bulleshah

While I have come to respect some of your more nuanced posts on this board, it seems rather plain that the manner in which you present your views indicate an attmept to provoke trouble. I hope I'm wrong.

In any case, let us deal with Bhagat Singh.

Do you think that Punjabis (Sikhs or otherwise) are that thick as to not know that Bhagat Singh was a clean shaven atheist? Do you think that the only reason he is respected and revered is becasue someone decided to put a pagri on his head? If so, then you are sadly mistaken.
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hard-talk/8786-bhagat-singh.html
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=8786

Punabis generally (and Sikhs particularly) recognise good people who fight for justice and righteousness. That is the reason he is revered by 'the people'. Whether or not he was a Marxist-atheist or not does not matter. Also, Sikhs see it as an honour that he was born into a Sikh family (not Tat Khalsa or whatever, just Sikh).

As regards to 'Indian history', most of what we have today (from all aspects and accounts - Sikh, hindu or Muslim) is largely fictitious. The only notable (ie honest) Sikh historians of modern times have been the late Ganda Singh and Khushwant Singh (yes, his politics are dubious at times but he writes first class history). Anyway, people like Bhagat Singh and his memory are hijacked by all and sundry in order to score cheap political points.

The rest of your post has little to do with Bhagat Singh but I will attempt to address it anyway.

Your general argument on this thread and on many others is that the construction of religious boundaries (or labels) was a British innovation in order to 'divide and rule'. You are correct. But what you consistently fail to realise is that the boudaries have been drawn and they cannot be undrawn. It's too late for that. Why, because Pakistan was created, 1984 happened and people are still getting butchered because of these lines. So where do we go from here? That is the question. Your argument that we should all become 'Sikh-Hindu' (whatever that means), or more accurately, we should just become 'people' again (rather than all these labels) can and perhaps should be seen as noble and idealistic but it is not realistic.