NYC Gala Postponed in Face of Pogroms Controversy

SikhNN
By Anju Kaur

About 3000 Sikhs were killed in 2 days in Delhi, Nov. 1984

WASHINGTON, DC – The Sikh Art and Film Foundation in New York City has postponed its annual gala this week in response to the rising controversy about its decision to honor Indian government officials on the 28th anniversary of the 1984 pogroms. This festive event coincides with the anniversary of the government-planned systematic slaughter and rape of thousands of Sikhs throughout the length and breadth of India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Since 2004, the foundation has held its annual Sikh International Film Festival as its mission of community outreach and awareness, said Tejinder Singh Bindra, its president, in an email to SikhNN. “Above all, the Sikh Art and Film Foundation’s raison d’être was founded as, and remains to celebrate Sikhi, not to divide the Sikh community,” Tejinder Singh told SikhNN.  [link]