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With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies
T. SHER SINGH
Here at sikhchic.com, we observe the policy of ignoring, as far as possible, the day to day shenanigans of the bandits who seem to have taken over Sikh and Punjab affairs in India.
Today, however, we have chosen to make an exception.
A man named Onkar Singh Thapar is a minor politician with a far reach into the corridors of power, and plies the petty wiles of his trade between New Delhi and Punjab. He is often seen closely associated with the scoundrels who are running the land into the ground.
I will ask you to view a very short, 21-second video clip depicting the man as he is recording a political statement on camera, obviously for public broadcast purposes.
He begins by spouting homilies on basic democratic rights - he waxes poetic in Punjabi -- and then, when his wife, who remains off camera, inadvertently makes a clatter, he instantly bursts into a fit of out-of-control anger and insults her.
“Fuck-your-sister!” are the words, in their crudest form, that automatically, clearly, emanate from his mouth, as he publicly derides her.
They are words that are usually used by the uneducated and the uncouth in India as the ultimate insult to another.
It highlights how low India has gone in the quality of leadership that plagues it today, and how completely pervasive that same cancer has now spread within the Sikh and Punjabi leadership in the country.
Not only is there a complete absence of decorum and decency, but the very basic principles of Sikhi -- such as respect and dignity of the female half of our society, especially one’s spouse and family members -- have been surrendered to the lowest common denominator that India has to offer.
Here’s the video: you judge the boor for yourself.
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April 29, 2013
Conversation about this article
1: G C Singh (USA), April 29, 2013, 9:34 AM.
Sikhs were very agitated after the Indian army's attack on Darbar Sahib and a large number of them had collected at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in New Delhi. Of course, this place was teeming with plain-clothes policemen and other government spies inside the premises, and there was a large police force deployed outside. I think it was 6th or 7th June, 1984 when I went to Bangla Sahib and I came across Onkar Singh Thapar wearing a freshly laundered white Safari suit, surrounded by a small group of people. I asked him what was happening. After a small talk about the recent events, he said he was "underground".
2: Gurmeet Kaur (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), April 29, 2013, 11:06 AM.
Moron! Talking about human rights and treating his wife like a piece of crap. Another boor that deserves a spot here on the Wall of Shame is SAD's Youth-wing president; a minister in the Akali Govt. and the brother-in-law of Sukhbir Singh Badal - Bikramjit Singh Majithia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyPrKrGET7c
3: Dr Birinder Singh Ahluwalia (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), April 29, 2013, 12:52 PM.
I wish to register my objection to the language being described in this article, even though it may represent the exact words which were spoken by the individual. The message could have been conveyed by redacting the words in a fashion whereby the gist of the meaning of the (expletive) expressions is still conveyed. In that way the story is fully told while maintaining the highest standards of journalism.
4: Y Singh (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), April 29, 2013, 2:31 PM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFMAZuni_A -- To add to his achievements, please check out this video.
5: SSN (USA), April 29, 2013, 4:13 PM.
Even more distressing, besides the videos shared in the post and in the comments, are the comments on Youtube. If you can comprehend what is being said, you would know where we are with Sikhs and Punjab. I can claim to know Mr. Thapar through his son.
6: A Singh (Bay Area, California, USA), April 29, 2013, 7:50 PM.
I disagree with Dr. Ahluwalia, I don't think that the author sacrificed any standards of journalism in using the true language that was spoken. In fact, quite the opposite.
7: Raj (Canada), April 29, 2013, 10:45 PM.
The goonda element has crept into our gurdwara managements, taking advantage of the generous nature of the community. It's time clean it up.
8: Manpreet Singh (Hyderabad, India), April 30, 2013, 2:02 AM.
Oh, this guy is a joker. He stays in West Delhi. My father did seva during the construction of a local gurdwara and the charity hospital run by the Gurdwara Trust. During that time my father came in contact with him. Every election year he comes to our home and pleads for votes and even requests my father to do the same on his behalf. My father has never been part of gurdwara politics, so he simply avoids him as much as possible.
9: Sangat Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), April 30, 2013, 8:28 PM.
Onkar Singh Thapar would be better suited to be renamed as Om Prakash Thapar after listening to his warped political speech at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFMAZuni_A. In trying to please his political masters he has totally demonstrated his ignorance of gurbani. He sounds like Hindu preachers who, intent on gaining political mileage, are fond of saying that Guru Granth Sahib was replete with reference to 'Ram' on every page. They would like us to believe that the Ram thus referred to is the Hindu Ram who was Dashrath's son. Sure, there is mention of him but as Ram Chand, the king of Ayodhhya and the mythological figure of Ramayan fame. 'raam ga-i-o raavan ga-i-o jaa ka-o baho parvaar' [GGS:1429.3] - Raam (Chand, the Hindu king) came and went, as did Raawan, though each had huge families to help them". They even like to think the mention of 'Raghunath' in Slok M9 (GGS:1429.8] refers to Ram's tribe. The truth is that the Ram referred to in the Guru Granth Sahib - other than in the clearly mythological citations - is one of the Sikh terms for God, in whose honour Dashrath had named his son; it has nothing to do with the Hindu king Ram. Thapar is guilty on several counts of distorting our scripture.
10: Gurmeet Kaur (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), May 01, 2013, 7:38 PM.
Don't forget to greet Mr. Om Prakash Thapar with a "Jai Siya Raam" next time you see him.
11: H. Kaur (Canada), May 03, 2013, 3:15 AM.
What I thought was humourous was how he just continues lecturing on rights after being so rude to his poor wife. I don't think the poor fellow even knows what he did was wrong. Wonder how he treats his wife when the cameras aren't around.