Browsing Tag: Controversy

Sadda Haq has been banned in Punjab due to the harsh realities it has portrayed. The movie will most likely be watched by thousands across the world where bans are impossible to enforce.

“Through the film we want to clear the misunderstanding between Hindu and Sikh population, and to inform them about what actually happened and what facts the government presented to the people.”

Adorned with commendable performances from the cast, blended with an awe-inspiring story which is worth telling and seasoned with every other ingredient; Sadda Haq would be a heart-touching spectacle of distressing past of Punjab.

Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar's relatives said they could not understand why the Army's decision to allow the 25-year-old to wear the headdress instead of a bearskin outside Buckingham Palace had caused such disquiet.

And then … then, things soured in the minds of a handful of Sikhs, with post-partum predictability.

Amid the ongoing row over former Congress MP Jagdish Tytler being included in the official delegation to the Olympics, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak (SGPC) President Avtar Singh Makkar on Sunday said that he would be writing a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in protest of the former's inclusion.

“These hymns and chants from Guru Nanak tradition are loved and cherished by millions of Sikhs and Guru Nanak followers around the globe.....This music has the power to promote deep relaxation, meditation contemplation and devotion, regardless of religion and cultural back ground.”

Talking to the media, Purewal said the SGPC and the Akali leadership had done a heinous crime by intermingling Nanakshahi Calendar with Bikrami Calendar. “This is no amendment but total drift towards Bikrami Calendar,” he said, adding that the decision was arbitrary and the original version of the calendar, as adopted in 2003, should be restored.

The film courted controversy after Sikh groups protested a sequence in the film. Kapoor said the matter has been sorted out with Sikh community leaders, and a disclaimer has been added to the film's credit.

Attempts made by pseudo-scholars of Sikhism to try and create controversies are a part and parcel of Sikhism these days.

Singh Sahib asked all Sikhs to not indulge in any controversies in relation to the authenticity of Dasam Granth Sahib

Harbhajan Singh and Mona Singh get caught in the controversy raised bytheir playing Hindu gods on a reality dance show.

Teen accused of using it as weapon could rekindle kirpan-in-school debate.

Pashaura Singh's thesis and subsequent research are based on a manuscript that surfaced in 1987 that he believes is a draft of the 1,430-page document compiled by Guru Arjan.