June 2026 marks the 42nd anniversary of Operation Blue Star, the June 1984 Indian military assault on the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, Punjab. The event is commemorated globally by the Sikh community as a Ghallughara (holocaust or massacre), serving as a critical turning point that catalyzed decades of friction, human rights concerns, and […]
Transnational
From Golden Temple to Transnational Repression!
42 years on, the desecration of the holy Sikh worship place ‘Golden Temple’ in Amritsar reminds the world about one of the most heinous minority persecutions of Indian history. Operation “Blue Star” is widely perceived by the Sikh community as the defining moment of state-sponsored oppression in India because it involved a direct, unprovoked military […]