Re: Indian Sikh- Why they are never shown as hero ?
Its usually a tradition in Punjabi/jat that elder son of the family is raised as sikh.So u ve punjabi hindu and sikh surnames as singh,Arora,chaddha etc.I just knew it as by word of mouth and from some Tv serials. But then i seached net i found some interesting facts.
“Many Hindu Kukhran families, as well as other Khatri and Khatri-like clans (Arora), raised at least one Sikh son after the formation of the Khalsa in 1699, resulted in Kukhran family names, as well as other Khatri-like clan names, being present in both Hindu and Sikh communities worldwide.”
In May 2004 Manmohan Singh became India’s Prime Minister. When a person becomes PM it is natural for papers to show pictures of his immediate family. Mumbai’s papers showed his brother, Surjit Singh Kohli and father K Kohli. I wondered! This meant that the PM’s surname too was Kohli (caste Khatri or Kshatriyas) but for some reason he had decided to omit it. People called him India’s first Sikh Prime Minister. This confused me even more because neither did my next-door neighbor Vikas Kohli sport a turban nor was he a Sikh.
“When I asked 74-year-old Punjabi mother about this contradiction she said in Punjab there was a tradition where the first son was made a Sikh, dedicated to the Army. My next question to her was why did the Punjabis dedicate their first son to the Army? She did not have an answer. Here is what I discovered.”