"If I surrender to You what is already Yours, what does it cost me?" Is a tuk from Guru Granth Sahib Ji that every Sikh should ask themselves when they start on the Sikhi Path. The path of Sikhs is not an easy path and this path is going to cost you...
A new study pinpoints the genetic changes that enable Tibetans to thrive at altitudes where others get sick.
The Surui people from the Brazilian rainforest are fighting to stop the destruction of their homeland. But instead of bows and arrows, they are using the Internet, GPS and Google Earth. Next they plan to start carbon emissions trading.
The young Surui sought refuge in the Internet and joined the battle against the World Bank and its Planafloro development project, which envisaged building new roads, dams and settlements on Indio land, but ignored the country's indigenous people. The Indios took on the World Bank -- and won.
Three years ago he contacted the company with the greatest store of knowledge: Google. Wearing a crown of feathers on his head, he entered the company's global headquarters at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway in Mountain View, California, demanding a meeting.
Almir knows Abu Dhabi is a country made of sand. But along the Persian Gulf they've already built the world's tallest building, an island shaped like a palm tree, and a ski slope. So why not a rainforest?
In all its educational institutions, preference is given to the girls. At Akal Academy, underprivileged rural girls aged from 8 to 25, who were forced to stay at home and do household work, are being put to schools and taught modern scientific education and spiritual training.
Recently I wrote an article on the months and seasons (Bara Maha) of Panjab. The article was edited and the spelling of Panjab was changed to Punjab.
The harmonium may have been long forgotten in the west but it is still the lifeline of Sikh, Punjabi and Indian music. The features like its ability to be played in harmonic as well as melodic style, and that too without any use of electricity, indeed made it indispensable in the Classical and Semi-Classical genre of music.
I might have looked incredulous, but I still continued, as I was so curious and happy and excited to learn of his heritage. I continued: "How is that possible?"...He told me that yes, his great-grandfather was Sikh and was the one who had come over to Chile.