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This latest work on Sikhism is an exquisitely conceived anthology of a dozen essays by some of the most perceptive contemporary sociologists and historians - Western as well as subcontinenal, the outcome of a University of California seminar.

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)‘.

The Rightful Owner is a saga of sacrifice, selfless love, greed and patriotism. It has in it the elements of mystery, suspense and drama.

You don't even open this book conventionally: it reveals itself as you first lift one cover then the other. The symbolic presentation recreates the underlying values and openness of its subject, the Golden Temple, the heartbeat of the Sikh way of life.

Five years in the making, The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old.

This is an endeavour by the author to complete the Sikh migration map by covering countries about which little is known and hence is a pioneering effort in Diaspora studies.

"I have known Vishavjit and enjoyed his talents for some years. Today, in this collection, I celebrate how far he has come and where he is headed. And it is time to bring his genius to the many that need to appreciate it." - Dr. IJ Singh (an excerpt from his review)

Living with his family in Kuala Lumpur, and under the guise of a number of civilian occupations, Gurchan Singh began his resistance movement.

“Sikhism” is a comprehensive viewpoint of the Sikh scriptures, traditions, history, festivals, homeland, and the Sikh Diaspora.

I’m talking about experiencing the hidden, indirect racism we tell ourselves does not exist in the Great White North (I won’t even go there!). Perhaps we’ve just been fortunate to have such great friends from diverse backgrounds. Let me make it known though, it is happening in Canada.

"The Magic 'Degh'" retells those Sikh stories and legends which highlight the core values propounded by Guru Nanak. They flow from his fundamental belief that all human beings - men and women - are created equal. These values have resonated through the centuries.

When secrecy is used to protect a higher order of knowledge, it can make the keepers of the secrets think of themselves as a higher order of humans. Corruptio optimi pessima, goes the old saying. Blight at the top is the deepest blight. It is the sin of taking God’s name in vain.

A lovely new biography of Guru Nanak Dev Ji for children ages 9 and up.

SikhToons artist and suthor Vishnavjit Singh, with his unerring eye and sly sense of humor, has just published a delightful book on the concept, art and style of the Sikh turban

The casual sounding title, ‘A Little Work, a Little Play,' may understate the importance of the book by Sardar Hardit Singh Malik, but it is consistent with his style of handling history-making events and people with natural ease and equanimity. The book covers many decades of fascinating history, some of which he helped shape.

S. Harbinder Singh Rana of Anglo-Sikh Heritage Trail writes, "A remarkably well researched work offering a refreshingly alternative perspective on the Anglo-Sikh Wars and the surging imperial intrigues that presaged them."

Centuries after Guru Gobind Singh wrote 'Zafarnama' or the Epistle of Victory' and sent it to Aurangzeb in March 1705, it speaks of the thirst for the divine and transcendent as powerfully as it did then.

Artists Rabindra and Amrit Singh say: "We definitely need to . . . counter the negative stereotyping that so many of us grew up with . . . [This will come] from a better knowledge and pride in who we are, which involves looking to the exemplary, too often hidden figures in our history."

This is a coffee table book – one more to quite a number that have been published in recent years – though possibly with a difference. It is third of a series by the same publishers on Sikh shrines and spirituality. Its 156 pages are full with pictures and the written text is an eyeful and informative.

Siri Kirpal Kaur's inspiring book is simple, straightforward and unbound by dogma. She explains Sikhi in language anyone can understand and she has a great talent for cutting away confusion, obscurity and controversy. Like the poetry of Puran Singh, this is book written from true love of Sikhi...

Divine intervention did indeed take place when the Arizona Interfaith Movement came up with a brilliant idea to build bridges among different faiths. The idea was to compile a book called "Interfaith Inspirations for our Globalized world."

What the book does first and foremost is bring into vivid focus faces that many of us turn away from on the streets every day - out of shyness or confusion; out of an inability to know how to connect.

I've been blessed with an opportunity to preview Journey with the Gurus along with my family, and I can say for all of us...this is a book that speaks to us! It only took me a couple of stories for me to notice what was different about this book.

The book is a collection of papers presented at an International Seminar organized by the DSGMC to study the 'contributions of Guru Arjan and legacy from different perspectives to make a wholesome study of the period'

But the figure that, so to speak, "gave me permission" to imagine her personality, to invent a woman painter at the very heart of modern art in India - to believe in the possibility of such a woman - was an artist I never met, who died tragically young, and whom I first encountered in a luminous painting by Vivan Sundaram, her nephew.

The book is a jarring reminder that beyond the prism of quotidian life there lies something more profound.

Through these listings, Narindar Singh Dhesi pays tribute to the courage and self-sacrifice of the Sikh soldiers...(and) documents the complete collection of the Regimental Battle Honours won by the Sikh soldiers.

Arunajeet Kaur publishes a new book on Sikhs in the Diaspora

"I found it an enriching experience," says Lonsdale, "Even from age 4, I was aware there was something more than this earthly life. I was on a spiritual quest from that age."

The Book is unique and the first of its kind in the sense that it enables anyone with a knowledge of English to learn Punjabi in a span of 20 hours . It might sound impossible but the book has been written after a lot of research..