To mark the occasion, victims' families and other Sikh groups march today from Jantar Mantar towards Parliament. These Sikh groups also plan to hand over a memorandum to the Prime Minister...
As it turns out, healthy people who are able to take part in manic thinking - without the corresponding crash - have much to gain emotionally.
....most of it pertains to or arises out of the impulse to record it for history or otherwise to understand and evaluate how much the state machinery was implicit in planning and execution of the Pogrom and continued to be actively engaged in impeding the delivery of justice through commissions of enquiry, use of all manner of witness intimidation, delays and other dilatory devices.
When bullets, blood and terror came to the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on that Sunday morning, Aug. 5, Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy would not give in. In the middle of a gun battle that raged for about two minutes, he found himself wedged beneath a car as the gunman reloaded. And he thought to himself: "I'm not going out like this. I'm not going out in a parking lot."
The campaign - started in 1999 and now in its 13th year - is about more than just donating blood. It is held at this time of year in memory of the November 1984 genocide of Sikhs in India.
In order to craft an Arab identity on its South Asian roots, Pakistan, since dictator Zia ul-Haq’s time, has been renaming its cities and other places after Arab leaders. Lyallpur was renamed Faisalabad after Saudi King Faisal.
Sikhs in Yuba City, California, will be holding their 33rd annual Sikh Parade this Sunday, which is often recognized as the largest Sikh nagar kirtan (religious procession) in the country
Veterans Day is an official United States holiday honoring armed service veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11.
Dakhni Sikhs derive honour and self-respect from their ancestors who were much concerned about self-esteem. When Nizam gave them the jagir of Nirmal, they rolled farman into the muzzle of a gun and blew that off, saying: “We get salary from our Maharaja. Who is he to give us jagir?” The past and the present thus reinforce each other. They boast: “Singhan da dabdba poora hai ji.”
Acting on a petition, Supreme Court has issued notice to the Union government seeking its reply on the issue of separate and distinct identity for Sikhs concerning succession, adoption, divorce and maintenance.