The Guru taught the kings when they were imprisoned together. By His grace and consciousness, he helped free them. Guru Hargobind touched their lives and impacted each of them in some way.
Today, we’ll take a look at Sikh woman who has turned her hobby of filmmaking into a career! You may have heard about Harpreet Kaur from her films, “We are Sikhs,” “Saz of Gurmat Sangit,” “The Widow Colony,” and “A Little Revolution.”
When it comes to celebrating popular festivals like Divali or Christmas, the colourful and socially vibrant Sikhs are renowned for outdoing their neighbours. For them, relevance of such festivals to their religion is of little consequence. Divali is one such festival;
Bhai Gurdas ji states in above line, if one is not performing 'Sewa' (service), your hands + feet are- Dhrig, Dhrig translated is like having a curse. Also anything else one does is fruitless performing to him.
'A Bid to Highlight British Sikh Contribution' Having been in the news recently with their immense and celebrated contribution for Britain in WW1, how much do Brits really know about Sikhs?
"A lot of my peers that I went to the academy with were very supportive and very impressed, 'Hey we got a Sikh going through the academy. He's able to do everything we're able to do. This is pretty cool'."
Sikh organizations of India and abroad, who came forward in helping the victims of natural disasters of Jammu & Kashmir, have made the Sikh community feel proud all around the world.
Even today, locals are as likely as not to introduce themselves with a photo or faded press clipping that relates to a loved one lost to alleged or proven cases of enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, or clandestine cremation.
“Since the whole ISIS thing is happening out of Iraq, I’ve noticed an escalation of verbal abuse I’ve had incidents where young and old, kids, people from different ethnic groups calling me 'Osama' and telling me to ‘go back home’.”
I imagined I would see fellow pilgrims gathering their gear, an upwards path visible in the distance, and what would seem like little ants creeping up slowly. I figured I would be approached by an enthusiastic chaiwala, and of course I would gratefully accept. His name would be Chotu, obviously.