SSingh,

I belong to no community, so I must inform you that you must have someone else in mind. What TLH has done in this blog post is constitutive of its wider predisposition to avoid thinking and instead engage in what is called identity politics. For instance, nowhere in this post does the TLH blogger actually form an argument about the limitations of the Divided We Fall movie, nor does TLH at any point put forth any coherent argument about what Sikh activism should be like. That would require actual contemplation, meditative thought, or even creativity. Seriously, just take a look! Look at the posts throughout this blog.

What if TLH instead attempted to think through the problems of Sikh politics, of the political engagements of the so-called "diaspora"? What if? What if instead of obsessing about this gossip or that gossip, the TLH thought through and thought up new possibilities for acting politically? What if TLH thought through what being in the counter-currents of Western thought and Sikh space actually meant and what this really was? What if TLH had some impetus to motivate a transformation in our very comportment towards politics? What if TLH even aimed to study the matters of life, of wonder, or even lyric? What if TLH had even tried to talk about matters of aesthetics, of bringing forth a new and powerful aesthetic sensibility? What if TLH for once thought beyond its own self?

But what we have is: identity politics. What I mean by this is: a habitual disposition towards self-gratification, for gossip, for pointing, for finger pointing, for name calling, for politics in the worst sense of the word in order to fetishize and dominate the word "Sikh" -- that is, make "Sikhism" a club.

For quite a while, I've tried to actually bring forth a discussion with TLH and its bloggers. For just two instances:
http://thelangarhall.com/sikhi/gurpreet-kaur-bhat...
http://thelangarhall.com/general/sharing-the-guru...

In all of the cases, I am either ignored or addressed disingenuously or without any seriousness. Of course, TLH has every right to do that. All I mean to say is this: for all the rhetoric about "the new generation" of Sikhs leading and trailblazing, it's come to all be quite a let down. The name-calling in this post is the same crap "we" young generation-kids accuse Gurudwara politics to consist of. Alas, the cycle continues. The same so-called "progressive" Sikhs remain regressing into the same simple politricks. In turn, you do the Sikh "community" a disservice. You dumb down the conversation, engage in petty name calling, and refuse to think critically. There is a reason many of us are frustrated with this website and Sikh politics.