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VANCOUVER â Much has been made of the controversy surrounding Hartosh Singh Bal, an Indian journalist and nephew of the âButcher of Punjabâ KPS Gill, under whose murderous reign in Punjab saw the extrajudicial killing of thousands of innocent Sikh men.
While some mainstream and Indian media has painted this as an affront to free speech by radicalized Sikh students at the University of British Columbia with one deranged former politician, an avid anti-Sikh individual, who has gone berserk, threatening to burn his useless UBC degree or throw it in the garbage (he did neither), but UBC Sikh students say it has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with human rights and a failure by Bal to address his uncleâs reign of terror that claimed the life of acclaimed human rights activist Dr. Jaswant Singh Kalra.
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The UBC Sikh Students Association released the following open letter explaining its opposition to the political editor of Caravan, Hartosh Singh Bal, participating in the Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program. It was addressed to UBC president Santa Ono and Faculty of Arts dean Gage Averill.
April 12, 2021
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa! Waheguru ji ki Fateh!
We, the UBC Sikh Students’ Association, wish to share our concerns in regard to the baseless allegations that are circulating to malign the Sikh community and misinform the public about the circumstances in which this year’s Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program was cancelled.
Canadaâs UBC cancels journalist Hartosh Balâs event amid âpressureâ from Sikh activists
Canadaâs UBC cancels journalist Hartosh Balâs event amid âpressureâ from Sikh activists
Bal was scheduled to speak at UBCâs Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial programme. But alleged pressure from radical Sikh activists forced the university to cancel it.
Neelam Pandey 10 April, 2021 6:20 pm IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: The Punjab Studies department of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada has cancelled this yearâs Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial programme, where journalist Hartosh Singh Bal, the political editor at
Caravan magazine, was scheduled to speak.