Browsing Tag: Granthi

A recently posted essay by I.J. Singh titled A Very Human Tragedy was a case report of a Granthi at a Gurdwara caught in a vortex – a psychologically downward spiral of loneliness, depression, alcohol abuse and hopelessness – so severe that he committed suicide...

What she was looking from me was not a sermon on why it was time to brush her teeth and go to bed but support and validation for her whims of the moment.

A volunteer worker at a Sikh temple may be entitled to be paid the minimum wage, a court ruled yesterday.

If a Sikh is to derive guidance for the day from such a reading it becomes imperative that the Hukumnama be randomly chosen. But the human mind is extraordinarily inventive and creative...it can find a way to lock on to a particular reading, like a homing pigeon, to suit its own needs, compulsions and obsessions at any given time.

A GRANDFATHER who claims he was paid 78p an hour – an eighth of the minimum wage – has been given £62,000 by his former employers in an out-of-court settlement.

Giani Pritam Singh Ji, Head Granthi, Sri Akal Takht Sahib, was present on his duty during the army attack and remained there all the while. I have interviewed him about it. Bhai Harbans Singh, S. Swaran Singh Farrash, and Bhai Hari Singh, who remained with him during the attack, were also present at this interview.

A recent spate of articles has made me wish to visit the issue of female Granthis, as an agent of change...