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.
"I found it an enriching experience," says Lonsdale, "Even from age 4, I was aware there was something more than this earthly life. I was on a spiritual quest from that age."
On Wednesday, Mandira Bedi, who attended a dealers meet of Jaypee Cement at Zirakpur on the outskirts of Chandigarh along with Sachin Tendulkar, flaunted the tattoo with the Ik Ong Kar symbol in Gurmukhi on her bare nape, leading to protests.
This law is based on the viewpoint that anyone of color or with an accent may be in the United States illegally. It enables the police to act on this stereotype and profile anyone in Arizona who may have a darker skin complexion, appears foreign, or speaks differently.
In the Council election of Barking and Dagenham, 5 Punjabi Sikhs have been successful. They endorse our multi-racial, multi-cultural community of which we should all be proud.
The success of this program has been heralded throughout India. For example, in Khadur Sahib, Punjab, the admission rate of students into professional degree programs over the last three years has risen from 0% to nearly 70%.
Perturbed by a storm of bad publicity after last month’s violence at two Sikh temples in Brampton, community leaders and thinkers say the lack of proper laws governing their shrines is leading to factional fights for control of the institutions and the money at their disposal.
If the assurances given by Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily to a delegation of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee on Wednesday are any indication, the draft of the Sikh Marriage Act is ready for ratification by the Union Cabinet.
The book was published in 1999 by the Dharam Parchar Committee of the SGPC, Amritsar, during the tri-centenary of the Khalsa Panth. It carried some distorted facts of the Sikh history following which the book was banned three years ago.