The highest worldly seat of authority for the global Sikh community has directed all of its gurdwaras around the world to not perform same-sex marriages.
The arrest and treatment in custody of an Indian diplomat in New York City has caused an uproar in India, and a week after the incident, there are signs of an all-out diplomatic row with the U.S.
For all I know many of these Sikhs may operate from a base of moral ambiguity and pliability and yet serve the community and its larger cause. That surely bothers me.
Apartheid, that carefully constructed system of organized racism, was shattered when Nelson Mandela raised clenched fist as he was sent off to jail … where he was remain for the next 27 years.
I would not have dreamt of going to this obscure village even before 21 June 1994, but for my colleague, Capt. Hardev Singh’s insistence. He appeared excited.