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Balle Balle, Bhangra and deshbhakti: why the positive stereotyping of Sikhs by Bollywood should bother us Positive stereotyping ends up otherising the community, whereas what a deeply divided India desperately needs is the representation of minorities as regular people, “one of us”. Anna MM Vetticad December 22, 2020 16:05:56 IST Akshay Kumar in Kesari
As a child growing up in Delhi, I remember not viewing Sikhism as a faith separate from Hinduism and vaguely assuming it was a sect of India’s majority religion. Until the 1984 riots, that is. That was when a close friend told me how a Hindu neighbour – thankfully, only one – called aside some boys in our locality and in hushed tones told them to keep their bats and hockey sticks ready for any eventuality “