Op/Ed: Sikh Environment Day & New Year
Today is the first day of the Sikh Nanakshahi Calendar, and is marked as a “new year” by Sikhs around the world. March 14th is also Sikh Environment Day. This initiative was started...
Op/Ed: Society Must Seek to Understand Sikh Community
If there is a land where you can dream of something and achieve it, it is the United States. At least that is what they say. He had heard this a million...
Op/Ed: Fremont Gurdwara Election Updates – Keen Interest by Akali Dal (B) and Kabaddi Clubs
:dateline:As Gurdwara elections are just around the corner on Sunday, we have witnessed a growing interest in who will manage the well known and highly politicized Gurdwara for the next few years....
Should Sikhs Feel Betrayed by the British Government? Part 1
:dateline:Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib ji positioned the Akal Takht in such a way that from the window of the Political Throne of Akal Takht, one could look out and see the Spiritual...
Hindu Extremists Gaining Power in India, Silencing Enemies Along the Way
When Penguin abruptly accepted defeat in an Indian court and withdrew a controversial book a fortnight ago, the backlash was so ferocious it took almost everyone by surprise.
A small, hardline Hindu group...
Op/Ed: Sikhs Must Reclaim Their Historic Mission to Liberate the Masses
In his famous epic entitled Babarvani, Guru Nanak describes the atrocities committed by the Mogul Emperor Babar, and his forces, as they swept from Persia in the East to the Punjab in the...
A Candle in the Dark: The Legacy of Jaswant Singh Khalra
September 6th marks the day when the Punjab Police abducted the Human Rights Activist, Shaheed Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra, from his home never to be seen again. The judicial process in India...
Loyal Citizens Betrayed by Indian and British Governments
The delivery of pre-partition promises by Congress leadership, was the only Sikh political objective up to June 1984. At no time was there any Sikh threat to India’s integrity as a country.
In the...
