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More than 1,500 mourners lined the streets of Manchester to say farewell to a ‘kingpin’ of the community. People from across the country came to pay their respects to Dr Harkirtan Singh-Raud, from Fallowfield, who died last week, aged 46, after a short illness.

When the history of this titanic struggle comes to be written in mature perspective, none of its many sides will, we believe, excite more wonderment and more ungrudging admiration than the part the Sikhs soldiers have played in it.

Arunajeet Kaur publishes a new book on Sikhs in the Diaspora

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, presently here in Tehran on a four-day State visit, paid his obeisance at the lone Ganga Singh Sabha Gurdwara on Sunday.

Dialogue generated from the Summit and the support from lawmakers on Capitol Hill will form the foundation for proactively seeking and implementing resolutions to Sikh concerns at a policy level, and will be compiled in the 2010 Sikh Summit Report, which will be released shortly.

In Nanak's teaching there are two kinds of people; those who listen and act on the Word of the True Guru called Gurmukh (he who faces the Guru) and those that do not, called Manmukh (he who has turned his back on the Guru (bemukh) and does as he pleases).

Canadian Sikhs are wondering, why the double standard? While violence and looting in Montreal last night after the victory of the Montreal Canadians over the Pittsburgh Penguins has been attributed to a “small” group of 500 individuals, the entire Canadian Sikh community has been smeared by certain politicians and media as violent and prone to extremism due to the irresponsible comments and actions of a few.