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So then why do we have a National Day of the Girl Child? Are we just paying lip service to the idea of female emancipation when nothing much has changed since Manu stated, way back in 200 BC: "By a young girl, by a young woman, or even by an aged one, nothing must be done independently, even in her own house". And further: "In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband; and when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent."

A new study confirms that doing short journeys on foot rather than taking the car or motorbike would avoid the death of 108 men and 79 women a year in Catalonia alone. This would imply annual savings of more than 200 million euros.

EcoSikh will launch an international campaign for Eco-Amritsar 2017, a five year plan to mark city’s 440th anniversary with the goal of making it eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable.

Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) spent the early part of June on a “4G Tour” of the United Kingdom, exploring the topics of Guru, Gender, Genocide and Gurmata with diverse audiences in cities around Scotland and England.

Are you interested in filmmaking? Are you tired of being looked at suspiciously because you are Sikh? Enter the Sikh Coalition’s Diversity Video Competition to make a difference, and have your voice heard.

The mantle falls upon political parties and individuals to voice the other side of the picture to counter nasty imaginary fears about dissenting opinion in Punjab, dubbed as “extremist” by veteran commentator Kuldip Nayar in his article published in the columns of The Tribune on 18th June titled ‘Akalis owe an explanation to the nation’.

Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was a great Sikh general who established Sikh rule in large part of Punjab. Born to Rajput parents, his childhood name was Lachhman Das. He was very fond of hunting in early life but an incident changed his entire life and he shunned the worldly pleasures to become a bairagi sadhu.