Is there a credible translation? The parts in English are indistinguishable from a call for boycott. (Not disagreeing.)
In the beginning after saying 'we are urging Sikhs not to fly Air India' in English, which sounds like boycott, he switches to Hindi[0] and says similar with 'on the 19th November' (unnis navambar ko) - why would a boycott be so specific; then he says same date 'Indira Gandhi airport [Delhi international, i.e. North India but not Punjab] will be closed' (band rahega).
Later he says something about 'khalistani airport' which I would guess is his way of referring to Amritsar or Chandigarh (the two international airports in Punjab afaict, perhaps the former because it's cleanly Punjab vs. the latter seems to be the capital city of both Punjab and Haryana states, kind of an interesting quirk) but it's difficult for me to understand much more. Edit: actually it's Chandigarh, I just realised the sentence is 'Shaheed Bhagat Singh [name of Chandigarh airport] will be the khalistani airport' (khalistani airport hoega). Again you could say it's a boycott: take your money to Punjab's airports, not Delhi's - but why's the latter 'closed', why 19 November specifically. As an economic boycott, that being done by the subset of Sikhs who follow him on a single day would have trivial impact, it'd be completely inconsequential.
I realise that's not much, maybe it helps a bit, I was mainly interested for myself as a learning exercise really! (My vocabulary's quite limited, but more than that I struggle just with listening/speaking fast enough, so trying to practice more in ways other than reading.)
[0] or maybe Punjabi, I'd have thought it would be, and they're similar enough spoken that I'd pick bits up anyway, but seems more familiar (i.e. Hindi) word endings/conjugations to me (even where I don't know the actual word) than there would be if it was Punjabi (which I might recognise from '-da's and '-di's for example)
Specific date and limited specific location boycotts are a frequently done because they are easier to motivate people for the amount of symbolic impact (because people can rearrange purchases rather than actually cancel them), and because they can prime people for a longer or more general boycott. Its not an uncommon strategy. (People do argue against it because the impacts are largely symbolic, for the same reasons it is easier to organize, and because there is an argument that they can lead to exhaustion -- "I've done the one thing and now you want more" -- more than priming. So there is controversy in the kinds of groups that call for boycotts about them, but, they are still a thing that is done, not an unplausible boycott technique that makes "threat" the only plausible interpretation.)
Do you, in your reading, see a threat? Because I’m not. (Certainly not “that Indira Gandhi Airport will be attacked on November 19th.”)
I think it’s dramatically framed to generate clicks. But a lot of right-wing gun crap also sounds like that, and I don’t think they’re always making credible threats.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/01/2...
Translates to: "Sikh people (panth) don't travel in Air India after 19th November. There will be a threat to your life (Jaanu = Life, khatra = Threat, ho sagda hai = possibility of a threat)"
Who will threaten Sikh lives in Air India after 19th November? It is literally reminder of Air India Flight 182 bombings.
For whatever it's worth, I concur with that transcription & its translation - I can't find jaanu online but it's so close to Hindi (jaan) that I don't doubt it at all. (It's a hell of a lot easier for me to realise what he's saying when it's written out by someone else, heh.)
(I've also vouched for parent comment, it's informative and afaict accurate, I don't understand why it would be dead.)
For what? He only partially translated the text. Pannun literally issues a threat in the video: "Jaanu khatra ho sagda hai" which translates to "Your life will be in Danger". He is telling the Sikhs not to board Air India flights after November 19th and that there will be threat to their lives. In other words, he is saying they will repeat what they did to Air India Flight 182: bomb the planes mid air. And that Sikhs should not travel Air India from November 19th onwards as he doesn't want any Sikh to lose his/her life in the bombings.
Just ask any Punjabi speaker and he will tell you the same thing!
I can't believe you people see conspiracy in everything! Get your head out of the sand. The West is harbouring dangerous criminals and terrorists. They owe you no loyalty. They will destroy your society. India is in the right here.
Anything I missed is just because I'm learning Hindi, can't follow quickly, have limited vocabulary, and he's speaking Punjabi anyway which is slightly different as you know. I only offered an attempt at a partial translation at all as a sort of learning exercise for myself, and because fluent speakers hadn't chimed in at that point.
Nothing to do with you though! Sorry if it came across that way!
EDIT: Also if I might add, whatever you translated was accurate. Great job! Your Hindi is already pretty good! And it is surprising you were able to pick that up from Punjabi which is definitely a lot different in comparison to Hindi!
It is.
Sannu Punjabi andhi hai. Koi Pakistani hega is thead vich jo translation nu verify vi kar sakta hai?