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What do Canada’s more than 500,000 Hindus think about recent Sikh political activism in India and across this country?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s problem-prone trip with Sikh MPs to the world’s second most populous country, combined with revelations about federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s links to activists who want a separate Sikh homeland in India, have been front-and-centre in the news for almost two months.

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Canada’s mainstream media, as well as social media, are alive with the testy and diverse views of the country’s almost 500,000 Sikhs. A popular Twitter hashtag, #AskCanadianSikhs, urges the world to find out more about the real attitudes of orthodox and unbaptized Sikhs.

But few are asking what Canada’s Hindus think.

That’s despite how Hindus have been intimately affected by the painful political, historical and religious strains that are being exposed, which date back more than three decades, to when peaceful relations in India were suddenly broken by bloody violence among Hindus, Sikhs and others. Certain tensions from the 1980s, which had been dying down, are returning.