Unpublished Newswire

Punjabi music icon Diljit Dosanjh—who has achieved global stardom through a new album, sold-out stadiums, and an inimitable bhangra style—appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night The Tonight Show for a second time last week. Dosanjh was there to promote his latest album, Aura, and his North American tour, which opened with a show in Vancouver on April 23. Midway through the interview, though, he turned to something quite different: the story of the Komagata Maru, whose mostly Punjabi passengers were denied entry to Canada in 1914. For descendants and scholars, the exchange with Fallon was...