One of India’s leading social workers, Ela Bhatt, who heads the Self-Employed Women’s Association, or SEWA, said micro-finance firms had lost sight of the fact that the poor needed more than loans to be successful entrepreneurs. They need business and financial advice as well, she said.
Thousands of Sikhs gathered at Surrey’s Dasmesh Darbar Sikh temple last weekend to honor members of the Canadian Armed Forces in a poignant ceremony to mark Remembrance Day 2010.
Though considered apolitical, the SGPC elections are always fought on political lines. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), the ruling party in Punjab, had backed Avtar Singh Makkar for the coveted post. SGPC president and SAD spokesperson cited "political compulsions" for their failure to reserve seats for women this time.
The festive spirit is growing in the Sikh community as it readies to celebrate the 541st Birthday of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism. He founded Sikhism on the universal principle of equality of all people regardless of class, colour, creed, religion or gender.
Sikh Organizations & Glide Memorial Church will help feed approximately 1,000 hungry folks in San Francisco. Hunger is a serious problem in San Francisco – with 1 in 5 children and 1 in 5 adults at risk of hunger.
What the book does first and foremost is bring into vivid focus faces that many of us turn away from on the streets every day - out of shyness or confusion; out of an inability to know how to connect.
The powerful radiance of compassion and Truth shining through his words clearly showed humanity that only by creating the holy vibration or Nam in ecstasy, by preparing the physical body to vibrate the Name of God, and by tuning the mind to beam this Name, could the individual consciousness merge into the Supreme Universal Consciousness.
According to Khuda Mohammed, "Buddha attained Buddhahood, while Guru Nanak was born Buddha." In the similar vein another eminent scholar, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed remarked: "Guru Nanak was at a higher place than the other prophets of the world."
Mr Singh Sandhu, who was made an MBE in 2002, came to Leicestershire from Punjab, India, 38 years ago. He said of his appointment: "It's a great honor and privilege." He said he would be the first turban-wearing Sikh High Sheriff in the country. "This is going to set a good image of Great Britain," he said.
To his credit, he is not timid -- by any stretch. His ancestors came from the same village where he was born. It has been there for more than 600 years. Those that know India say that the countryside where he is from produces an aggressive mentality among the men.