Browsing Tag: Shoes

Today, despite westernization and concepts of modernity, Sikhs have not deviated from the practice of removing shoes when entering a Gurdwara’s diwan or langar halls. For Sikhs, the bare foot is an expression of humility and connection to the congregation, the Guru, and the Divine.

Pakistan's deputy attorney-general is to clean the shoes of thousands of devotees at India's Golden Temple in Amritsar in 'penance' for the beheading of a Sikh in Peshawar two years ago.

Carrying with them boxes of shoe polish and brushes, members of Nankana Sahib Sikh Yatree Jatha are all ready to visit gurdwaras in Pakistan. This is one of its kind jatha that takes positions in Pakistan gurdwaras on various Sikh religious occasions, and had been doing the free shoe keeping and shining service for nearly 11 years.

How many 100-year-olds do you know, running marathons for charity to help premature babies? It is a case of the oldest for the youngest. And a brain behind an idea like that would have to be really bindaas.