He was intelligent, lively, and hilarious. He was eight. I had a spiritual experience as I explained to him, in French (my mother tongue), the meaning of his Gurumukhi name: the lion of peaceful light.
It was one great step for inspiring the young and old, to not hate one another for our differences. However instead by united while different and still consider one another as pyaare Gursikhs of the True Perfect Guru.
I come from a mixed Christian-Jewish background but my parents were both non-religious and I never had religious education at school - I skipped the lesson! I wasn't concerned with religion till much later on.
If anyone in East Africa achieved the status of a national hero through motor rallying, it was undoubtedly Joginder Singh. He was not only the first Asian driver ever to win an international rally but also the first man to win the Safari three times.
Police said Sunday they have arrested six suspects in another gang-rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.
Traditionally, the Sikh community does not lament periods of persecution and hardship but instead celebrates the contributions and sacrifices made by the community members and greater society living within those moments.
It's human to imitate, but we are also uniquely individual. If it helps you, then what better role model than the Gurus? Humility is not something you can 'act'. Humility happens inside of you when you experience the Infinity inside of yourself. Our Gurus are with us now. They weren't just in the past. Their qualities are inside of us already. Don't 'act' like the Guru, and don't 'act' humble, just act in yourself in each moment to the best of your consciousness.
Singh, 38, is one of a new wave of farmers pioneering one of the world's more unlikely migrations. During a recent spell as a cook in Düsseldorf, Germany, he heard about thousands of acres of fertile land on former collective farms lying fallow in Georgia for want of manpower.
‘Sikh Youth of Punjab’ (SYP) has suggested that the criminal law be amended to award the maximum punishment of full life imprisonment without parole to rapists.
Tasmania's small Indian Sikh community have been working on plans for a temple in Hobart for more than three years.