MADE IN CANADA: A NEW SIKH UPRISING

While the original Punjab separatist movement of the 1980s was rooted in Punjab, and thereafter spread abroad, a new version of the campaign is slowly emerging. The ban is one manifestation — being spurred by the diaspora, particularly in Canada. The objective, which worries the governments in both New Delhi and Chandigarh, is to have it exported back into India as the second coming of Khalistan.