In the March 9 letter written by Jaswinder Pal Singh, assistant to Jathedar Gurbachan Singh, the Akal Takhat said the trustees had “mocked the holy Sikh Kakars with the selfish motive of winning your lawsuit.”
UP TO 10,000 people from the Sikh community are expected to take to the streets of Coventry for the Vaisakhi parade later this month. The festival will tell the story of the founding of the Sikh faith and involve a number of floats.
Sikhs and Hindus are featured prominently in the nationwide PBS public television documentary “The Asian & Abrahamic Religions: A Divine Encounter in America” which will be shown on over 300 public television stations nationwide in the USA.
Surprising as it may sound but the girls have outnumbered boys in Pakistan. Despite the socio-cultural taboos associated with girl child like dowry, sexual abuse, weaker sex etc, the girl child were not aborted in certain areas of Pakistan like Southern Punjab and Khyber Pakhtonkhawa.
The Prabhandak Committee Gurudwara Saheb Ameerpet will organize "Vishaal Deewan" (Mass Congregation), the main attraction of the celebrations at Sri Guru Gobind Singhji Play Grounds, Ameerpet, Hyderabad from 11 am to 4 pm in which over 25,000 Sikh devotees and other community faiths will converge at the program.
Quite significantly, this “modern” gurdwara is located at a cross roads junction which reminds one of where Sikhi tradition stands today! It is a typical example of the trend in the Sikh diaspora to seek their own local solutions to the current and future spiritual and socio-cultural needs.
No other bird has taken to living with the humans as the house sparrow. It originated in West Asia, reached Eurasia and North Africa with agriculture and eventually spread across the world. Today, it's the most widely distributed species on our planet. In fact, the only places where it is not found are dense forests and in the tundra region.
The Centre on Studies in Sri Guru Granth Sahib to be established with the cost of Rs. 47.05 crore, today become functional with the blessings of the Almighty and Ardas by Jathedar Akal Takhat, Singh Sahib, Giani Gurbachan Singh at the Guru Nanak Dev University Campus here.
“Given its acceptance of Sikhs and Muslims with beards and its policy of allowing beards to be grown after initial entry on service, I see little wiggle-room for the Army,” he said.
He laughs looking back as he recalls how it was often an ice-breaker with many of the Derry children who were admitted to hospital for surgery. “Children have no inhibitions and straight away they’d ask ‘what’s that on your head?” he explains.