institutions fail to adequately punish the perpetrators? Or both?
On September 9, the US Department of Homeland Security published an AI-generated image as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against undocumented immigration. Styled as a parody of the Transformers franchise, the image showed a DHS-branded version of Optimus Prime confronting a brown-skinned, bearded man wearing
Language is not merely a tool for communication; it frames reality, dictates law enforcement responses, shapes justice, and determines community safety. When violent attacks against Sikhs are reduced to broad categories like "anti-Indian" or "anti-Brown" hate crime, it erases the distinct theological, cultural, and
When Rajeev Masand referred to the events of 1984 as “riots” during an interview with Diljit Dosanjh, Diljit stopped him. The actor was discussing Jogi, his film about the violence against Sikhs following the killing of Indira Gandhi, when he objected to Masand's terminology. Diljit said that the
The fatal stabbing of Kirandeep Kaur, allegedly by 46-year-old Daniel Sean James, has reverberated across Britain's Sikh community, reigniting long-standing anxieties about the vulnerability of visibly identifiable minorities. While the circumstances surrounding the attack remain the subject of legal proceedings, the incident has nevertheless prompted
I recently read an article by Gurdeep Singh Sappal, Permanent Invitee to the Congress Overseas Committee, published in The Wire under the title Why Punjab's Wounds Must Not Be Reopened: A Long Walk to Reconciliation. It is a piece that claims to advocate reconciliation, but in reality exemplifies
When former Punjab police chief KPS Gill passed away, a veteran communist leader , Sitaram Yechury, attended his funeral and paid tribute to him, describing him as a “nek banda” (a good person). Many may argue that such a tribute was shaped by the history of violence during Punjab’s militancy
Last July, while attending the Punjabi Conference in Leicester, I listened to Nuzhat Abbas narrate Jalandhar Kitthe Hai. Something about that story plucked at the strings of my heart. It transported me back to my grandmother, who, in the final years of her life, would often speak of the lanes
The murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, along with the initial failures of police officers who treated him as a suspect, has sparked anti immigration rhetoric across Britain, and Southampton saw the worst of it. This case raises serious questions about police decision-making and accountability, including the fact
It has been over four decades since June 1984, yet for the Sikh community, the wounds of that year remain raw , as fresh and as devastating as if they had been inflicted yesterday. The horrors of Operation Blue Star not only left a trail of physical destruction but a deep
Introduction The rise of Sidhu Moosewala from a small village in Punjab to one of the most influential Punjabi artists in the world represents one of the most significant cultural phenomena in contemporary South Asia. More than a singer or rapper, Moosewala became a symbol through which millions of Punjabis—