Browsing Tag: Heritage

Sikh History on Display in California

As a Sikh child who grew up in the west, my knowledge and experience with Sikh history came mostly through stories and books. Aside from occasional visits to India, what I knew and saw of Sikh history was predominantly left to my imagination that provided to me a visual to the words I read or the static pictures I saw.
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The New Curiosity Stop

The verdant township of Anandpur Sahib, at the foothills of the Shivaliks in Punjab, has always drawn tourists by the hordes. But this time, it is not just the historic gurdwaras that is drawing them to one of the most sacred places for the Sikh community.
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The Lost British Accounts of Sikh texts: Lecture Report

The British made many inroads with their expansion into the Indian subcontinent. There were many travelers, writers and army personnel who left records of their time depicting the mannerisms, religion and customs of the Sikhs. Whilst one of the earliest accounts of the Sikhs is that of an account dated 1718.
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'Virasat-e-Khalsa' dedicated to humanity

Hailed as a "wonder in the making", the Khalsa Heritage complex had been conceived on a scale with global perspective and located amidst rolling hills on a sprawling 100-acre estate inspired by the nearby Himalayan Mountains.
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Anglo-Sikh war maps discovered in Irish castle

The find was made by British born writer Bobby Singh Bansal who was visiting Ireland to conduct research for his next project when he was shown the maps that had lay undetected in the castle attic for over 100 years.
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Online Exhibition: The Lost Palace of Amritsar

I am amazed when I see photographs of churches and mosques and palaces over a thousand years old that are still intact. Here we are as Sikhs, the youngest major world religion, yet we have hardly any architecture over a hundred years old still standing.
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Sikh International Film Festival ~ October 8, 13-15, 2011

The Sikh Art & Film Foundation will present its eighth annual Sikh International Film Festival and inaugural Leadership Summit, October 8, 13-15, 2011 at the Asia Society and Museum in New York...
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Sothebys to auction Sikh paintings

As part of the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art including Indian Miniature Paintings. Many miniatures are on sale including depictions from the Ramayan and other Indian themes. As part of this sale, Sothebys is to auction the sale of Sikh paintings in New York City on Thursday,15 September, 2011.
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Historic Majithia Fort to be surveyed

The Punjab Heritage and Tourism Promotion Board (PHTPB) has finally woken up to conduct an extensive survey on the remains of the “Majitha fort” — discovered by conservation-architects from Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) a few months ago.
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Panjab Digital Library (PDL): the virtual home of more than 6 million pages of digitized books

It was Gianiji’s vision and understanding of the changing times that he was able to understand the power of digitization that he not only agreed to allow us to digitize them but even to keep them for posterity. Gianiji died in 2007, but he lives on through his newspapers and continues to inspire PDL.
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