She told me how grateful she was that the Coalition was doing these presentations and creating teacher-friendly materials. She knew she had “come to the right place,” and thanked me for spending time with her students.
Punjabi American Heritage Society would like to thank Honorable Assemblyman Dan Logue for introducing the resolution (ACR 20) to call on Public Universities in California to recognize Sikhism in their curriculums.
He was intelligent, lively, and hilarious. He was eight. I had a spiritual experience as I explained to him, in French (my mother tongue), the meaning of his Gurumukhi name: the lion of peaceful light.
We may never understand what kind of hate and anger drives a person to take the life of another, but we know it must stop. There is no room for hate crimes in any society,....
In southern California, the Board of the Jurupa Unified School District recently enacted a provision allowing Sikh students to carry a kirpan — a sword or blade that is an article of the Sikh faith — on its school campuses.
ACT, Inc., has selected Parminder Jassal, Ph.D., to head the ACT Foundation as the founding executive director. Dr. Jassal will provide leadership and strategic vision to launch the Foundation with the objective of improving underserved students’ success in both education and the workplace.
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbanhak Committee President Avtar Singh Makkar here said that Uttar Pradesh Education Board has slapped ban on baptized Sikh (Amritdhari)students to wear kirpan in schools.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM history was made in the Oregon Senate. The full Senate voted 21-8 to repeal the 87-year-old ban on religious clothing for public school teachers.
On Wednesday, the government in the northern Sikh-dominated state of Punjab passed a resolution in the state assembly, demanding France lift the ban there.
