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The extreme cold weather could not deter the spirit of devotees who swept the roads barefoot as nagar kirtan passed through various areas of Model Town on Wednesday. Over 1,000 of them turned up to participate in the nagar kirtan organized to mark the birth anniversary of tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh.

Despite the Tri Valley University case and hate crimes, the Indian-American community gained ground in California, says Ritu Jha.

The 2011 report looks at three aspects of giving behavior of individuals in the preceding month, asking if they have donated money to a charity, volunteered time to an organization, or helped a stranger.

Indeed, if a proposal before the body passes, says David Rooney, curator of timekeeping at the U.K.’s Royal Observatory, “It will be the first time that time is not dependent on the rising and falling of the sun.”

You know it is really odd for me, as a third-generation Thai-Sikh to be writing for an Egyptian web site about a Found Nation. The mystery of how this comes about is quite interesting to consider in its entirety.

With temperatures dipping to 30 degrees F and below during the night, the Lodi area's homeless population has been shivering and using more imagination in trying to warm themselves up.

Ten acres of land in an industrial area were gifted to the Indian Association Sharjah by Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed, Ruler of Sharjah, for the purpose of building the crematorium. The first phase of building began last month.

Congratulations to the Sikh Foundation for the beautiful 2012 calendar! Its paintings by the contemporary artist Sardar Devender Singh depict events deeply etched in the Sikh consciousness. What is particularly significant is the presence of women.

Shortly, the periodical will embark on its 60th year. As I hold the December 2011 issue (# 696) in my hands, I am filled with a sense of gratitude: gratitude for its incredible resilience. Gratitude also for the fact that Sikhs have created such institutions to serve new generations. Gratitude also that it is the Sikh awakening and blazing of a cultural renaissance of the early 1900s that brought our community back to its transcendental realm.