If we understand the answer to the above question, we will clearly grasp why Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana is on death row and probably about to become a shaheed. Do not demand justice from the Indian Government!
Dr. Rajwant Singh, Chairman of the Washington based Sikh Council on Religion and Education, expressed his relief at the temporary stay of hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana due to presidential intervention.
We’ll have to learn to take care of our own for a start. The Singhs in jail, the widows, the orphans, the shaheed families, the drugged out youth, the farmers committing suicides, these are our own problems and we need to think long term about solving them.
KHALSA SAAJNA DIVAS (KHALSA PANTH FOUNDATION DAY, VAISAKHI) CELEBRATIONS WILL BE ORGANISED ON A LARGE AND GRAND SCALE BY GURUDWARA SAHEB AMEERPET, HYDERABAD, AP. INDIA ON APRIL 11 TO 14, 2012.
Baisakhi Day is celebrated each year in the Sikh Community of Southern California with an exquisite Kirtan Darbar and royal Nagar Kirtan. Baisakhi Day commemorates the day in 1699 when the 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji, established the Khalsa Panth; a society dedicated to Purity of Spirit.
The Indian government can’t possibly accept that a mob of people have stayed its hand. That way is loss of face and loss of power both. There is fear of becoming a laughing stock. Without respect a government may as well resign and retire to the wilderness.
You won’t find it on the menu of any self respecting Indian restaurant and while it’s disparaged as food fit only for the convalescent, it also happens to be what I’ve been eating exclusively for the last 40 consecutive days: kitcheri.
On March 31, 2012, the Punjabi American Heritage Society(PAHS) was proud to unveil ‘Becoming American’, a permanent exhibit at the Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County. “The exhibit is a multimedia record of the challenges and success of generations of Punjabi Americans,”explained Dr. Jasbir Kang .
It is quite a change to see so much respect for their heritage and for the tribes that still exist in the country. It is a very spiritual culture and it may remind some North Americans of the Native American cultures throughout the U.S. and Mexico.
“To say that we are inspired by the achievements that the Sikh community has made in the past eighteen months on the environment is an understatement. Each week we receive another story of a Sikh, a Gurdwara, a village, taking initiative to protect and care for the land, air, and water. We are seeing the beginning of a movement....