Sikhism, since its advent, has looked down upon murti pooja. Guru Nanak himself has called Hindus ignorant for worshipping murtis made of stone, instead of the all-encompassing Almighty God.
The same belief is now being applied to pictorial, cinematographic, and animated depictions of Sikh Gurus, their kin, and other eminent Sikh personalities; by the SGPC.
In this article, Adarsh Jha digs for facts behind the much talked about "Two Nation Theory"; and how the two parties debating it are faring, 75 years after the partition.
Bhagat Singh stood for an amicable solution between Hindus & Sikhs and believed that Punjabi will come closer to Hindi when it adopts the Hindi script and attempts to create its literature.
Guru Gobind Singh formed the Khalsa to create a unique Sikh identity while also establishing the Guru Granth Sahib to avoid future clashes.
Fictionalised retelling of the epics, if not consistent with the hermeneutics of the original texts, are slanderous in their effect on how the central characters figure in the readers' imagination.
There have been precursors to Sabarimala where Hindu traditions were also attacked.