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A US-based Sikh body (Sikh Human Development Foundation) has raised $3,30,000 to fund scholarships for bright but poor Punjabi students. "This is the largest donation ever received by the diaspora community for higher education for students in Punjab. In Indian rupees, this is a little over 2 crores."

I convinced myself that I was indeed an abomination and I began a destructive path of self-hate... I would beg God to take it away, to make me straight. I would give anything, anything for it to go away, anything for me to just be normal, anything to stop being who I was ashamed of being…

"Memorial Day is the day when we take a pause to say thanks to those who gave their lives for the freedom we have." It’s a US federal holiday to remember men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Sikhs have counted heavily among those who died in wars remembered on this day.

The march, which is expected to be attended by more than 5,000 Sikhs, will start in front of India's Permanent Mission to the UN and will end at United Nations Headquarters.