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The Prime Minister of India's announcement that the Gadar Memorial in San Francisco will be upgraded into a “functional museum and library with a sculpture to honor the Gadari Babas, the heroes of the great movement” is a great welcome news.

A Federal Protective Service (FPS) Policy Directive that includes specific religious accommodations for Sikh articles of faith, including the kara and the kirpan, was released recently, right before the federal appellate hearing in an important employment discrimination (religious accommodation) case against the government involving the kirpan.

Fortunately academics like the ones who have written this book need to be applauded for writing on such a vast subject in a very cogent manner and making their point. Anyone with a conscience interested in truth, justice, equality and the rule of law in South Asia must read this book.

In the wake of French President Francois Hollande’s visit to India, supporters of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), along with Sikh students, staged a protest here on Friday over the ban on wearing turbans in that country.

The Transportation Security Administration has done a wonderful job these past several years of ensuring our safety. Yet as civil rights organizations like SALDEF and the Sikh Coalition have shown us, it is now time for us to demand more.

No, I like Eve Ensler’s way. Dance in the face of your oppressors – if rape is a non-verbal method of communicating hatred, surely dancing is the perfect protest.

Sikh students held a conference on The Sikh: The Feminine, The Activist. The objective of this conference was to “present the Sikh perspective of these two themes, to discuss the Sikh tradition and perhaps even outline what a Sikh’s role is as an activist, and what a woman’s role is as a Sikh…

About a decade ago, Anarkali Kaur Honaryar was forced to leave her government job due to her religion. Now, she is a member of Afghan Parliament’s upper house, involved in nation-building for the war-ravaged nation.

Sikh groups led by United Sikhs organization, Akali Dal (Delhi) and Sikh Forum held a peaceful protest outside the French Embassy in Delhi and submitted a memorandum addressed to French President Francois Hollande against the ongoing turban ban in French public schools.