Manika delivers a rousing spoken word piece to highlight her charity work to help the Punjab with her 'Kirtan For Causes'.
Nearly 3,000 members of India's Sikh community were massacred after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards on 31 October 1984. The capital Delhi was among the worst affected. Maxwell Pereira was one of the few officers who took action against the mobs in the absence of clear orders. He recounts what happened.
June 6, 1984 is a date that is held close to Sikh people around the world.
The events lasted just over a decade. Sikhs were arrested and held without trial or killed in fake encounters by the army and the police.
It's almost two years ago, on 16 January, 2015, when 83-year-old Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa started his hunger strike
A small part of me also wonders about the anonymous Brahmgianis in the world, the anonymous sewadars...
You must remember that you are a lethal combination of brains and conscience in a world where genocide denial is a growing norm.
Calling it a "step in the right direction", Sikh-Americans here have welcomed the Indian government's decision of removing the names of 225 Sikhs from a blacklist.
We ask for hope and strength, for remembrance and resilience, for commitments and promises to memorialize that dark dawn which hatched upon those pilgrims a crimson cacophony of military bombardments thirty years ago.
But where are you? The one who witnesses, then enlarges the world What happened to you ‘the dominant one’? What happened to melodies of the original Asad?