Filled with sorrow are such tales from both sides of the border. Both nations celebrate partition with all pomp and show, with most having forgotten the other side of the coin – the last few surviving victims of the partition, an aging generation that witnessed the pain.
Caleca, of Setauket on Long Island, was arrested late Monday on charges of attempted murder as a hate crime and assault as a hate crime. No information on a lawyer for him was available.
Two veteran media gurus who are helping with the campaign, Geoff Garin and Isaac Baker, made presentations outlining how the Sikh image can be reshaped. “The consensus was that there is a critical need for this kind of media strategy for the Sikh community,” Dr. Rajwant Singh, president of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education."
"Sikhs are leaving Afghanistan. We have several historical gurdwaras there. Who will take care of them? So, we have decided to send Sikh jatha to Afghanistan to perform sewa in gurdwaras," said Nankana Sahib Sikh Yatree Jatha president Swaran Singh Gill on Thursday.
Now I am very excited to announce to you that a new study in the prestigious journal Neurology, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology, has just published a landmark article showing a strong association between vitamin D deficiency and Alzheimer’s disease.
Does This World Bring Happiness? The happiness we get in this life, in our day-to-day lives, is very elementary. It is only a shadow, and the real one is elsewhere.
How we start our day sets the tone for the entire day. When we begin our day with a grateful heart, contemplating the greatness within and around us, its fragrance spreads throughout the day.
India’s favourite pop musician Daler Mehndi was recently nominated for the Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Associations’ Ice Bucket Challenge by a little girl from the US. Internationally known for his humanitarian activism, Daler Mehndi became the first Indian celebrity to have taken this challenge.
Gurwin Ahuja, Executive Director of the National Sikh Campaign, while welcoming the Sikh leaders, said, "The Sikh community in US has never been more educated, more wealthy, and more successful than today and we've also never had this many Gurdwara leaders together in a room. We have never been more primed to do something big."
So I remember my parents often saying, in a kind of broken English, “What are you getting to hold onto out of that?” Over time, that came to mean for me: “What are you holding onto out of an experience? What’s the essence of what you took away?”