Chatham House, from where India’s foreign minister was stepping out when Khalistani extremists attacked him, stopped his car, and flashed the cult’s yellow flag, has an interesting history.

In October 1931, MK Gandhi addressed an overflowing hall at the Chatham House. He advocated an idea opposite of what the Khalistan movement stands for.

Gandhi told the audience that “the best way of arriving at the solution to any problem, political or social, is for the protagonists of rival views to meet one another and talk things out with sincerity and candour".

The Khalistan movement, in contrast, has stood for bigotry, terrorism, and mass murder.

Britain, which, as the colonial master, had repeatedly denied Gandhi and India freedom and left only after engineering a bloody Partition, still hosts a separatist, terrorist movement against India that has slaughtered thousands of innocents.

The interconnected webs of tyranny involving Britain, Pakistan, and India extended far and wide in history.

The Khalistan movement, which started in the 1960s, started picking up steam in the ’70s when the early advocate for a sovereign Sikh state,........

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