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badshah ji

I made a mistake - a blooper as they say. And yet it is a fortunate mistake because it opens up yet another aspect of the problems we have been discussing.

And suitable it is for hard talk. Because there will also be individuals who will disagree that a Sikh woman should be portrayed the way Giselle has portrayed her -- for the reasons I stated in my earlier post. Won't repeat them here. And they will say that the cinema has contributed greatly to the erosion of traditional values. And they will say that Sikh girls are confused about their identity when they see these characters on the silver screen and thus go astray.

Moreover, there will be those who agree that the more strict the code of personal values we impose on our young the more likely they are to jump ship. But there will also be those who disagree and say that Sikhism itself will disappear if Sikh values are in any way compromised.

You do make a point when you question whether Sikh values are at issue, and that perhaps values are not at all at stake.

Again I raise these issues only for the purposes of hard talk.  I am not on a soap box.