India’s media will spare no energy or ink in its attempt to trivialize anything that appears on the world scene which is even remotely pro-Sikh. The envy and jealousy of the Sikh has indeed become visceral to the Indian character, to the point of it having turned pathological.
JK Rowling’s Controversial New Book, “Casual Vacancy” Has Sikhs in Uproar Because of a Lack of Exoticism, Sections on Naan-Bread Are Limited, and The Aroma of Curry is Not Even Mentioned. Akal Takht and the SGPC Are Now Involved. Dates For the Book Burning to Be Announced Via Twitter.
Answering questions from journalists and others at a book-reading event at the Southbank Centre here last night, Rowling, 47, said that when she was in her mid-twenties she knew a Sikh woman who sparked her interest in Sikhism.