Browsing Tag: Hate Crime

After the Wisconsin Gurdwara tragedy,... now a fellow community member has received death threat with a warning that more lives were at risk.

Even as the govt. express their commitment to protecting Sikh Americans in response to the massacre, there is one glaring problem with how govt. monitors hate crimes against Sikhs in America: It doesn’t.

San Antonio is known as a Mexican-American city. Yet it’s also home to a small but vibrant South Asian community, including Muslims and Sikh religious followers. Most find the Alamo City tolerant, but there’s still ethnic tension here.

I miss my brother almost every day. It's a big thing. But I never wanted to go back to India, never lost my belief in America. A documentary film was made about me. They called it, "A Dream in Doubt." I don't know why they used that title. My dream is not in doubt. It's confirmed. I'm going to live here my whole life, and I already have the dream.

Each time she visits the intensive care unit, she said, she recalls the day her grandfather walked out the door to join his friend Singh for their afternoon stroll. "I wish I had the ability to press a button and go back to that day and just tell my grandpa to stay home," she said, her eyes filled with tears.

In a surprising twist to a hate crime case, a California man who previously pleaded guilty of assaulting taxi driver Harbhajan Singh, told the court Friday that he plans to change his plea.

“For the hate crime enhancements to stick, the prosecutor must prove that there was no explanation other than pure anger at how this man looked,” said Veena Dubal, staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus.

Her 2004 play Behzti sparked riots and death threats. Now Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti is back with a play about that furore. Behzti revisited …

Jagmohan has one set of attorneys to look after his educational needs and another to ensure he receives justice for past wrongs