The Strength and Beauty of Women in the Sikh faith and in the Global Community
The global problems we face today are too colossal and complex to be solved without the full participation of women.
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Guru Nanak and the Queen of Black Magic
Guru Nanak, Bala and Mardana were traveling to a distant land in India where people practiced black magic. Mardana asked to get some water from the city well. When he got there some girls thought he sounded funny. "Let's make him act like a sheep!", said one of the girls. She did some magic and he immediately started bleating like a sheep, "Baaa, baaha, bhaa...". Can Guru Nanak help Mardana and stop these sorceresses?
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The Daughter Deficit
Economic development seemes to have not only failed to help many Indian girls but to have made things worse.
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Gurbani – A Sikh Solution to Female Feticide
In this realm of mostly male voices, Ms. Kaur-Singh has taken an original position on a much-needed project: to explore a feminist perspective in interpreting Gurbani.
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Jimmy Carter breaks with Southern Baptists over the status of women
"Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God." Jimmy Carter
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Why Sikhs Need More Female Granthis
As an agent of change within the community, I believe a glance at the structural problems within our religious community is warranted. A recent spate of articles has made me wish to visit the issue of female Granthis
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Inspirational Music Video
The message to Sikh men of the latest Punjabi music video by artist, Taranampreet: "Don’t come around without unshorn hair and turban!"
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Female binge drink rates 'double'
The percentage of women who binge drink has doubled since the 1990s, research has found.
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Pressure on Hamid Karzai to scrap Afghan women's law
Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, came under intense western pressure yesterday to scrap a new law that the UN said legalised rape within marriage and severely limited the rights of women.
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Karzai signs law that 'legalizes' rape
In a massive blow for women’s rights, the new Shia Family Law negates the need for sexual consent between married couples, tacitly approves child marriage and restricts a woman’s right to leave the home.
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