Browsing Tag: News

News: Keep Arms And Legs Hairy To Keep Bed Bugs Away

Looking to avoid confrontations with bed bugs? You will be better off not shaving your legs according to researchers in the UK.

News: Ugandan Sikh MP, whose family was spared by Idi Amin, woos Punjabi farmers

The first African Sikh MP, whose family was among a very few who did not leave Uganda, and was considered a favourite of despot Idi Amin during 1970s, wants Punjabi farmers to cultivate land in the east African country that is now becoming a passage to entire east Africa after South Sudan became a new country recently.

News: Plans for world's first mass 'pod' system unveiled

FUTURISTIC driverless pods will overhaul mass transportation in India, with plans in place for the rest of the world too, the creators of the technology say. ...has announced it will bring the pods to Amritsar, the home to Sikh holy shrine the Golden Temple.

News: First Sikh museum opened Saturday with Lt.-Gov. Point

Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point officially opened the Sikh Heritage Museum, the first of its kind in Canada, at the historic Gur Sikh Gurdwara on South Fraser Way.

News: Unpalatable Truths

This investigation into religious food charities in Delhi became a fascinating journey, not just into the survival strategies of Delhi's poorest, but the shrinking spaces in the hearts of India's middle class.

News: Sikh media raised the issue of homeless Punjabi Youth in Southall, London

Many homeless persons spend chilling nights of December on footpaths of Southall city, near London. Sikh Channel, one of the two community channels of Sikhs in UK, has brought this issue into light through street journalism and raised the concern of homeless Punjabi youth.

News: An Excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another...

News: Gurmat Sangeet revival by youth, the History & Reality ~ goes online

The Department of Gurmat Sangeet, Punjabi University, Patiala, recently made its (1,800 hours) music archives available online. Presently Dean, Faculty of Art and Culture as well as the founder professor and head of the department, Dr. Gurnam Singh is one of the catalysts in the promotion of Gurbani music.

News: Can ordinary people experience a state of Grace?

I think the closest concept to a "state of Grace" in the Sikh faith is the state of "sehaj," which is the state of realization and awareness of God. A person in the state of sehaj attains a constant state of contentment and bliss and is aware of the presence of God's light within.