Browsing Tag: Vaisakhi

Calgary Sikhs celebrate Nagar Kirtan

More than 20,000 Sikhs in northeast Calgary came together to celebrate a special holiday Saturday marking the birth of their religion. The celebration also gathered donations for the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank...
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Najib showers RM9m in ‘gifts’ on Sikhs

Datuk Seri Najib Razak today announced various “gifts” for the Sikh community in the conjunction with the Vaisakhi Day celebration.
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Vaisakhi Festival in Mossel Bay South Africa

The Sikhs of Mossel Bay celebrated their fifth annual Vaisakhi festival on 15th of April at the Dana Bay Community Hall. There were a lot more visitors from the UK where there are 228 Sikh temples and the British Sikhs have many years of experience both in organizing this annual event as well as in cooking delicious Langar...
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Event: East London Charity Bike Ride 2012

May 6

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A three generation balancing act

But at the same time, she feels that being in Canada is an opportunity for Sikhs to share their celebration of Vaisakhi, the start of a new harvest season that also marks the birth of Khalsa. “There is an equal share of prayers, parades and religious rituals.
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Sikh holiday Vaisakhi celebrated at Maryland Governor O'Malley's home

Over 150 Indian and Sikh Community leaders had gathered at the Governor Martin O’Malley’s residence for the celebrations of the Vaisakhi on April 23, 2012. This was the second time Governor had opened his house to celebrate this Sikh holiday to recognize the community’s growing influence in the state.
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Politicizing death row in Punjab and at the Surrey Vaisakhi parade ~ [OP-ED]

The imagery of a convicted Sikh militant on death row in India, Balwant Singh Rajoana, dominated the annual Vaisakhi parade in Surrey. His pictures greeted visitors from different corners of the streets as the procession passed through the city Saturday.
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Vaisakhi and self-transcendence

In the core of the philosophy of the Sikh Gurus is that we must seek to re-merge our consciousness to the Divine Consciousness, and that this requires us to uplift our awareness to beyond the mundane and egocentric perspective. We must, as Dr. Haidt might say, seek to become more than ourselves.
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Thousands join Sikh Vaisakhi celebrations in Birmingham

Sharon Lea, from Birmingham City Council, said the Vaisakhi festival showed "how people come together in the city to celebrate their cultural identity". She added that it had become a key event in Birmingham's cultural calendar.
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Sikhs celebrating Vaisakhi day will parade Sunday in eastern New Orleans

Sikh men and women parading Sunday will be in traditional clothing, led by five men of exemplary character, and following a decorated float bearing their sacred Scripture, the Adi Granth.
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