The mothers and daughters sit close. They lock eyes and you can see how they are bound together — by genes and family history. The mothers are telling stories their girls have never heard, stories that explain how they came to be the women they are today, and the bottomless wells of love they have for their daughters.
For Sandeep, daughter of a peon employed in Morinda Sub-Tehsil, the journey to making it to the IAS was tough. But it was her determination that paved the way.
(Recent events) have given rise to fears of a revival of Sikh radicalism in Canada — perhaps on the scale witnessed in the 1980s and 90s, when Sikh separatism flared up in the Punjab and terrorists in Canada destroyed Air India Flight 182.
The spirit of our Haitian mission was summed up by Jaipal Singh as follows: “Our local staff - our dear friends - were a constant reminder of our mission, and challenged each one of us to carry the torch of Guru Nanak in Haiti.
The whole text of Charitropakhyan deals with different aspects or shades of a woman's nature, some good some bad. The claim by some that these are useless sensual tales arises from incomplete reading of Charitropankhyan with a fickle mind already polluted by the kaamic mud which is all around us.
Why might so many Canadians hold such inaccurate views of Sikhism? The article speculates that media coverage of complex social, economic, or political issues may oversimplify matters, leading to erroneous "reductive reasoning" in which readers tend to wrongly attribute religion as the cause.
The Book is unique and the first of its kind in the sense that it enables anyone with a knowledge of English to learn Punjabi in a span of 20 hours . It might sound impossible but the book has been written after a lot of research..
The colourful procession normally has the streets lined with spectators – but the chilly weather and rain meant the crowds were not as big as usual.
Is our community living in a false paradise of being a global community amidst some serious identity crisis and that too at the threshold of destruction?
It’s Rapinder Kaur’s personality. … She’s got a very level-headed approach and she’s very direct. She has a way of asking questions non-judgmentally that opens up so much more.