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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.

Muslim and Sikh cadets will be allowed to wear a headscarf from now on following the case of a 14-year-old Muslim high school student who was who was forced to leave her Junior ROTC unit, because she could not remove her head scarf to take part in the homecoming parade.

The Three-day Shaheedi Sabha in the memory of two younger Sahibzadas Guru Gobind singh and his mother Mata Gujri ji began on December 26 at Fatehgarh Sahib.

NO MORE IS THE UNREST OF THE SOUL FOR GOD HAS BLESSED ME AS A WHOLE I FEEL THE VIBES OF HIS PRESENCE AND THE ESSENCE OF IT ALL.... AS I CALL TO GOD TO LIFT ME ABOVE IT ALL.......

Is there a global tipping point for frustration? Everywhere, it seems, people said they'd had enough. They dissented; they demanded; they did not despair, even when the answers came back in a cloud of tear gas or a hail of bullets. They literally embodied the idea that individual action can bring collective, colossal change. And although it was understood differently in different places, the idea of democracy was present in every gathering.