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The award exists to recognise a wide range of achievements from inspiring individuals through pivotal contributions made by the Sikh community across a variety of fields with winners selected from across the globe, including Asia, the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. This includes those who positively impact business, charity, sport, arts, culture, religious advocacy, education and medicine.

Basically, the opposite of FAST FOOD, slow food is home-cooked healthy meals which are good for our bodies as well as the environment. Personally, I have found learning to cook and prepare food to be a bountiful experience especially when carried out with the help of my two children. It’s fun family time, they get to eat good healthy food and we get to learn and grow together. 

With the introduction of formal schooling by the colonial administration in the Punjab, the medium of instruction issue arose as a new question and it immediately acquired the status of a major socio-linguistic controversy leading to much heated debate.

I have always been thinking that as the supreme institution of Sikhs, Akal Takht is supposed to act as a beacon of light to guide temporal issues and offer a civilizational world view in any age. Therefore, for rediscovering the institutional significance according to the present age, there must be some theoretical discourse to relate historical reality of Akal Takht with the metaphysical idea behind its inauguration.

From time to time, Baba Ji rendered selfless services to the needy during natural calamities. During the earthquake in Kashmir, he spent about Rs. 2.5 Crores to rebuild 1887 homes, 4 mosques, 3 temples, 3 Gurdwaras, 1 Army library and one mess. Apart from this, he also rendered humanitarian services in the floods of Punjab and Kerala.

He started learning to perform “Kirtan” at the tender age of 13... Prof Singh spend his next 30 years teaching music at Malwa Central College and Guru Nanak Girls’ College, both at Ludhiana, where he ignited the musical imagination of his students and instilled in them a yearning to learn music... He authored seven (7) highly acclaimed books on ‘Gurmat Sangeet’ throughout his writing career that spanned over more than forty (40) years.

This is in accordance with the United Nations International Mother Language Day which is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February approved by U.N.E.S.C.O. to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote preservation and protection of all languages.

"Sir-Inder Deol’s mastery of the poetic word transports the reader directly into the forefront of the largest mass protest in human history. His tone eloquently reflects a combination of the personal and collective struggle of the agitators, inviting readers to both question and better understand the political and corporate cogs of society."

Guru ji also started a large dispensary. The poor were cured of many ailments by giving medicine to the sick. Guru Sahib thus made special arrangements for the public welfare works for healing. Guru Sahib himself used to grow many herbs in his garden and bring valuable and rare medicines from far away and keep them in his pharmacy.