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Govt books stone pelters for waging war against country
17
February 2010
SRINAGAR: It just takes a judge who is not asleep on the job to find
out the truth and to expose the intentions of a state that is hell
bent on taking away all civil rights... |
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The Poor
People of India
10
February 2010
All those killed by the police are retrospectively termed
Naxals. Public Interest Litigations have been pending in the Supreme
Court since 2007, asking for an inquiry... |
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Surrey Sikh community rallies for Haiti
10
February 2010
Ramandeep Singh
Khaira, a relief volunteer leaving for Haiti, has had trouble
sleeping for the past few.. |
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India Dumps Ambedkar
3
February 2010
If you read about a seminar on Ambedkar, it is almost a given fact
that some Dalit organization will be among those behind it. If an
Ambedkar statue is being raised in... |
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India
Must Not Stop Talking To Pak
3
February 2010
The year has begun on a bloody note for Pakistan . The almost-daily
cycle of violence didn’t stop long enough for Pakistanis to wish
each other a peaceful 2010... |
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Worst fears come true as Jathedars divide Quom
3
February 2010
AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH: In developments that underlined that the
community's worst fears were coming true, the Sikh clergy led by
Akal Takht jathedar Giani... |
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Opinion Makers Discuss Challenges and Progress of Global Sikh Community
27January 2010
Toronto: Meeting for three days from December 18-20th, Sikhs from
all over the world gathered in Toronto at the 2nd Global Sikh Civil
Rights Conference: Preserving Our... |
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Reversing 800 years of history
27January 2010
This is a perspective from Pakistan.
Ayaz Amir is one of the few saner voices in Pakistan, and was
for a long time a columnist for Dawn newspaper before plunging
into... |
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Calendar Issue
and Sikh Life in the Western World
20
January 2010
The
proposed changes in Nanakshahi Calendar recently enacted by SGPC may
jeopardize our important achievement in the Western World. Let me
explain through...
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Uncomfortable Free Speech Part of Religious Freedom
20
January 2010
Is it
possible to protect religious freedom without limiting free speech?
The author who was asked by America.gov the question responds that
religious communities... |
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Ruchika: The deafening political silence
13
January 2010
The high decibel furore surrounding the inadequate sentencing of
former Haryana DGP Rathore has one striking omission: the distinct
lack of statements by politicians... |
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Will good intentions on accidents also get killed on the road?
13
January 2010
When Satyajit Ray was to make his masterpiece Pather panchali, he
asked everyone for money but it was finally the West Bengal PWD that
came to his... |
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Searching for Justice, but where?
6
January 2010
If you want to
be happy about the way public opinion and media crescendo over
denial of justice to deceased Ruchika and her suffering family and
friends has been... |
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Obama & Gandhi: A poseur as a hero
6
January 2010
Norwegian Nobel Peace committee applied a different yardstick to
award 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. It was more for the possibilities and
prospects of peace in the... |
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What’s In A Name? Caste
atrocity, what else?
30
December 2009
Most
people who know the world of journalism in Punjab are well aware of
a Sikh journalist who belongs to "Suniara" (goldsmith) caste but
whose unmarried daughter... |
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Scamming India
23
December 2009
As India prepares to welcome 2010, it will do its intelligentsia a
lot of good to try and come up with a list of top scams that the
country has seen in its short history as... |
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Let's Fight Terrorism
16
December 2009
* So few
turned out at the Indian Parliament to mark the day when it was
attacked that the Indian media shed many a tear, berating the
politicians who cared so little... |
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Doctor, Heal
Thyself!
2
December 2009
Sucha
Singh Langah would hold a little rally in a back of the beyond
village in Gurdaspur’s Dhariwal, but a huge photograph would appear
on the front page of many of... |
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Masked
Genocide and Posturing for Peace
25
November 2009
The ruling Congress is overwhelmingly convinced that Jagdish Tytler
is no embarrassment, but a zealous soldier of the party. It doesn’t
matter if law makers in the parliament... |
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What’s wrong with the
PSEB?
11
November 2009
Forty years ago the Punjab State Electricity Board was a healthy
baby and registering normal growth. It was definitely short of
electricity, but its fiscal health... |
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The Politics of Apology
4
November 2009
Of
and on, we keep hearing demands that the Indian Government, or the
Indian Parliament, or the Congress Party should apologise for the
1984 genocide of the Sikhs... |
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Panthic bodies redouble efforts for Bhai Bittu’s release
14
October 2009
PUNJAB/FREMONT: Gradually, news about Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu is
slipping off the newspaper pages. Gradually, new dramas claim their
space in the theatre of... |
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Whose Independence
Day?
19
August 2009
When it came to August 15, not one newspaper, not one TV
channel, not one politician, not the Sardar Sahib who climbed
the 52 steps leading to the ramparts of the... |
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Some Aussie institutes ruining lives of
Punjabi, other students
12
August 2009
Melbourne: After a large number of students of Punjabi and other
ethnicities came under racist attacks in Australia, India's External
Affairs Minister S M Krishna has... |
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Hindutva movement in Orissa
12
August 2009
Angana
Chatterji’s starting point for her study on the growth of Hindu
majoritarianism in the specific context of Gujarat was a visit she
made to Orissa in the summer of... |
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The
End of The Love of Wisdom
12
August 2009
PATIALA/AMRITSAR: In an intensely material world, will no one ever
bother a bout questions that have agitated human minds over
centuries? In a neo-liberal economy... |
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Indigenous peoples need you Ban Ki-moon
12
August 2009
The world’s indigenous peoples — 370 million in 70 countries — are
the custodians of some of the most biologically diverse areas on
earth. They speak a majority of... |
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Death penalty
5
August 2009
The logic, and politics, of the death penalty is heavily
under-researched, and so remains poorly understood, in the part
of the world that we inhabit... |
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Courting Justice
5
August 2009
More than three crore cases are pending in Indian courts, and
while Supreme Court judges hear 80 cases a day, five days a week,
more than 50,000 are pending there... |
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Buta Singh’s great defence
5
August 2009
Congress
leader and the man India put in charge of its premier commission to
take care of concerns of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes,
Buta Singh, is... |
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Discover Sikhi the Fun Way
5
August 2009
Modern children. Modern Times. Modern Tools. Contemporary life
styles of modern day children all across the world are influenced
more by audio and video, than by... |
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Nothing hunky-dory at the Indian consulates in US
29
July 2009
San
Francisco:
A large number of the members of the Sikh community have been facing
massive problems at the Indian consulates in San Francisco
and New
York... |
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PM's Sharm el-Sheik coup alters
subcontinental reality
29
July 2009
For
the last few days, ever since Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
met his Pakistan counterpart at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm
el-Sheik, Egypt, the... |
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Racism Alive and Well in America
29
July 2009
President
Obama while recently addressing the annual meeting of the NAACP said
that people were being discriminated based on their race, religion,
and sexual.. |
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Cry Freedom: Return Kashmir to
its Peoples
29
July 2009
Members and
activists of the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners
visited various parts of Kashmir between 24-28 July 2009. They
included academics... |
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The Climbdown
22
July 2009
It is interesting to see that while Punjabis across both sides
of the border lead a major peace lobby and the Sikhs are in the
forefront of wishing a permanent peace... |
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The Grammar of Rape Money
22
July 2009
After a few shameful incidents of rape and murder of Dalit girls in
UP, a jolted CM Mayawati asked her top police officer to visit the
victim families. The DGP allegedly... |
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Seechewal’s Moment of Truth
22
July 2009
Baba Seechewal will have to understand and engage with the
larger notions of the debate about environment. It isn’t about
cleanliness as much of the debate marking... |
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Vidya Vichari
22
July 2009
Members of the Diaspora in richer countries wanted to contribute
but the state has failed to evolve any model or policy to facilitate
that. Those who took the initiative... |
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BJP infighting
continues
15
July 2009
India's right wing party that dreams of turning the entire country
into a monolithic Hindutva nation and is way out of step with social
and economic realities is now tearing... |
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The Great
Poverty Debate
15
July 2009
At
a time when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh incessantly talks of
inclusive growth, a concept that the Sikh community can only welcome
because it is in perfect... |
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1984 –Who,
What, How and Why
15
July 2009
Activist-writer Ajmer Singh answers many questions agitating the
Sikhs and raises several more for Sikhs and others to answer in his
third book of what is transforming... |
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Racist Attacks
8
July 2009
SYDNEY: At a time when many in the Sikh community are worried about
the race related attacks in Australia against Indian students, a
large number of Punjabi... |
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Independence Day in a
Sikhi Way
8
July 2009
CARMICHAEL:
Fourth of July is the most spectacular event in Americans' life. It
is a day of parades, barbeque, dance, and fireworks. Independence
Day night gives the... |
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Liberhan’s
Languorous Ways
8
July 2009
In the late 1990s, many Sikhs often demanded a complete and
independent investigation into the causes of what government of
India loves to call terrorism in Punjab... |
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How we keep losing Kashmir?
8
July 2009
Thanks to the progress in the field of communication, it has become
so easy to lose track. Events and happenings move at such speed that
most of us barely have time... |
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1984
Unimaginable Tyranny
1
July 2009
Harmandir Sahib occupies a special place in the Sikh psyche. It is
an exclusive territory of the Sikhs open to people of all
persuasions. Disturbing its reigning peace... |
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We, The Racists
1
July 2009
In a recent TV debate, well known scholar and an expert on
issues concerning the question of caste, Gian Singh Bal, during his
comments on the recent racism-inspired... |
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Being Compatible
1
July 2009
Bewildered at the twists and turns of Indian
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, our young columnist,
Charanjit Singh from Mumbai, writes a missive to him... |
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Juxtaposing Shame
1
July 2009
Nothing
better illustrates the flaws in
India’s
legal and political system than a comparison of the treatment meted
out to Binayak Sen in Chhattisgarh and that enjoyed... |
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Away
from Lalgarh, a macroview
24
June 2009
Areas under the control of Naxalites are mostly remote, sparsely
populated, under-developed. Even though Lalgarh is currently in th
news and seems to be centre of... |
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BJP Tears Itself
Apart
24
June 2009
Calls to the BJP's top brass to shun this hatred-spewing ways of
Hindutva, shift away from the RSS and find focus elsewhere than on
divisive issues at one stage... |
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No possibility of scrapping Prez poll results: Iran
24
June 2009
Tehran: After
holding the country in its tight grip for 30 years, Iran’s clerical
rulers are in disarray and battling the most serious challenge to
the Islamic regime since the... |
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Equal Opportunities Commission & Sikhs
24
June 2009
The Sacchar Committee Report now forming the basis of many
affirmative actiosn in India regarding the minority communities has
spoke of nearly 30 per cent of the... |
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Men in uniform are Kashmir's problem, not solution
17
June 2009
Those who use the media filter to
try to understand what is happening in Kashmir should realize
they're looking at a shadow play. A curtain lies between events and
us... |
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Sikh MP shames Indian Parliament on Operation Bluestar awards
Column
17
June 2009
NEW
DELHI: Shaming Indian parliament, the country's rulers and its
policies vis-à-vis the Sikhs right inside the Parliament of the
nation, Independent Rajya Sabha Sikh... |
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Let’s carry each other’s heads
10
June 2009
Today I read in the newspapers about a bill brought before
Parliament about the possibility of Canadian victims of terror being able to
bring suit... |
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Shopian anger spreads, Kashmir singed with
protests, curfew, siege, firing
10
June 2009
SRINAGAR:Kashmir
remained on the boil all through last week, and ever since the Lok
Sabha polls, the valley has been in turmoil. Curfew style
restrictions are in force... |
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Massive protest at San Francisco Indian Consulate
10
June 2009
SAN FRANCISCO: As the Sikhs marked the 25th anniversary of Indian
Army's attack on Sri Akal Takht and Sri Darbar Sahib, a massive protest was
staged outside the Indian Consulate in San Francisco... |
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To St.
Jarnail Singh, With Love
10
June 2009
My
8 year old son, Sahib Singh, looked curiously at as I tied my Kesri
Dastaar. “Dad, is it a special day today” he asked, when I was done.
He was more curious than usual since I don’t wear Kesri Dastaar... |
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Welcome to India, where people have thrown out the govt
3
June 2009
Kolkata: Good
things are happening because people have thrown the government out
of their lives. Welcome to Lalgarh, now administered by the People’s
Committee... |
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Kashmir back to normal: killings, protests,
firing, curfew, cops on rampage
3
June 2009
SRINAGAR:
In the din of Indian democracy's shrill orchestra in Delhi and even
as oath taking proceeded to put Manmohan Singh's team in place,
Kashmir was back... |
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A Stitch in time saves nine, may be ten
27
May 2009
A slow but silent revolution to change agricultural habits,
rural eating and drinking habits is on in Punjab. This is a peep
into how it is happening... |
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Vaisakhi
–The Song of Love
27
May 2009
Can there be religious fervour without Love? Can one love God
and His creation without Love? How is Vaisakhi as a song of love
a major contribution of... |
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How the world saw Indian Elections
20 May 2009
It is important for the Sikh community to keep a watch on how
the world media assessed the Indian elections. The publication of these
distilled experts is no indication... |
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Left alone to mull over the loss, and its reasons
20 May 2009
Kolkata/New Delhi: These are tough times for the Indian Left. The
debacle-hit CPM has already postponed its central committee meeting,
triggering... |
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Turban versus Helmet
20 May 2009
The author
of How Europe is Indebted to the Sikhs – Role
of Sikhs in Europe during WW II , Vol. II, chronicler
Bhupinder Singh presents the,,, |
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All Jumbled Up
13
May 2009
On
May 13, when this WSN edition will be in your hands, India will be
voting in the last phase of elections to the Parliament.
Irrespective of who wins or loses, one... |
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Rediscovering Roots
13
May 2009
Hirdey Singh had
heard stories about the religiosity and bravery of the Sikhs from
his parents and elders who had never descended on Punjab soil in the
last two... |
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Guilty! Human Rights Watch indicts Sri Lanka
13
May 2009
Tales of horror from the safe zone fails to awaken the United
Nations. The leading human rights protection body calls for an
immediate session of the UN Human... |
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And how much did the farmers get?
5
May 2009
NEW
DELHI: Black Money is a term much bandied about, but this will give you just an idea of what exactly is
involved. The issue of Indian black money in secret bank... |
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STOPPING Academic Fraud
5
May 2009
In response
to the contentions of wide sections of the Sikh community about
the work and motives of Prof Pashaura Singh, Dr. Charles Louis
of University... |
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Repatriating
Heritage
5
May 2009
Jagdeesh Singh of Sikh Community Action Network, UK writes to
Queen Elizabeth seeking repatriation of various heritage items of the Sikh
nation taken away by the... |
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What kind of doctor would you
prefer?
29
April 2009
Been thinking of
doctors of late. First, First, some
budding doctors at a medical college in Tanda, Himachal Pradesh. In
the middle of learning about anatomy and... |
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Denying Justice After the Genocide
29
April 2009
Who
is more powerful: The Joint Director of the CBI or the Reebok
sneaker of journalist Jarnail Singh? In a complete expose of the
ways in which India's top sleuthing... |
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Interpretation Of
Dreams
29
April 2009
“No nation can chart out its domestic or foreign policies unless it
has a clear understanding about itself, its history, its strengths and
failings.” Jawaharlal Nehru could... |
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Fields Afire
29
April 2009
But for the everyday act of cultivation, there is almost no sector
of agriculture that corporations do not dominate. Seeds, fertilizer,
pesticides, other inputs. Prices... |
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Whose Responsibility is it to protect
22
April 2009
The death of Eelam Tamils and the
destruction of their homeland in Sri Lanka have prompted
Jagmohan Singh to write an Open Letter to Charles Anthony, the
son of... |
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BJP & Federalism
22
April 2009
Akali
Dal manifesto released by the epitome of decentralisation of power,
Sukhbir Singh Badal, promised to work for decentralisation of power
across India by pushing... |
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Next generation of terrorists will come from
Pak says U.S. think tank
22
April 2009
As if
things weren’t already bad enough in Pakistan, which is in a suspended state
of anarchy, a U.S. think tank is the latest in line to amplify... |
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Too many Jokers In The Pack
22
April 2009
The
biggest political gamble is on in India, and the number of jokers in the
pack is increasing. At last count as this WSN edition was going to the
press... |
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On the Other Foot
22
April 2009
Piety
sits uneasy on those who condemn Jarnail Singh. His identity as a
human being precedes the badge of being a journalist. And what he did... |
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BJP aims to reap communal divide in
Kandhamal
15
April 2009
KANDHAMAL/BHUBANESWAR: In blatant display of communalism, BJP
candidate Ashok Sahu in Orissa's Kandhamal made highly inflammatory
speeches and had... |
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Varun Gandhi: RSS, BJP make it naked Hindutva game
8 April 2009
From
"It is not my voice" to "Varun says CD is doctored", the BJP-RSS
Hindutva lobby has travelled the hate mile rather fast. Now, the RSS'
newly... |
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U.S. steps up pressure, as Pak dodders towards complete anarchy
8 April 2009
Pakistan is teetering on the edge of a total collapse. Last week the
country was rocked by a series of bomb blasts and a U.S. drone attack. In
all these... |
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Where are the
others?
8 April 2009
Jagdish
Tytler is a well known man. Too well known. So is Sajjan Kumar. So
were a bunch of other worthies, the HKL Bhagats, the Kamal Naths,
the... |
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Time has Come to Change the Global
Institutions
1 April 2009
With the rapid decline of the West and visible rise of the East,
time has come to change the global institutions. All these
institutions were developed in an era when... |
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Woh Haath Kaat Daalega...
1 April 2009
PILIBHIT/NEW DELHI:
Notwithstanding the differences the size of Indian Ocean among India's
political parties, they would agree on one thing -- Not a single
politician... |
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Terror: A
Humane Approach
1 April 2009
Till
now we had only heard of secret torture prison camps, hell holes
like the
Guantanamo Bay or similar such facilities run by the developed ... |
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Sleeping With
The Enemy
1 April 2009
Anyone trying to
preach to the ruling Akalis, or better still, to Akalis who intend
to enjoy political power, should be well advised to hold his words... |
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Mock and Win
1 April 2009
In the
backwaters of the sleepy town of Sirsa, far away from the Grand Trunk Road,
the makeover started... |
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RSS has new chief who says India is a Hindu Rashtra
25 March 2009
NAGPUR:
The RSS, India's topmost right wing demi-political organisation that
dreams of turning the country into a theocratic Hindu rashtra
announced a new chief in... |
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Obama turns the page on Iran, sends video message
25 March 2009
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD:
In a bid to reverse United States’ isolationist foreign policies and
actions aimed at a belligerent Iran over the last three decades,
President... |
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India fakes
it, shamelessly
25 March 2009
LUDHIANA:Whether
or not this was an act of bravery is for the WSN readers to judge
but one thing is clear: it certainly was an act of extra-ordinary... |
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Uranium: Wealth or
Woe
25 March 2009
Whilst tragic
results of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are
well documented, the environmental and health problems that are a
consequence of... |
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..And the winner is..
18 March 2009
Angad Singh’s second documentary film, Roots and Wings,
speaks to anybody who faces challenges on account of being
"different"- whether visibly or ideologically... |
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Sri Lanka’s dirty war
18 March 2009
The
Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said in Washington that
“civilians caught in the war should be safely moved to government-controlled
areas... |
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Southern California showcases Sikh Art &
Culture
18 March 2009
SANTA BARBARA: They came from Los Angeles, New Mexico, San
Francisco, and Sacramento and of course Santa Barbara and beyond. They were
art... |
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BJP’s young face wants to cut a lot of hands
18 March 2009
LUCKNOW: India’s
Right Wing Hindutva party’s young face and a scion of the
Nehru-Gandhi family from estranged daughter-in-law Maneka Gandhi,
Varun Gandhi... |
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“Unless I am lying!” Well, You Were Lying
11 March 2009
LONDON: Unless
we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are
lying, that I am lying, that behind this there is some kind of secret state
which... |
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Justice H R Khanna: Hero for Human Rights
Struggle
11 March 2009
Last
year in February, India's Supreme
Court made a formal Full Court reference, hailing Justice H R Khanna,
one of
India's sterling judges and a hero for the cause of... |
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India's
Parliament: School For Scandal
11 March 2009
You
have probably heard before that of the 543 men and women elected to
the Lok Sabha in May 2004, 125 had criminal charges against them.
Many among us have... |
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Election 2.0
Church and State Issues Remain
11
March 2009
Even
as Punjab's ruling Akali Dal moves miles away from the panthic
agenda, Sikh issues and even Punjab issues, and Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal and his... |
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Are Sikhs Stupid
4
March 2009
Bhai Sahib Sirdar Kapur Singh, (M.A. (Canterbury), Ex-ICS and
National Professor of Sikhism, in his characteristic style, in this
speech delivered in Vancouver... |
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Leading Life
4
March 2009
Courtesy the rare photos of veteran photo-journalist Jaiteg
Singh Anant, World Sikh News presents a window to the life of Bhai
Sahib Sirdar Kapur. Born in 1909, like... |
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The Sikh SIRDAR
4
March 2009
Interesting
things invariably happen from unexpected quarters. Writers, former civil
servants and political leaders had nearly forgotten about the birth
anniversary of... |
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SlumGod
25
February 2009
Slumdog
Millionaire is a story well told. Like all stories, it is also one story. No
one story can be a whole civilisational narrative. In the pre and post-Oscar
hype, the... |
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SYA knocks at Dallas, sets panel for
proactive work
25
February 2009
DALLAS (TEXAS): In a move clearly underlining the proactive
approach of the Sikh Youth of America, the forum has opened a
chapter in the state of Texas with an... |
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Shining with shame
25 February 2009
At
a time when the Sikh community is trying to prove in courts that
former Indian Union Minister Sajjan Kumar led blood-thirsty mobs... |
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Amritsar versus
Mohali
18
February 2009
Look Towards
Amritsar. This has been the slogan for Sikhs yearning for religious
and spiritual harmony with self and society. From the time of its
founder Guru Ram Das, the city of Amritsar... |
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A design to block opportunities
18
February 2009
A new Bill puts in peril reservation for the Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes... |
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Gadchiroli: Where Naxalite Storm Is
Rising
18
February 2009
At
the ramshackle teashop in Gadchiroli, where locals gather for their
morning tea and the town's favourite snack, poha, local banter is
run-of the-mill. Most of it is centred
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Understanding Hindutva
terror
18
February 2009
The way
India is going, it seems some people think that Hindu terrorism is an idea
whose time has come. There is of course something fragmented about the idea,
it is... |
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“Moses down the mountains”
11 February
2009
It
was very special to have known and worked with Noel up at Merrill
College/UCSC. We had many good times talking and laughing. It was
very special to have known... |
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UN fails Sui Kyi, India undeterred
11 February
2009
RANGOON: Repeated visits by UN envoys to Burma have had no effect on
the military junta ensconced in Burma. All overtures by the United Nations,
including that by... |
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In The Name of
Honor
11 February
2009
In scene after
scene, the Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye, looks up towards the heavens
as the shout goes up Tradition! Tradition... |
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Dalits asked to eat shit to
participate in yagna
11 February
2009
RAJASTHAN: AT A TIME when India's right-wing
ultra-nationalist political party, the BJP, is once again
communalizing the polity ... |
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The Widows Who Shame India
4
February 2009
India is racing towards elections. So this is that time of the year
when you will see political parties digging up bones new and old to
derive some mileage. That is how... |
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Are Indian non-state actors coming
from heaven?
4
February 2009
At a time when
India is making so much noise about Pakistan's non-state actors who
unleashed terror in Mumbai, little is being talked about the
non-state actors... |
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Installation of 40 foot high Nishan Sahib at National Gurdwara
4
February 2009
Washington DC:
Two day
celebrations marking the installation of 40 foot high Nishan Sahib
topped by a four foot Khanda Sahib were held at the National
Gurdwara on...
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Sath Punjabi celebrates Lohri with
aplomb
4
February 2009
SUNNYWALE: As many as seven hundred people-men, women and
children, in full family atmosphere, enjoyed the fun and frolic at
the annual Lohri festival organised... |
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Tigers Tamed?
28 January 2009
When the February 2002 ceasefire came into force, the military
parity between the two antagonists, the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and
the Tamil fighters of Tamil Eelam... |
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The Sri Lankan Endgame
28 January 2009
Sri
Lanka's rulers are painting themselves as the victors. many Sri
Lankan army officers have spent an entire career fighting the LTTE.
They seem to have succeeded... |
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Hindutva’s Eleven
28 January 2009
Mumbai
: At a time when India's brahamanical forces entrenched in most
political parties have been able... |
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A Foundation of Good Work
28 January 2009
The
Sikh nation gave to the world the concept of Langar, a revolutionary
philanthropic institutionalised system of succour... |
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Punjab and the study of Ranjit Singh
21 January 2009
At this juncture, when the seven tribal agencies along the Afghan
frontier are lost to any form of government control, and Swat--once
paradise on earth... |
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Indian Samaj Sudharaks
21 January 2009
A
few years ago, a news despatch in The Washington Post quoted a
police officer describing torture methods refined by police officers
in India... |
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Modi lovers too
have a dream, a dream we must frustrate
21 January 2009
Can the politics
of communal polarisation practised successfully in Gujarat be
replicated in the country?... |
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Sacrifice at Hazur Sahib –
Myth & Truth
21 January 2009
The Internet has provided a forum for free speech which is being
abused by all and sundry to project their views with the finality of
an intellectual... |
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Samurai Sikhs
21 January 2009
NAGPUR: Khadak Singh Joone has lost count of the years he has lived.
“I'm a hundred and ten,” ... |
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And Then They Came For Mea
14 January 2009
No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their
lives for their art save the armed forces ... |
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Still Hungry
14 January 2009
How much does it
cost to take the first step in the direction of Sarbat Da Bhala? The
UN estimates say with $60-80 billion a year additional... |
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War Games In
South Asia
7 January 2009
THE war of words
between
India and Pakistan continues to escalate. During the past two weeks,
the advantage has shifted to New Delhi... |
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WHO ARE
THE REAL TERRORISTS?
7 January 2009
Israel claims that it is fighting “terrorism” -- the same hollow
excuse with which the U.S. tries to justify wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq... |
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Now that the tanks have rolled in
7 January 2009
Tanks have
rolled in. Public pressure is at peak. And so is Israeli public's
support. Ever since Hamas triumphed in the Palestinian elections
nearly three years ago... |
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DNA test clears UK abandoned kid’s journey home
7 January 2009
HOSHIARPUR: The
DNA tests of an 11-year-old Sikh boy found abandoned in London last
year have established that he belongs to a family near Tanda town in
Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district... |
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The
Responsibility to Deliver
7 January 2009
This has been a difficult year for all of us. I have called it “the
year of multiple crises.” The coming year promises to be no less
difficult. Our commitments and good intentions will be tested as
never before... |
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Fall of Killinochchi
7 January 2009
The Tamil
Tiger capital is under possession of the Sri Lankan army, but the Tamil
battle for Eelam is far from over... |
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Sikh Year of
Remembrance
31 December
2008
Greetings in the
Name of God –the light of every soul.Welcome. I welcome you to this
world with prayer on my lips and hope and remembrance in my heart... |
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City officials discuss Traffic Lights installation near Gurdwara Fremont
24 December
2008
FREMONT: The
increasing flow of Sangat to Gurdwara Fremont has led to the city
managers planning to install traffic lights near the Gurdwara.
On 15 December... |
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Sikhs unhappy as Badal makes RSS man V-C of PTU
24 December
2008
CHANDIGARH:
Despite protestations by many Sikh groups, the Punjab government has
gone ahead and appointed Rajnish Arora –a former Vice President of
the... |
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Bay Area Sikhs and Muslims Hold Candle March
24 December
2008
FREMONT:
Hundreds of Sikhs and Muslims walked the streets of Fremont with
candles in their hands, holding placards protesting the human rights
violations in Punjab... |
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Rights Gone Wrong
24 December
2008
Although the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted sixty years
ago by the UN General Assembly, stated that all human beings are
born... |
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Celebrating Christmas
24 December
2008
As
we grapple with the terrorist attack in Mumbai, the communal
violence in Orissa, the outbreak of farmers’ suicides, and many
other brutalities and injustices around us... |
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Death of a
statesman
17 December
2008
It
is surprising that while it suited the entrenched brahamnical
forces in India to ignore the death of former primer minister
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, even... |
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Sehajdhari? You are either a Sikh or not
17 December
2008
Sehajdharis are
not Sikhs should be the clear stand of SGPC in the high court in the
cases before it, as there are no categories in Sikhs. One is either
a Sikh or not... |
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Hinging on Violence
17 December
2008
While
the flames around the seafront Taj Mahal Hotel's Italianate dome
have died down, and crews of cleaners have washed away the blood on
the... |
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Human Rights & Terror Laws
10 December
2008
Human rights may become the biggest casualty if the government
enacts a new terror law, choosing to give in to the cacophony from
all sides after the attacks on Mumbai... |
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Will Kilinochi be the ‘Stalingrad
10 December
2008
By
the end of this year, we will know whether the civil war in Sri Lanka
is won by the Sri Lankan armed forces enabling the Rajapakse
government to dictate their terms... |
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Smartly protecting Sikh-American
Rights
10 December
2008
In a determined way, SALDEF
continues to contest civil liberties violation cases at individual
and institutional levels in the United States... |
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Sikh Tenets and Human Rights
10 December
2008
Gurbani reflects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
activists need to imbibe the spirit of both... |
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Rights, Sikhs and
Canadian Multiculturalism
10 December
2008
Be
alert, vigilant and responsible to enjoy continual enjoyment of
rights.
We believe that humans, like all other beings, are created by God.
We also believe... |
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Europe fails Sikh rights
10 December
2008
United
Sikhs strives, individual victims bravely hold out, but not only France
even the European Court of Human Rights has failed to protect the
Right to Turban... |
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Eelam Rights and Indian
Intervention
10 December
2008
The meeting of
the representation from Tamil Nadu led by Chief Minister M.
Karunanidhi with the Prime Minister of India on 4 December 2008
failed to achieve its basic... |
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Abolish Death Penalty
10 December
2008
The Sikh nation
is committed to right to life for all. The Sikh people have
demonstrated their commitment to abolishment of death penalty for
all crimes at all times... |
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Champion Rights as a mission: Justice Ajit Singh Bains
10 December
2008
In an
unblemished career, spawning four decades, octogenarian human rights
activist, Justice Ajit Singh Bains (Retd.) has served Punjab in
various capacities... |
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Let's Cry Again, 'Coz This Too Was Heritage
3 December
2008
India cried. We cried with India. It took being less than human not
to shed a tear. The country is angry. Reasonably so. Its people are angry.
Its media is angry... |
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Organizations Defy Sikh Foundation
Objectives, Call for a Forum
3 December
2008
The Coalition of Gurdwaras of California and Sikhs for Preservation
of Sikhism and Sikh Heritage, on behalf of the Sikh community, invite ... |
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Globalization of Terror and the Mumbai
Massacre
3 December
2008
A little less than a dozen heavily armed men descended on the so
called resilient Mumbai on November 26, 2008 and started their operation.
Splitting in squads, they hit the ten different locations... |
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Recalling the Forgotten Sikhs
26 November
2008
SIKHLIGAR
GHETTO,
SHOLAPUR: Meet Poonam Kaur. 12 years old, wearing a simple salwar
kameez with the dupatta over her head, demure, shy but knowledgable... |
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Obama: Rhetoric of change and hope
26 November
2008
For the
politics of identity and diversity, election 2008 was
historic. The changes that were first politically visible with Bill
Clinton’s Presidency... |
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Kim Bolan, Why do you hate the Sikhs so much?
12 November
2008
Canada must provide total freedom for its press -freedom to slander,
freedom to abuse, misrepresent and tarnish any visible minority
community in its midst.... |
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Phoolka seeks world ban for
84 killers
5 November
2008
Activist-advocate urges British parliamentary
intervention against pogrom perpetrators. |
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Gurbani, Man & US Election
29
October 2008
Do you have to be a mystic, someone totally devoted to looking for
God as a vocation in life who can finally attain better wisdom, some
higher form... |
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An eclectic scholar leaves legacy of a
lifetime
29
October 2008
This is Prof
Pritam Singh, said the voice on the phone. “Ji, Professor Sahib,” I
replied, even as I instinctively sat up in my chair.... |
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How religious texts are quoted to defend positions
22 October 2008
MONTREAL: Sikhs invoke the
Guru Granth Sahib to justify men wearing turbans instead of hard
hats on work sites. Muslims point to the Koran as proof the prophet... |
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TIME mag’s Hero Seechewal now broadens agenda
to fight real & bigger war
8 October 2008
New York: Hailed
by the Time magazine of the US
as one of the 30 "Heroes of Environment", Sant Baba balbir Singh
Seechewal known for his revolutionary... |
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Unholy smoke
1 October 2008
In a country
where lakhs of poor people who just mange a square meal by rolling
tobacco leaves to make bidis, the lowly Indian version of a
cigarette.. |
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Hindutva Terror
1 October 2008
Hindutva
project is on. Before the elections to Karnataka, top BJP brass used
to say they will turn Karnataka into second Gujarat.. |
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Anti-hate measures kick in for New
York school system
10 September 2008
NEW YORK: As a considered response to attacks on Sikh students in
New York schools, the New York state has brought in rules and
regulations, to combat bullying... |
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Sikh ideology: What it stands for?
3 September 2008
This article is largely meant for foreigners, children of Indian
parentage born in foreign lands and parents who want to help their
children grow up in Sikh traditions... |
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Diverse Holidays
3 September 2008
Children in Quebec will now know about Guru Nanak as schools
willensure that they don't just mark the arrival of just Christmas
any more - now they will be required... |
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University
of California Riverside Rebuffs Sikhs
27 August, 2008
Los Angeles:
Sikhs in Diaspora were dealt yet another blow by the University
of California at Riverside by endorsing Mr. Pashaura Singh’s
academic credentials... |
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Plea to the United Nations
27 August, 2008
Meanwhile, in
Washington, a number of Kashmiri activists, led by Ghulam Nabi Fai
of the Kashmiri-American Council, have urged United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon... |
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Hindutva terror in Orissa as frenzied VHP
mobs burn women, attack churches
27 August, 2008
Bhubaneswar:
VHP's frenzied mobs displayed the Hindutva brand of spiritualism by
burning women alive, attacking churches and killing innocent
Christians... |
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Our turbans made family, friends and
Sikh community proud
20 August, 2008
The decision of wearing a turban was a no brainer for us. The
media did have a great time with it. Some called us selfish for
trying to "stick out" or suggesting... |
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Tatla is first turbaned Sikh regular officer
in Canadian Air Force
20 August, 2008
TORONTO:
At 35, Tatla was a married father of two with no previous military
training who had arrived at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt
west of Victoria... |
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Vedanti’s Exit Shocks Diaspora Sikhs
13
August, 2008
The Coalition of
Gurdwaras in California and Sikhs for Preservation of
Sikhism and Heritage take stock of the tenure of Akal Takht
Jathedar Giani Joginder Singh and appreciate his
contribution and condemn the Badal Dal for working under RSS
and BJP pressure tactics. |
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Surjeet and the Sikh struggle
13
August, 2008
In his
insightful analysis, the author has evoked many issues as
well personalities, including Harkishen Singh Surjeet. WSN
presents here an extract from his book, Identity and
Survival: Sikh Militancy in India 1978-1993 in which he
depicts the mindset of Surjeet from the perspective of the
Sikh community. |
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India
has institutional framework but no respect for human rights says ACHR
6 August, 2008
In a report which
will upset the rights fraternity, a watchdog group by the name of Asian
Centre for Human Rights released the South Asian Human Rights... |
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Ishmeet Singh Academy, Awards In His Name,
Road too
6 August, 2008
LUDHIANA: Central Ludhiana
came to a halt when the who’s who of the Sikh world and the ordinary
folks from far and wide converged on Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha... |
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Manmohan Singh's less talked about
achievement: Claim 2009
29
July, 2008
After the trust vote
of July 22, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has emerged as the King
Cong. The victory slogans, the beating drums, the garlands tossed... |
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Mil Ke Gaavo: Happy Birthday to
Dear Sukhbir Ji
16 July 2008
Personal
life of a politician is often more educative than all the pious
platitudes he spews in public. So when a series of Akhand Paths
across Punjab... |
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Sikhs, Canada and Human Rights
9
July, 2008
The Sikh community’s commitment as a spiritual community to
respecting each other and humanity at large, regardless of faith,
race, or income... |
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US Supreme Court grants major relief to immigrants
2
July, 2008
In a landmark 5-4 judgment which can have major ramifications for
Sikhs and other immigrant communities in the United States, the US
Supreme Court.. |
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Dangalnama
18
June,
2008
The Lift Festival in conjunction with Theatre Royal Stratford East
has been hosting Flame Production’s Dangalnama this month.
Dangalnama is a gripping... |
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Geelani beats the system and adds
solace to 1984
11
June, 2008
AMRITSAR:
Invariably every year, the June 1984 ceremony at the Akal Takht and
other places in Punjab is an all-Sikh affair. Prior to the Saka
Akal Takht... |
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This Sikh student gets an apology but problem is far more serious
11
June, 2008
NEW YORK: Setting an example and signifying how seriously the
western society takes the issue of religious freedom and equal
rights, Chancellor Joel Klein... |
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Sant Jarnail Singh –a multi-faceted
personality
4
June,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
Various facets of the personality of Sant Jarnail Singh were debated
at a seminar organized by the Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Panch
Pardhani)... |
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What Gujjars want, and Why?
4
June,
2008
India's middle
class' grunt-in-residence juvenile angst auntie Tavleen Singh gets
prime place in leading English language journalism, often representing... |
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Spokesman continues its blasphemous tirade
28
May,
2008
AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH: The Sikh nation takes legitimate pride that the
Guru Granth Sahib contains the original writings of the Sikh Gurus
and... |
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“Sikhs in Print” exhibition opens in Liverpool
7
May,
2008
LIVERPOOL:
Twin
sisters Amrit and Rabindra Singh, well-known in the field of art,
offered another treat of their work to those who may want to... |
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Academics engage with abuse of minorities in India at SSA event
23 April 2008
BERKELEY: On
Thursday, April 17th, the UC-Berkeley Sikh Students Association (SSA)
hosted a teach-in called “Human Rights and Religious... |
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Women more vulnerable to cancer in Punjab:
Study
9
April
2008
CHANDIGARH: A
religious belief appears to be guarding Punjabi men against a dreaded
disease. According to a recent study, more women are dying from cancer... |
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Iraq War: Five Years Later, No End in Sight
2
April
2008
Five years have passed since the start of the Iraq war
yet no end seems to be in sight. President Bush’s claim of victory
in the war looks completely false... |
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The Legend of Tejinder Singh Sibia
26
March 2008
Isabel
Garcia, 73, was expecting a phone call from Tejinder Singh Sibia
(Ted Sibia) when she noticed his obituary in Sacramento Bee on March
9, 2008... |
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If there is Corn In Your Soup,
Don’t Land In It
19
March 2008
Of all the voices, at least the journalists harping about the demise
of diversification should have heard the voice of Goldman Sachs or
Jeff Currie... |
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Harbhajan Singh’s Dilemma: to be or
not to be
8
March 2008
Quoting
the tenth master, Harbhajan Singh has stirred a hornet’s
nest, with the faithful seeking more of him... |
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Does size matter? And what’s the size
anyway?
5
March 2008
How
serious a nation is in tackling a problem or engaging with it is
often deduced from how seriously it views or quantifies the problem... |
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Ocean of Pearls Premiering at The Miami
International Film Festival
13 February 2008
“Ocean
of Pearls” is the first movie to be made out of Hollywood by a Sikh
director, Sarab Singh Neelam. It will be premiering at the 25th
Miami... |
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Jatinder Pal
Singh is Mr Singh pageant champion
13 February 2008
MUMBAI:
A tall strapping Sikh at the Mr Singh contest put it succintly when,
after struggling to find work as a television actor for a year, he
found... |
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Jathedars begin blame game, Sikhs seek new
systems
6 February 2008
There is nothing more painful than witnessing the fight of Takht
Jathedars. Instead of showing signs of statesmanship, they are
fighting like small-time... |
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Every Farmer Counts, but India fails to read such
slogans
6 February 2008
NEW DELHI: After finding the
Indian State apathetic and the media hardly putting their plight in
perspective, activists finally got together the children of... |
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Kurr Phire Pardhan
ve lalo
30 January 2008
A
time comes in the history of nations when every member of the
nation, particularly of a fledgling nation must speak up. I believe
that the Jathedars... |
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Sajjan Kumar incited mobs to kill Sikhs, says
Gurcharan Singh
30 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: "WE EXIST, You just don't
see us" was the searing frontpage headline in a recent edition of
the World Sikh News while bringing... |
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Dr. Swaraj Singh’s California tour leaves
lasting impressions
23 January 2008
SACRAMENTO: Sikh
ideology was never intended to be merely reduced to ritualistic practices. Gurbani
principles address modern crises directly... |
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Accountability and Media: A
Murky tale
23 January 2008
The CPI(M)'s
Prakash Karat has expressed strong views on the entry of FDI into
Indian media. WSN columnist Prof Jagmohan Singh takes him... |
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Point about
kirpans
23 January 2008
One of the most
protected people in India, the Prime Minister, at the Golden Temple, is
surrounded by people, each of whom wears a kirpan... |
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Ham and Eggs
16 January 2008
This is the most exciting presidential election of my lifetime.
Excitement tends to bring out the extremes in media. And in this
primary... |
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Intellectuals Mull over
Whither Went Sovereignty?
16 January 2008
THE
operation Blue Start of June 1984 created turmoil in Sikhs’ relationship
with the Indian nation state. If 9/11 attack on twin towers rocked... |
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OK fine, We've messed it up. Now, will you lend a
hand?
9 January 2008
One of the things the
Diaspora, particularly the NRPs, can teach the Punjab folk is the stress the
developed societies lay.... |
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Cry, the beloved country beckons
you!
9 January 2008
Yesterday
I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. I was awash with
perspiration. I found myself in tears. I was weeping. This was
unlike me. I have been strong and... |
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Six dolphins confirmed at Harike in Punjab
9 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: Experts of
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have confirmed the sighting of six rare
Indus freshwater dolphins in the Harike barrage... |
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Filming a community's concerns
9 January 2008
Film pages of even
community newspapers are so often full of Mumbaiya stuff that passes off as
film that serious cinephiles.... |
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One Monkey and a pack of wild dogs
9 January 2008
In India,
it is very difficult to escape cricket. If India wins, it is the saviour of
the country and if it loses, the national honour of the country gets sullied |
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Prodigal daughter
2
January, 2008
In the
end, it's the first impression that lasts. Certainly, that's how it
was for Benazir Bhutto and me. I never knew her well and what little
interaction... |
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My friend, Benazir
2
January, 2008
Sitting in my digs at
Cambridge after dinner during the Easter vacation of 1976, Benazir,
who had driven over from Oxford that morning with her friend... |
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Calling Citizens Foreigners. Is it fair
26 December
2007
The Diaspora communities are
often at the receiving end in the host country but the most
vulnerable are the immigrant... |
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Other Merchants of Death
26 December 2007
I have a high regard for your political party --Pattali
Makkal Kacthi, founded by your illustrious father and I am glad that
coalition... |
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Why victims' families oppose Death
Penalty?
19 December, 2007
Lorry Post
is an organizer with New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty. He founded the group in 1999 to honor his daughter, who
was... |
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The Sikh Stars
19 December, 2007
Ishmeet Singh’s emergence as the Star Voice of India in a high
eyeball gathering Indian TV channel reality singing talent contest, coupled
by the increasing awareness about identity among... |
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Indians in Malaysia, and why is New Delhi
handicapped?
12 December, 2007
As a community newspaper, the WSN often takes up
causes and cudgels that have to do with the Sikhs, but then.... |
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The Fifth Cup is Poisoned Bread of Caste
12 December, 2007
The Sikh community's singular failure in
engaging and addressing the fallacy and menace of caste within the
fraternity has come to ..... |
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Is SAD (Mann) finsihed in the West?
5 December, 2007
In the last ten months the number of
those who support Simranjit Singh Mann and belong to SAD (Mann) in the UK,
mainland Europe, Canada and the USA have naturally... |
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British Indians too indulge in foeticide
5 December, 2007
LONDON: British Indian women are as
prone to the secretive, outlawed practice of female foeticide as their
counterparts in the mother country and they generally travel... |
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Ishmeet visits Darbar Sahib; says govt should set up
music academies
5 December, 2007
AMRITSAR: Ishmeet Singh, the new singing
sensation from Punjab, feels that the Punjab government, in order to promote
music in the state... |
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Hagiophobia to Sikhiphobia
5 December, 2007
Though you were physically killed on the night of 4-5 June 1984, you
continue to inspire the Sikh youth. The Indian state and the
Indian media are still mortally afraid of you. They are scared... |
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A Massacre Is a Massacre
28 November 2007
When is a riot not a riot? When is a massacre not a
massacre? When is a mass murderer not a mass murderer? And when is
public... |
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Sikhcess plans 50,000 food packages’ delivery to North
America’s Homeless
21
November, 2007
Washington: Sikhcess, a Sikh community organization dedicated to
highlighting Sikh achievements and... |
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Houstonians open homes for interfaith dinner dialogue
21
November, 2007
We, at the WSN, are reproducing this report with
the suggestion that the Sikh community would think seriously about
launching.... |
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Software suite to knock down Punjabi script barriers
developed
21
November, 2007
CHANDIGARH: A Punjabi software suite to
knock down Punjabi script barriers has been developed at the Advanced Centre
for.... |
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Medha Patkar responds to
WSN initiative
21
November, 2007
I suppose I haven't met you as yet or may be I am wrong. Your letter
has drawn much response from many readers. thanks for the support.
.... |
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A needy Christian from Malawi takes a shot in the
dark, finds light and spirit of Sikhism
14
November, 2007
Blantyre, Malawi, SE Africa: Imagine
sipping on green tea and checking your last unread e-mail before heading to
bed at 2a.m. - and it is from one Davie Kasinja, a young African man... |
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IN PRAISE OF NEPOTISM
14
November, 2007
Nepotism is an interesting
phenomenon any day, and there has been some serious scholarly work
on the merits of nepotism in the last few years. Americans
censure... |
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Open letter to S. Parkash Singh Badal
31 October,
2007
It is tradition in Punjab that when one
is communicating to an octogenarian person, then one should not express too
much hanger and hatred.... |
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For the
world, Burma will always mean Aung San Suu Kyi
10 October, 2007
Men
of the stature of Mr Vaclav Havel, the former President of
Czechoslovakia, and Bishop Desmond M. Tutu of South Africa, both
Nobel Laureates, have documented the misery... |
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Buri Nazar Wale, Tera…
3 October, 2007
Of the
many things common between the East Punjab and West Punjab are the
crazy, colourful, earthy slogans written behind trucks, and in the
same language. But people... |
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Sher-e-Kashmir Sant Singh Teg rides to death
20 September, 2007
Obscure
and inaccessible villages in the deep ravines of the Kashmir valley
have scant resources and very little touch of the progress of the
human race... |
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Anniversary of the abduction of Jaswant Singh
Khalra
12 Septembesr, 2007
Twelve years
ago, on September 6, 1995, the Punjab Police abducted human rights
activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. The police held Khalra in illegal
detention for almost two months, tortured him, and murdered him in
late October 1995... |
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Remembering the revolutionary
5 September, 2007
Dear Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh ji,
As the birth centenary of the great martyr Bhagat Singh, begins from
28th September, the day he was... |
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OF a racial Marquess, a Sikh taxi driver
15 August, 2007
London: Across Britain, and across the Sikh
community in Punjab and the Diaspora here in the US and elsewhere..... |
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Mistake booked Book Misses Guru
18 July, 2007
SACRAMENTO: Months after the California Sikhs
had successfully got the State Board of Education to get..... |
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George Thomas — The Ruler of Haryana
4 July 2007
Born in a poor Irish family of Tipperary
(Ireland) in 1756 A.D, George Thomas could not get proper education.’ He
became a sailor and arrived... |
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SGPC is vandalising Sarkare-Khalsa memories
27 June 2007
I am seething with anger since the day the SGPC
demolished the historic Baradari within the Golden Temple Complex in
Amritsar. I am angrier... |
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As far as Sikhs are concerned, India, today, is just
like India Today
27 June 2007
AMRITSAR: India's leading weekly magazine
India Today's latest edition (July 2) is a commemorative issue, the first of
the our such issues... |
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Sikhs and the law of the land
27 June 2007
A deredar of Sirsa has insulted the Guru of the
Sikhs, the history of the Sikhs, the principles and traditions of
the Sikhs. More than a month... |
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'Amritsar
Times fast emerging as voice of the Sikh Community'
20 June, 2007
Times and the World Sikh News are increasingly
emerging as the voice of the Sikh community. Correct presentation of panthic
issue through... |
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Lessons From Dera Row
6 June, 2007
The cancellation of protest march from Gurudwara
Fatehgarh to Chandigarh put a dampener on the spirit of thousands of Sikhs
who wanted to demonstrate their hurt psyche. When Jathedar had made it
clear that... |
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Dosanjh-Hayer ilk and the concept of Miri-Piri: A
study in negation
6 June, 2007
Throughout the Canadian Media's disinformation
campaign to malign the global Sikh community following the Indian
government's 'diplomatic protest... |
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Gur Ki Ninda Sune Na Kaan
23 May,2007
Pen is mightier than the sword; and camera is
mightier than the pen... |
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Akhar, a Punjabi Word Processor
9 May, 2007
Till now Punjabi
keyboard was used to type Punjabi; it was just a type writer with no
formatting features of a modern ....
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Sikhs use Vaisakhi parade to collect record-breaking
aid for Daily Bread Food Bank
2 May,2007
TORONTO: In what a beautiful way did a section
of the media describe the ushering in of Vaisakhi... |
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Admn prepares to minimise emissions in Golden Temple's
periphery
2 May,2007
Amritsar: Finding the concentration of suspended
particulate matter from 296 to 586 microgram per cubic metre against the
permissible limit ... |
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The Guru Nanak Prize
28 March 2007
NEW YORK: Nominations are being invited for the
Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, a US $50,000 award for a living individual or
organization... |
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Pak Sikhs want kids to settle in India
28 March 2007
Amritsar: Many Sikh families living in Pakistan
are finding it difficult to find a suitable match for their children and are
keen to settle... |
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SHAME Visits India As 2007 Dawns
3 January 2007
NOIDA:
Which was the most horrible
horror film you ever saw? You ain’t seen nothin’. Meet devilincarnate
Moninder Singh Pandher... |
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The Dismal State of Human Rights in India
20 dec,2006
Twenty
two years ago more than 3000 Sikhs were massacred in a planned pogrom. On
November 1, 1984 a day after Mrs. Indira Gandhi... |
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The First War Ever?
6 Dec,2006
The
Government of India has decided to celebrate the anniversary of 1857 as the
First War of Independence. A debate has been raging about the... |
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Sikhs in Afghanistan live in hellish conditions, yearn
for home
29 November, 2006
KANDAHAR (AFGHANISTAN): They yearn, they
pray, they want to return home. They wore yellow patches in the... |
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Finally, Canada prepares to come to terms with the sad
chapter of Kamagata Maru
29 November, 2006
VANCOUVER: A measure passed in 1908 in
Canada prohibited the entrance of migrants who had not sailed directly to
Canada from their country of origin... |
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Guru Nanak and his mission of humankind
1 November, 2006
In these times there are conflicts, violence and bloodshed
everywhere.Atomic threat haunts humankind. People are .... |
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Asian women lowest paid workers in UK
25 October 2006
LONDON: Leading black and Asian
professional women in Britain have called on their peers to “storm the
doors” of blue chip companies, following... |
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Sikhs are now more visible faces in US
25 October 2006
EDISON: The train station billboards tell
it all. Local travel agents promise the best airfares from New York to
Mumbai. Shagun Fashions is selling dazzling... |
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Monty Panesar, a true Sikh sports icon: SGPC
18 October, 2006
New Delhi: In the midst of its row with
cricketer, Harbhajan Singh, for featuring in a liquor advertisement, the
Shiromani Gurdwara..... |
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Punjab is now balle-balle with this airline
18 October, 2006
Chandigarh: Bhangra-pop at 35,000
feet in the air, hostess saying Sat Sri Akal and catering incudes tandoori
chicken with makki-di-roti .... |
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Reiterating commitment to the cause
4 October 2006
CHANDIGARH:
It was 25 years ago
on September 29 that in the first such major action, the Dal Khalsa hijacked
the Indian Airlines... |
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A choice of heroes
4 October 2006
My hero,
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. On May 28, 1998, at 3.16 p.m. Pakistani Standard Time,
my hero shook the granite mountains of Ras Koh... |
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Riverside Gurdwara & Pashaura Singh
4 October 2006
On Sunday,
October 1st, the management committee of Sikh Temple, Riverside in
California took a hard position on the ongoing panthic... |
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