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When the Sikhs started their agitation, it was mainly political, with no religious overtones. Sant Bhindranwale provoked no violence [WORLD, June 18]. Indira Gandhi and the Hindu majority in India are to blame for the slaughter that the army committed in the Golden Temple. Sikhs worldwide have never been more united. Even "moderate" Sikhs now demand a separate state, because they know they cannot get justice from the Hindu majority...
Your article on the attack at the Golden Temple painted a gruesome picture of the plight of Sikhs and other minorities in India. With its poverty-stricken masses, India will disintegrate within the next ten to 15 years. There is no central figure after Indira Gandhi to keep that country together. The uprising of the Sikhs is just the beginning of the end of "united" India...
...Gandhi can probably no longer negotiate with most of the moderate leaders of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party. A few, in fact, are now regarded as cowards by the enraged Sikh community. She will have to await the emergence of a suitable Sikh leader, possibly retired Lieut. General Jagjit Singh Aurora, a hero of the 1971 Bangladesh war. In the past the Sikhs have sought the exclusive use of Chandigarh, the Le Corbusier-designed city that since the creation of the predominantly Hindu state of Haryana out of the heavily Sikh Punjab in 1966 has served...
...aftermath of the storming of the Golden Temple, Mrs. Gandhi described her decision as a "painful" one. But then, as she has done during previous crises, she tried to shift the blame to external sources, charging that Pakistan and perhaps the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had played a part in inspiring the Sikh separatist movement. Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq angrily denied those charges. "There is no truth to the allegations," Zia told TIME. "To the contrary, Pakistan has gone out of its way to normalize its relations with India." He added that the Indians were only...
...India faced a gaping, long-term payments deficit. The previous year its oil-import bill had jumped to $5 billion and foreign exchange reserves had fallen by $1.4 billion in seven months. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, then newly returned to office, responded by negotiating the largest loan in the history of the IMF, $5.8 billion. Critics in New Delhi immediately charged that she had plunged the country into a "debt trap." Yet last November, Mrs. Gandhi announced that her government would not need the last $1.1 billion installment of the loan. What had happened? Increased domestic oil production and remittances...