What do you do if you are the daughter of an estranged Indian royal family marooned in the heart of late-Victorian and Edwardian London? You join the ranks of the various revolutionaries...
“Don’t you feel hot under your turban?” asked a colleague. I smiled, and replied to his curious question “No king has ever felt hot under his crown. And for Sikhs the turban is their crown”.
Bhai Gurdas ji gives so many examples one after another so that we can easily judge between right and wrong. We can sing Bhai Sahib varrans as Kirtan.
On this day, we give thanks to YOU for being part of the SikhNet family, for following the accomplishments we have achieved by Guru's grace over 20 years, and for sharing a portion of your Dasvandh to help others around the world.
Even though each of its three legs is equally critical and indispensible to a stable stool, today, I will zero in on only one of the three legs — giving and sharing. I leave the other two for another day.
Today, SikhNet performed the Bhog ceremony for the global Sahej Paaths that we organized at the end of October to #PrayforPunjab.
I had blogged previously about The Martian, the movie where Matt Damon is stranded on Mars. But there are people in the reckoning to make real-life trips to Mars, and at least one of them’s Indian: Taranjeet Singh Bhatia.
Last fall, the World Food Program ran out of money to help feed the 80,000 people who live at Zaatari, a camp about 10 kilometres from the Syrian border that was set up in the early days of the war.
Lee Hsien Loong on Saturday evening (Nov 28) paid tribute to the Sikh community, which he said has made significant contributions in many fields since the early days
"We come here because we get food... A hot meal. It's a luxury for me." John Davidson is 55 and homeless. He is one of 250 people who have just received a hand-out of hot soup, drinks, chocolate bars and other supplies...