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"We believed that people from the community were moving away from their roots. Punjabi is hardly spoken nowadays, and that's sad because our culture is rich," says Kirandeep Kaur, product development manager at 1469, a novel T-shirt manufacturing firm that relies on Punjabi symbols, slogans and graphics.

The Jathedars said: “The turban is pride of the Sikhs, but these days disrespect is being shown towards it even in the police stations across the state, which is a dangerous trend. We have written to the SGPC chief to hold a dialogue with the government and make sure that such incidents do not recur.”

The rivaling stories on the memorial touched off a bitter, years long struggle in Arizona over how Sept. 11 should be publicly remembered. Here, as in the rest of the United States, there are opposite and diverging opinions about tolerance and patriotism, hate and peace. And on the Phoenix memorial, those opinions are etched in steel, side by side.

"My father is angry at what I have done but I am firm with my decision. I want to raise my siblings with respect in society and support them financially and morally," Sapna said. Bhilwara deputy director KK Chandravanshi said the spirit to fight social customs and her courage and awareness had set an example for all the village girls.

Rahuldeep Singh Gill tends to stand out at California Lutheran University, where he is the only religion professor who is not Christian. Gill is a Sikh and he wears a dastar, or turban, setting him apart both on campus and in the community.

Over the past 15 years, a scourge of suicides has claimed the lives of an estimated 250,000 farmers in India. And the death count is still climbing, according to a new report by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University. “On average, one farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes in India,” said Smita Narula, director of the CHRGJ

The photographs that document the artist Gauri Gill's visit to Kabul in 2007 suggest a city that has been left for dead. In black and white, her shots are almost devoid of people: we see an illustrious library greying with dust, a bombed-in palace and a line of cattle seeming to approach its once-grand entrance. Anonymous hands grasp at the cages of the city's Ka Furushi bird market, as groups of tiny canaries whirr in a startled flapping of wings.

The sale by Mullock's auctioneers, of Shropshire, (English Midlands), includes an antique reproduction of the British Imperial State Crown - possibly a proof for the Imperial Crown or made as a gift commemorating the coronation. The crown is decorated with the famous Kooh- I-Noor Diamond and carries an estimate of 800 1200 GBP.

Since 2005 many Canadian youths of Punjabi origin have been killed due to their involvement in the organized crime. During 2006 the Punjabi community convened various forms and focus groups to formulate the viable approach to curtail the drug and alcohol use involving youth. After a number of community consultations it was decided to educate...