Browsing Tag: Opinion

Nature has decorated a man with a beard and a moustache to differentiate between a male and a female.

Fortunately academics like the ones who have written this book need to be applauded for writing on such a vast subject in a very cogent manner and making their point. Anyone with a conscience interested in truth, justice, equality and the rule of law in South Asia must read this book.

These essays are not to be read with a view to getting final answers or prescriptions and possession of the Truth. This book - like Dr Singh’s previous ones - is a kind of spiritual or philosophical sing-along for those who are also engaged in their own spiritual quest and are ready to ask uncomfortable questions and explore uncharted territory.

American society tends to delude itself into believing that ignorance is the exclusive source of hate-violence. Part of the reason for this is that this idea is more comforting than the reality. It’s comforting for us to think that people would be compassionate towards one another if they were more educated.

And no matter who Page believed his targets were, he committed violence against religious liberty. The freedom to practice one’s religion openly and without fear is fundamental to all Americans. Page tried to take that away, and people of all faiths or none must resist such attempts. The violence against Sikhs in Wisconsin was a hate crime, and all Americans must stand in solidarity with the Sikh community.

If we want a world where every person is treated with human dignity, the U.S. military, for one, must fully embrace what they profess to teach: respect for religious diversity.

If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them.

Conservative military watchdogs are unhappy with the Army's recent decision to allow a member of the Sikh religious sect to enlist without adhering to military grooming standards.

The Sikh community is outraged by what they consider blatant ignorance on part of Judge Sajid Khan when it came down to his verdict on a Gatka Performance done on the Stage of India’s Got Talent.

Is our community living in a false paradise of being a global community amidst some serious identity crisis and that too at the threshold of destruction?

Why all of a sudden do we have duplicate copies of Harminder sahib?

A couple of untold stories/observations from the Singh-Obama bash last week,...

I had mentioned some years ago that I became an Amritdhari Sikh. It was a public declaration of a very private intention and action, but it seemed pertinent in context.

Should your child's teacher wear a turban or other "religious dress'? The state of Oregon doesn't think so.

The worldwide celebration of Women's Day sparks some commentary from Shobhaa De

At the outset I want to clearly state my motives in writing this piece. Let there be no question that I write as a Sikh. In my view, Sikhs have the right and the obligation to talk about these matters for these are issues of internal debate within the Sikh community.

In the past eight years, except on one occasion in Pakistan, I never hid from my nationality as some Americans did

A short commentary by S. Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba about the recent removal of Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti...

Amandeep Singh examines the correlation between our internal and external environments.

During British Empire days there were hundreds of people considered terrorists and killed or sentenced by British government. But since independence those same terrorists are called freedom fighters and martyrs...