SikhRI’s BC coordinator Kirpa Kaur said that she felt the way the events were carried off was monumental for the local community. “These events felt like they were a long time coming, and we are so happy to have created the programming to educate not only non-Sikhs, but Sikhs as well, on the significance of Vaisakhi,”..
There they were at the Green Day concert – six pink turbans bobbing up and down in the crowd....Who are these mysterious pink-turbaned giants, and where are they from? Why do they pop up at almost every rock concert held in the region? And most importantly of all, why pink?
Some important artifacts, documents and images relating to the Ranjit Singh period and beyond were up for auction by Mullocks Auctioneers , specialists in Historical memorabilia at Ludlow Racecourse in Shropshire, UK on the 19th April 2011.
Having power over others and having choices in your own life share a critical foundation: control, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The paper finds that people are willing to trade one source of control for the other.
Valley Sikh Guru Roop Kaur Khalsa said the goodwill from the community after the attack was a "very loving response" and it hurts that the message has been forgotten by some. "It's a monument," she said. "It's a warning, a beacon of what happened in the past" to prevent it from happening again in the future.
The parade, which has been running for the past 11 years in Surrey, commemorates one of the most important religious events on the Sikh calendar. More than 2,500 volunteers representing dozens...and hundreds of community organizations and businesses handed out free food and drink along the parade, an important tradition of the event.
Leaders of Hindu, Muslim, Jain and Sikh religions in Britain are among nearly 2,000 people on Friday's royal wedding guest list that has already generated controversy over the presence and absence on it of some individuals.
It is a supplication by the Kirtania in front of the Guru to sing from Gurbani what he/she is trying to comprehend and feel, and at the same time share that Divine experience with the Sadh Sangat. Until such time that we truly embrace the purpose of musicology...and restore the position of the divine instruments bestowed by our Gurus over their countless sacrifices, our attempts will only bear little fruit in this regard.
A disease that has affected the world and its people since the beginning of recorded human history, malaria remains an entrenched global health challenge. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), approximately half of the world's population is at risk.
Dry your tears, my friends, and raise your heads as The flowers raise their crowns to greet the dawn. Look at the bride of Death standing like a column of Light Between my bed and the Infinite; Hold your breath and listen with me to the beckoning rustle of Her white wings. ~ by Khalil Gibran The Beauty of Death XIV