Chairman Verpal Singh says the planned supercity structure is "close to dictatorship" and is driving "widespread concern that it will leave many of the city’s residents unrepresented".
I was absolutely delighted last year when I saw the shelves of a Central London bookshop dominated by a book whose jacket featured the photograph of a delicate-looking nine year old Sikh boy tensely staring out.
We are blessed in Espanola with SS Shanti Kaur Khalsa, who is our Sikh Dharma historian. She tells beautiful, uplifting stories about the Gurus...special stories for the gurpurbs and about the Akal Takhat.
In the concept of Miri Piri, there is a subtle co-existence of the two bases of authority-spiritual and temporal. The Sikhs were acknowledged spiritually in India but not politically and this lack of recognition eventually resulted in the attack on the Akal Takhat.
The oil paintings below are the work of Jaswant Singh Zafar. He’s a poet, photographer, and painter in his free time and an engineer in Ludhiana by day.
Before becoming a Sikh, Bhai Amardas Ji as he was known at the time, was a very religious Vaishanavite Hindu who spent most of his life performing all of the ritual pilgrimages and fasts of a devout Hindu...
I was standing at jalandhar station when my attention went towards a Sikh youth standing near me wearing a Black turban having a long beard and wearing a kirpan over his shirt looking similar to a terrorist...