Browsing Tag: Tradition

What if you want to do something crazy? Something that not many people have even considered before? What if you want to break with tradition, completely? That’s exactly what Shawn Singh Tucker and Baljit “Bally” Kaur Lehal did during their Anand Karaj this summer in Atlanta, GA. “We walked side-by-side during our lavan,” said Shawn.

That woman is the lesser gender even today is beyond debate. And that’s not the question. Today I merely offer plausible hypotheses of how such practices very likely took birth.

She always tells them: "You never know who might be watching." If word gets back to the village that a young woman has stepped across the village’s moral boundaries — ....

Going back more than five centuries, Sikhism is a religion founded on peace, but forged by self-defence, resilience and defiance.

The decision making tradition of Sarbat Khalsa was evolved during the first half of the 18th Century. It is likely to be revived and further developed through seminars like those arranged by the Sikh Research Institute.

If anyone knows anything at all about Sikhs it is their martial antecedents. It is usually the first (and often the only) topic that Sikhs and non-Sikhs touch upon when the subject is Sikhs or Sikhi.

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 group of Milton High School students bring weapons to school, and no one is complaining. But don’t worry, it’s the school’s fencing team and the blades must be in locked containers and supervised when brought to school or tournaments.

A middle-aged woman stood up after a screening, her voice heavy with emotion. The films had made her weep, she said. She'd been in America for many years and raised two sons. One had opted to wear a turban; the other had cut his hair short. The mother accepted both. "I'm begging people, other religious leaders, to respect that," she said.

He told me that those who had gone to the temple on that day with me were a Hindu, a Muslim and a Buddhist. There were no restrictions in any religious place for anyone...

Bhai Baldeep Singh is uniquely privileged to belong to the 13th generation of a family of illustrious ragis from the time of the great Sikh Gurus.

The United Sikh Association of New York University (NYU) served langar to university students on October 29th, 2008.

The Shaheed Sikh Missionary College here has made special arrangements to impart its training to pupils.