I hereby condemn the Sajid Khan’s self-correcting, egoist, ignorant & uncalled remarks specifically over the Gatka (ਗਤਕਾ, The Sikh Martial Art) and generally over the Sikh spirits in an episode of “India’s Got Talent”. Sajid Khan is unaware brat who doesn’t know even the iota about the martial spirits in Sikhs which emerged as need of time.
He said that use of sword by a five year old kid during performance of Gatka is complete violence, along with additional uncalled comments. Using his power as one of the jury members, he just rejected to accept it as talent of the Gatka Group which had performed on the stage of "India's Got Talent". He just left his seat when other members of the jury try to explain the context and made this an issue of of his ego.
He is completely ignorant where Gatka is coming from in the history. It was the time of 18 century when infants and little kids were being killed while tossed in air & caught on spears, cold-bloodedly, in front of their imprisoned Sikh mothers to force them to conversion of religion, irrespective of their ages, during the times of Mir Mannu as Governor of Lahore. That was the actual ruthless, butcher-kind and evil, against which Sikhs fought over 2 centuries single handily.
He said that use of sword by a five year old kid during performance of Gatka is complete violence, along with additional uncalled comments. Using his power as one of the jury members, he just rejected to accept it as talent of the Gatka Group which had performed on the stage of "India's Got Talent". He just left his seat when other members of the jury try to explain the context and made this an issue of of his ego.
He is completely ignorant where Gatka is coming from in the history. It was the time of 18 century when infants and little kids were being killed while tossed in air & caught on spears, cold-bloodedly, in front of their imprisoned Sikh mothers to force them to conversion of religion, irrespective of their ages, during the times of Mir Mannu as Governor of Lahore. That was the actual ruthless, butcher-kind and evil, against which Sikhs fought over 2 centuries single handily.
There was a famous Sikh saying of those days:
Mannu Sadi Datri Asi Mannu de Soye
Jiyon Jiyon Mannu Vadhda Asi Doon Sawaye Hoye
Means
Governor Mir Mannu is Sickle for us and we are like crops to him.
As much as he cuts us we just grow more in terms of spirits as well as in numbers..
Two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, Baba Zorawar Singh & Baba Fateh Singh were merely 7 & 9 years of age when they were murdered monstrously by Nawab of Sirhind by beheading after being bricked up alive in a wall in Dec 1705 AD.
In that kind of situations, martial art of Gatka became a need for every Sikh and even for the kids to protect the others as well as for self defence. So it shows his idiot to start an egoistic argument about the issue he is not aware about at all.
Kiran Kher, being of Punjabi background, might be more aware about this heritage martial art. So she rightly opposed that uncalled remarks. But being not a historian and intellect, her opposition lacked the point of references from history.
Channel producer used these uncalled remarks by an idiot as controversy to sell his episode, which is equally condemnable.
I also wished that the Gatka group hasn’t gone to that stage, because this valuable heritage has to be presented only in front of the audiences who are aware about its stature and have respect for it.
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