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There is growing concern in India about the rapid rise in drug addiction cases in Punjab, one of the country's wealthiest states. The main university in the region has claimed that 70% of young Punjabi men are hooked on drugs or alcohol.

Every Holi in Anandpur Sahib, a town in north-east Punjab along the Sutlej, the Hola Mohalla festival unfolds.

I always ask myself, what could I do to carry forward Guru's message and to fulfill his vision? But vices don't allow me to break the cocoon that I have built around myself to find the answer to this question. I am constantly working towards breaking this cocoon. How far I've been reached...

California celebrated the officially legislated Sikh Awareness month over November which culminated in the mass Feed the Hungry event at the Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco. The event catered to hundreds of homeless in San Francisco...

A documentary which pays tribute to nthe memory of the Sikh Soldiers who fought for Great Britain during the Great War.

In a letter to the Prime Minster on the eve of the visit of the French President to India, Mr. Badal said that it was amazing that such "discriminatory rules and laws should exist in a country like France which has been the torch-bearer of freedom of conscience as well as of liberal and democratic ethos to large parts of world.

Its not fliers, lectures or a million dollar campaigns that are going to help people understand who Sikhs are and stop being hurtful towards the turban, It is going to be each Sikh wearing their turban with pride and being extra kind and clearing up misunderstandings of the people around them.

“and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you. You would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.”

"A remarkable people, the Sikhs with their Ten Gurus ( Prophets), 5 distinguishing marks ( 5K's), and their baptismal rite of water (Amrit) stirred with Steel; a people who have made history, and will make it again"