Amid the ongoing row over former Congress MP Jagdish Tytler being included in the official delegation to the Olympics, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak (SGPC) President Avtar Singh Makkar on Sunday said that he would be writing a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in protest of the former's inclusion.
But in Sikhi, while our Guru acknowledges that there is much suffering in life, there is more to life and the universe than mere suffering. No, life is so much more than suffering.
A Sikh man who was jailed in Kabul for "falsely claiming" to be an Afghan when he was deported from the UK, and says he was bullied and tricked into making a televised conversion to Islam, has been flown back to Birmingham by the British government.
India has put in place a $5.4 billion policy to provide free medicine to its people, a decision that could change the lives of hundreds of millions, but a ban on branded drugs stands to cut Big Pharma out of the windfall.
Signaling a likely end to one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science, physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe.
I recently received an email from Priya Kumar, a doctoral student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and who recently completed a TEDx Talk about the role of the web in the South Asian diaspora.
When author Kiran Lyall recently had her own child she looked for a book she could use to introduce her baby to Panjabi. She noticed there are plenty of books/dvds targeting older children but a lack for the younger ones.
After Guru Arjan Dev’s martyrdom, Guru Hargobind Rai completely transformed Sikhs from just spiritual beings to ferocious warriors. He encouraged people to maintain physical fitness and keep themselves ready for physical combat.
Then we found the tent where they were putting turbans on anyone who wanted one to promote cultural awareness. I fired off frame after frame. the light was perfect and the men who wrapped were artists with the cloth as i think you can see here. it was easily the best part of Canada day for me and proof that things change, if only slowly.
Who says organized religion is bad? Check out history of Sikh Gurdwara Act of 1925 ( A wonderful democratic institution for Sikh Nation and yes, women equally hold offices too)