I always knew politics was a funny old game but I wasn’t laughing when media reports confirmed that President Barack Obama had pulled out of visiting the Golden Temple during his state visit to India in 2010.
Later this month, India will be removed from a dwindling list of countries where polio is considered endemic, a huge achievement made possible by people like Madara, a 76-year-old street hawker.
Eight thousand communities in Africa have sworn off female genital excision, including almost 2,000 that abandoned the practice in the last year, the United Nations Population Fund and UNICEF announced Monday.
Sadasat Simran Singh talks about teaching in MPA and the various camps based on the discipline at MPA. They don't just teach meditation, but all school subjects as well as exercise, yoga, gatka etc. He explains that to be a complete Sikh, we have to balance Bana, Bani, Seva, Simran, Shastar, and Shaastar.
“We currently have no representative in the National Assembly or in the Sindh Assembly,” explained the chairman of the Sikh Naujwan Sabha Pakistan, Sardar Ramesh Singh, while talking to The Express Tribune. This is one of the points they brought up at the meeting. One of their demands is that a seat be reserved for Sikhs in the upcoming senate elections.
There is little more daunting than the burning stare of a blank page waiting to be filled with the introduction to a new book. And so it was with the task of writing the opening chapter of ‘The Golden Temple of Amritsar: Reflections of the Past (1808-1959)‘.
There is a universality of the Sikh message that lies beyond the territory and self-limiting boundaries of Punjab, and this universality is entirely consistent with Sikh teaching and practice from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh.
The expressions of hurt and outrage in India that followed recent jokes by late-night comedian Jay Leno and the hosts of the BBC program Top Gear, along with treason charges against a cartoonist, have sparked a debate here: Is the nation too thin-skinned to take a joke?
It was 250 years ago that thousands of Sikhs were killed in two days (February 5 & 6, 1762) at Kup-Rohira near Malerkotla. Known as the Vadda Ghallughara (great holocaust), this massacre of Sikhs at the hands of Afghan invader Ahmed Shah Abdali was a fallout of Sikhs looting money and other precious articles from Abdali's forces, especially after his fourth invasion in 1757.
The Rightful Owner is a saga of sacrifice, selfless love, greed and patriotism. It has in it the elements of mystery, suspense and drama.