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India On The Hunt, Media In Tow
17
February 2010
Four months
back, India was struck by leaks from Home Ministry about Operation
Green Hunt. Now, it is clear that all it meant was application of
broad spectrum antibiotic of police... |
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 Sri Lanka Must Focus on Minorities Now
10
February 2010
The January presidential election campaign as well as the
post-election developments in Sri Lanka indicate quite
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Historical Mistake
3
February 2010
Not long ago,
fears were being expressed after the Vienna
incident that Punjab is set for a caste conflict and that it could
lead to a communal divide between dalits and mainstream Sikhism.
While such... |
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 What Republic Is India Talking About?
27January 2010
Tanks on the road, thousands of children pulled out to perform on a
chilly morning, a country displaying its deadly capacity in arms,
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The Right to Self-Defence
20
January 2010
This week,
India's Supreme Court has given an interesting judgment, one with
which we have no problems in agreeing. A division bench at the apex
court said since the world is struck by terrorism and mafia and
citizens... |
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 Joysticks,
Fiddlesticks, Sadsticks
13
January 2010
Not very long ago, we had used the word "Fiddlesticks" to describe
the way Indian hockey was going downhill, but it seems the real
nadir has been hit now. While it... |
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This New Year, We Will Speak Out
6
January 2010
As the world
celebrated a New Year, the Sikh Nation joined in the global
atmosphere of happiness and reiteration of good intentions in the
form of New Year resolutions... |
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Debating Human
Rights
30
December 2009
For a long time
now, we at the World Sikh News have been trying to dovetail the
debate about the crisis being faced by the Sikh Nation with the
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 After
the change, Akalis & BJP
23
December 2009
For many years,
Prakash Singh Badal has kept up a strong relationship with the BJP,
and a peculiarly intense friendship with L K Advani ensured that
Akalis were able... |
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 Valley’s Secrets
16
December 2009
It tears our hearts asunder to note that a movement led by
completely devoted fighters of the Sikh community did not come close
to a situation to which those fighting... |
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 The WSN Human Rights Journey
9
December 2009
Community journals are generally inward looking and community forums
for internal discussion and debate. They are a journal of the world
of a particular community... |
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 Will Sharmila have a meal?
2
December 2009
North East has
sent twin rays of hope, and we are grateful for any ray of hope,
considering the treatment bein meted out to the Sikhs and their
concerns in India. For a... |
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 Be In The
Forefront of Rights Battles
25
November 2009
India is
presently preparing to fight a war against the poorest of the poor,
and it is doing so because the richest of the rich are eyeing the
minerals and the land where the adivasis... |
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 Religious Environment
18
November 2009
It was the late American writer Michael Crichton who had said that
environmentalism is a religion, with its own creed and its own
versions of paradise and hell. Well, that... |
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 Let’s complete the
narrative
11
November 2009
Men possessed by
a zeal to do God's work scour the streets of Trilokpuri, Sultanpuri
and several such areas in Delhi, trying to understand where they can... |
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 Who Were The Guilty?
4
November 2009
As India's civil
society shunned all civility and societal concerns, choosing to
remain largely silent and passive, the Sikh Quom marked 25 years of
Denial of Justice... |
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Revisiting 1984
21
October 2009
In
less than a week from now, the Sikh nation will suddenly remember the
victims of November 1984 anti-Sikh carnage. Just a week back, the whole
nation was in a mood of festivity and little... |
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Arnie, you missed the chance!
14
October 2009
California
governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to veto AB 504, popularly
known as the California Kirpan Bill, has been nothing less than a
shock. Clearly, Arnie... |
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 Patterns of Discrimination
7
October 2009
* Indian
Government appoints a Hindu retired judge to head the Gurdwara
Election Commission that oversees elections to the SGPC and other
gurdwara bodies... |
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CBI sinks deeper into stink
30
September 2009
For 25 years,
the Congress refused to give justice to the Sikhs by neither following up
action against its own leaders, nor sidelining or dropping them from the
party nor proactively following... |
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Terrorism & The Reds
23
September 2009
Just as this
edition of the World Sikh News was going to the press, Indian electronic
media was crowing about the grand achievement of the Delhi Police in nabbing
an... |
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India’s special cops
16
September 2009
Hundreds of Sikh
youth in Punjab perished in encounters that were clearly fake. In
tens of cases, the fact that the encounter deaths were actually
murders in cold blood... |
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The arrests and the
verdict of history
editorial
9
September 2009
How ridiculous
can ridiculous be? Well, here is a sample. The SGPC president, Avtar
Singh Makkar, appointed by Sardar Prakash Singh Badal, ensures that
a huge... |
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 Outsourcing Political Honesty: A Solution
Most Pernicious
2
September 2009
In a most fantastic solution proposed to bring about honesty and
integrity in public life at least among those who are in Indian
politics on the Right of the Center... |
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Who is Alice in Blunderland?
26
August 2009
Alice In
Blunderland is a classic phrase that has not only captured the
imagination of the Indian political animals but aptly explains the
very way the Indian polity runs... |
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Dead Men Walking
19
August 2009
For a community
journal coming out in the United States and accessible on the web to
the community diaspora worldwide, it is rather peculiar to make an
editorial... |
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Our Audacity of
Hope
12
August 2009
The World Sikh
News is a community newspaper and we would be more than happy to
confine ourselves to comment on community issues. Fortunately, we
are... |
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One day, they will discuss you at campus
5
August 2009
For
a community that prides itself on its self-respect and gairat, just
have a look at the way things are going. Across the world, the best
and the brilliant of the... |
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 Oregon takes
on Obama
29
July 2009
Six
months ago, the world saw the rise of a person who irrespective of
the colour of his skin and his multi-nation background became the
President of the United States... |
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 Of Caste, Rifts & Bridges
22
July 2009
There is little
gainsaying in repeating that India remains in the vicegrip of
Brahamanical forces, and the latest phase of politics in India,
exemplified by the Congress... |
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 Welcome
to India, Hillary, but…
15
July 2009
Sikhs
befriend politicians in high places and earn goodwill for the
community quiet easily. Courtesy the good offices of Sant Singh Chatwal,
Secretary of State -Hillary... |
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 Join
The Dots, Re-do The Maths
8
July 2009
For
a long time now, vast swathes of land in
India have virtually been under the control of Naxalites/Maoists
even as New Delhi struts the world stage as a growing power... |
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 Lessons From Amritsar to Ayodhya
1
July 2009
The Liberhan Commission report on Babri mosque has done all things
for all people, except anything for the wronged community or
offering solace to the... |
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 25 Years: Take Stock Politically
24
June 2009
The company of long years does have an effect on any
political party. For years now, the Akali Dal's fraternal
vice-like embrace with the BJP-RSS has made.. |
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 25 Years: Let’s Move Into Phase II
17
June 2009
In her
scintillating speech in Ottawa at the World Sikh Organisation’s
function, Dr. Cynthia Keppley Mahmood referred to a beautiful movie
which she called “one of the... |
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 25 years. Time to think through
10
June 2009
It is a sad fact of contemporary history that the Sikh religious and
political leadership has developed a rather strange kind of
faultline and we need to pay attention to this... |
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 Twenty
Five Years: The Journey
3
June 2009
Twenty
five years ago, the Sikhs saw the entire Indian establishment
marching against them, led from the front by the Indian Army that
brought in tanks and heavy... |
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 Too Many Questions
27
May 2009
Who killed whom in Vienna? Did the Sikhs kill a non-Sikh? Was it
internecine rivalry between particular sections of the community?
Who are the people... |
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 He’s dead.
Is cause too?
20 May 2009
Sri Lanka is an
example of the might of the state. No individual, no forum can be capable of
as much ruthlessness as can be a nation state when it shuns all scruples... |
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 Elections & Diaspora
13
May 2009
The diaspora’s interest in any election in Punjab is understandable
and this time too, a number of Punjabi-origin people canvassed in
favor of one party... |
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Counting curses in Indian Election
times
5
May 2009
Elections provide a unique opportunity for a playing out of
issues and ideas, of experimenting with new ways of reaching out and
mobilizing people, above all of... |
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Watch your MPs
29
April 2009
Performance-rating and statistical analysis, including psephological
comparison of the work of candidates from respective parties has picked up
during the current... |
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 Subverting the course of justice
22
April 2009
Now
that the decibel level about killer leaders Jagdish Tyter and Sajjan
Kumar has come down a few notches, it is time to reflect on what was the
real problem this time... |
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Revisiting 1699 and Neo-Liberalism
15
April 2009
As Sikhs celebrate Vaisakhi the world over, it is time we
travel back to the day in 1699 and understand its significance. The
foundation of the Khalsa was a great and...
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The Sole Question: A Question of Your Soul
8 April 2009
"But what kind
of a defence is this? If I have a feeling that I have not got
justice, or if I feel that you are not seeing my point of view, should... |
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 Error margin in Rahul Gandhi’s Lab
1 April 2009
Rahul Gandhi is a young face of Indian politics. He comes from the
House of Nehru-Gandhis which has a lot of baggage attached to it as far as
its... |
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 India must walk the talk in J-K
25 March 2009
Kashmir has been going through for a long time now what Punjab
suffered in the early 1990s: the State as a killer. Except of course
with one difference. In Punjab, it... |
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 Sirsa Dera: The Real Answer
18 March 2009
What possibly
could have exercised the leaders of the Panth, the top brass of the
ruling Akali Dal, those at the helm of the SGPC in these times of
troublesome... |
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 Waiting for
next Sikh PM
11
March 2009
Seventy plus
Manmohan Singh, with his light blue turban, almost as a brand of his
middle of the road political management approach, looks destined... |
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 Kapur Singh to Gurcharan Singh
4
March 2009
The Shiromani Akali Dal –the party that Kapur Singh
represented in the Indian Parliament did not learn anything from his tenure
and contribution. The party... |
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 Sewa Family Style
18
February 2009
How does one respond to the innocence of the shrewd? The
candidness of the crooked? The politically correct platitudes of those who
mean not a word of what they... |
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Shamelessness In Saffron Colour
11 February
2009
So far, no
reasonable critique has emerged to counter the common refrain among
the right-thinking people in Punjab... |
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Children of a Lesser God
4
February 2009
Scene 1: Two days ago in the Jaswantpur police station area -not very remote town
of the largest state of Uttar Pradesh in
India, a five year
old poor Dalit girl -Komal... |
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 Tamils’ Cry Freedom
28 January 2009
Sri Lanka
is using war to usher in peace, and the world is missing the irony
of it. The separatist LTTE is on the cusp of a defeat... |
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Sikh-ing from Obama
21 January 2009
Caught in the multifarious crisis, the Sikh community should
be looking out for signs in the transition phase as well as the way
the Obama presidency will conduct itself... |
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 King, Obama and I
14 January 2009
Five days after
the birth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr, Barack Obama will be
installed the President of the United States of
America... |
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 Kashmir’s Unfrozen Turbulence
7 January 2009
It
is easy to make a mistake when reading the results from the Kashmir
elections. And trust the Indian government to make the mistake... |
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 Be
Vigilant, The Blind Are Asleep too!
24 December
2008
These are
certainly not easy times. The Sikh community is braving through
a host of improbably complicated set of coordinates: an Akali
Dal which is hell bent on compromising... |
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 Hurling
a law, winging a shoe
17 December
2008
At a time when
the world is celebrating the 60th year of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, India has tripped, and tripped badly... |
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 Celebrating Universal Human Rights
10 December
2008
It gives an innate satisfaction in these grim and divisive
times to celebrate the idea and spirit of universal human rights and
the 60th anniversary... |
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