The Straits Times Podcasts S1E102: Canada-India relations on the rocks over separatist delusion
US-Canada relations have plunged, but Canada should learn to accommodate India’s security concerns.
Synopsis: Every fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US Bureau Chief Nirmal Ghosh shines a light on Asian perspectives of global and Asian issues with expert guests.
Relations between India and Canada have plunged since Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” that Indian agents killed Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, in June.
Nirmal hosts two guests to get a better insight on the Canada-India relations:
1. Christine Fair is a renowned expert on South Asia, author of numerous books on aspects of South Asia, and professor in the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
2. Terry Milewski is a former journalist who wrote the 2021 book “Blood for Blood – fifty years of the Global Khalistan Project.”
Highlights (click/tap above):
3:45 The late Sikh militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale is a Che Guevara-style icon for Sikh youth
6:15 Canada has normalised the display of terrorist iconography
7:30 Worship of a martyr cult
14:13 Khalistanis have appropriated black musical culture reflecting structural racism
19:50 Khalistanis are rewriting history
Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg) and Fa’izah Sani
Edited by: Fa’izah Sani
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