By Monday (June 4, 2012), the world was awash with the story of a blue turban on the Queen’s Boat during her Jubilee celebrations and the flotilla sailing along the Thames. By Tuesday, e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e was talking about it.
Sikhs in the UK will serve langar along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay on July 21, informed United Sikhs Project Director Langar, 2012 Mejindarpal Kaur on Wednesday.
All through his career as an army officer, General J.J. Singh kept his faith and religion personal. He said when he became army chief, he was described as the first Sikh to head the army.
Jakaras were heard in the White House this past Friday during a briefing on Sikh civil rights issues in the heart of the federal government. The briefing, a historic first, was organized in collaboration with the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the White House Office of Public Engagement at the request of the Sikh Coalition.
10,000 Sikhs march from Hyde Park to mark 28 years since the 1984 Sikh genocide and the destruction at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, calling for justice, freedom for Sikh political prisoners and the establishment of an independent Khalistan.
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A US-based Sikh body has provided financial assistance of nearly Rs 1 crore to needy students and educational institutions in Punjab and neighboring states.
How can you get your rights if you do not stand for them?
But when you take a listen to the GuruGanesha Band's music, the mantra is definitely there, but fused in "a unique blend of kirtan, raga, rock, and deeply meditative folk music" led by guitarist Guru Ganesha Singh.
“What do you believe” was his follow-up, and in my mind I was fully prepared, my answer ready from years of constant questioning of what a Sikh is, what Sikhism is, why I wear the turban, why we don’t cut hair, all these thoughts were on the tip of my tongue but something else came out. “I believe in Ek Onkar”