With Canada home to the largest Sikh population outside India, many Punjabis are caught in a diplomatic firestorm over the death of a separatist leader in British Columbia.
Thousands of Indian women have been abandoned by men working overseas, leaving them trapped in their in-laws’ homes and often defrauded of dowry money.
The rise of Amritpal Singh, a self-styled preacher, has raised fears of violence in Punjab, where thousands died in the 1980s during a Sikh insurgency.