sentences:  In 1971 Dr Jagit Singh Chohan, an ex-minister in a short-lived government of Akali dissidents, saw an alignment of like-minded Sikhs.Chohan placed a half-page advertisement in "The New York Times" of 12 October 1971, making several claims about Punjab as a Sikh homeland.However, Chohan won little sympathy from ordinary Sikhs
  
  Tatla summarises the change in Sikh diaspora community leaders post 1984 a being a "painful transition from a self-confident community with haughty discourse, to the self-defensive strategies of a vulnerable minority".