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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 clearly that
the dominant political class of the country... |
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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,
and caricatures of culture on... |
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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
larger debate about... |
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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
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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Hunting for terrorists, inwards
3 December
2008
ndia is a force
to reckon with, and we all know that. The terrorists, irrespective of which
country is behind them or what reasons have provoked this dastardly
attack... |
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Religion & the Global Meltdown
26 November
2008
Global meltdown was
to impact the entire world, and
Punjab was neither expected to be immune, nor has it turned out to be. Where is
religion then in this catastrophe?... |
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The son speaketh truth, but only half
19 November
2008
Rahul Gandhi
regrets Operation Bluestar and the Nov. 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom in a
pretty careless manner undermining and underscoring the depth of
anger and pain of the victims and Sikhs in general. |
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Kashmir, Obama
and Justice
12 November
2008
The
president-elect of the United States of
America made an intervention on Kashmir even before becoming the
president. He wanted an early resolution... |
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Colours Of Terrorism
5 November
2008
The
1980s and early 1990s saw India tarring the Sikhs as terrorists. Who
does not remember the kind of laced-with-poison advertisements of
the Congress... |
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Jaisee Mein Aave Khasam Ki Bani
29
October 2008
Rare are the
occasions when religiosity takes over with such fervour. That this
fervour comes at a time when the world is passing through a phase... |
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Where
Centuries co-exist
22 October 2008
On the day when
India sent its first mission to the moon, the country was witnessing
pre-historic attacks in its financial capital, Mumbai.... |
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Zardaris of our times
15 October 2008
Suddenly,
Pakistan's new premier has a new official policy on
Kashmir: Now Kashmiri struggle is 'terrorism' and all those
associated with it, including leaders... |
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Zen and the Art of Terrorising People
8 October 2008
It wasn't very
comfortable decision for one of India's most
corporatised newspapers, The Times of India, when it invited the
compassionate monk... |
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Meddling With ‘Who is a Sikh’ Question
1 October 2008
Every few years,
Indian courts receive petitions from some mischief makers and some
apparently aggrieved people questioning the definition of a Sikh... |
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Masters behind masterminds
24 September 2008
Who stands to
gain the most if the entire focus in India's body polity turns
towards terrorism? Who tends to gain if attacks on Christians are in the
headlines?.... |
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Terror, soft targets and shenanigans
17 September 2008
For those who
are engaged in a fight of justice with the government of India,
ordinary people in the streets and markets are soft targets... |
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No Copyright on Human Rights
10 September 2008
After a long
time, the scary death of Ajit Singh Poohla has again brought the
issue of human rights into focus in Punjab, albeit for a few days
only... |
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Revenge
Overtakes Justice
3 September 2008
Revenge
has a
sweet-bitter tinge to it. When individual vengeance becomes a mass
feeling it becomes all the more strong and vehement... |
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Partition Is An Idea
27 August, 2008
India is once
again struck with the idea of Pir Panjal mountains marking a
division. Top Indian intellectuals have started talking about
dividing the state... |
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Kashmir: No rights, only wrongs
20 August, 2008
The Indian
response to strife and rebellion is rhetoric and more. When
Kashmiris want more rights, India does more wrongs. When
Indian and international... |
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Akal Takht: Discourse
With Modernity
13 August, 2008
The challenge posed by
political intervention in Akal Takht affairs is a serious one and
requires the need to engage with the discourse of modernity while
deriving legitimacy from tradition. |
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Educational Adventurism in Punjab
6 August, 2008
The humid
July-August months coincide with the education season in Punjab. Though we
did not have a very hot summer, the humidity has dulled the educational... |
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Yatra: From piety to impiety
29
July, 2008
Indian roads
these days are choked with frenzied kanwarias. And images from the
state of Jammu and Kashmir feature aggressively marching
Hindu.. |
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Nuclear Deal good for which India?
23
July, 2008
The Indian
sub-continent has many Indias. The Indian face to be shown as a
bride to be is the neo-urban India. The real face of poverty, the
snake charmers... |
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Policing India through torture, fake encounters
16 July 2008
While India
shies away from a debate on death penalty and a death row prisoner
like Balwant Singh Rajoana has shamed the nation state by deciding
not only... |
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Thank Saini for the tip: Write your histories
9
July, 2008
When India's CBI
indicted blood-thirsty police officers like Sumedh Singh Saini, it
was interesting to see how newspapers in Punjab were scrambling to
get... |
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A
Nation-State At Half-Mast
2
July, 2008
Sam
Manekshaw, India's Field
Marshal and much respected soldier died last week. But Indian
leadership, even the three army chiefs, stayed away... |
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Sikh Protests: What next?
25
June, 2008
For the last one
year or more, the cultist baba from Sirsa in Haryana is having a
free-run of India, in full view of the Indian population and with
full co-operation... |
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Oh, please
console the BJP
18
June,
2008
HINDUTVA spewing
right wing Bhartiya Janta Party is very sad these days over
developments in Nepal. Its
mouthpiece on foreign affairs, Jaswant Singh... |
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Taking stock
11
June, 2008
Shame comes easy
to undemocratic rulers. Read the report on the front page about
India's pointsman for Operation Bluestar, Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar... |
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The Memories and A Memorial
4
June,
2008
Ascore and four
years ago, the Sikh community saw the face of the official Indian nation
state establishment. An establishment represented by the hegemonic... |
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The State of Limbo
28
May,
2008
When it comes to the Sikhs, the Indian
nation state wants to redefine Sikhs out of the Minority status in
Punjab so that they can be left at the mercy... |
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An
Apology, Canada and India
21
May,
2008
That Canada has a ministry for
Multiculturalism and that India has never even debated for having any says
something about the state of democracies in both... |
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Remembering the
dark May
14
May,
2008
In
the din that the rulers of Punjab have created with their ‘kabza’ mentality
of winning elections, in the violence in the aftermath of elections... |
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Democracy and Anger
7
May,
2008
When socially
conscientious filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza made the movie Albert
Pinto Ko gussa kyon aata hai in the early eighties, he was
giving expression to the building anger... |
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The Language of
Power
30
April 2008
Masters of Linguistics remember very well how when the first ever
linguistic Survey of India was taking place, an entire lobby of
anti-Punjabi...
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Booking the truth
23 April 2008
Imagine
a 16-and-a-half-year old bride who marries a Sikh youth committed to
a cause, a cause that made many pick up the gun and die by the edge
of the sword... |
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True Lies
16
April 2008
Worldwide, the
Khalsa Panth celebrated Vaisakhi this week, and vowed to re-connect
to the spirit of teachings of Guru Granth Sahib... |
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Brahamanical society, Advani’s book and the Sikhs
9
April
2008
Lal Krishan
Advani is known in India as the man who lead the Rath Yatra,
communalising Indian politics like never before in the post 1947
phase... |
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Human Rights Debate,
Indian Nation State and Vaisakhi
2
April
2008
In a matrix of
utter hopelessness and despair, and a politics of de-politicising
the youth and the rising middle class, any effort that endeavours to
re-focus... |
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Will new Police University teach Bhai Kaunke
case?
26
March 2008
What kind of
training does Punjab Police provide to its trainees? Ask this
question to anyone on the streets of Punjab and you would get a
prompt reply... |
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Rogue dera head is a ticking human
bomb, not our girls
19
March 2008
Sardar Parkash
Singh Badal is very keen to save the life of Sarabjit Singh, and we
welcome his heartfelt concern. We also welcome Sardar Badal... |
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Aadmi Hai ke Self Goal!
12
March 2008
Five of the
players who were part of the 1968 Hockey Olympics hailed from
Sansarpur, the karambhoomi of a large number of joysticks men... |
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Change and India
5
March 2008
Meet
the world's rising economic power, India. A country torn between
groups that have growth rate of under two percent and over nine
percent... |
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Unethical start to Adarsh Schools
launch
27
February 2008
The monetization
of education in Punjab has begun. Barring a few stray voices,
no political party nor social or academic group or association is
talking... |
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Kosovo -- Proving
the invincibility of the will of a free people
20 February 2008
As United States and many other western nations prepared to welcome
Kosovo into the fold of independent nations, it is time for the Sikh
community... |
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Trouble in Maharashtra and the Sikhs
13 February 2008
The outbursts of Raj
Thackeray, head of a Shiv Sena splinter group, the Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena (MNS), have kept the Indian politicians... |
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Issues linger, Jathedars delay
6 February 2008
The much-hyped meeting of the Jathedars at Akal Takht Sahib was
postponed at the last minute on Tuesday to an unscheduled date... |
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Inner Party Democracy And Sikhs
30 January 2008
The New York based Freedom House, a watchdog organization for
democracy, has said in its latest annual survey that only 90
countries among... |
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‘N’ number of
agendas won’t help
23 January 2008
The Sikh
community is currently passing through troubled times, and the
crisis is not uni-layered. It is a multi-layered one. While on the
one hand... |
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Irrelevance as an art form
16 January 2008
Punjab
held a conclave of the Non-Resident Punjabis from all over the
world. No one invited any of the vice chancellors, or head of any
research institution. |
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Showcasing the good work
9 January 2008
In the masthead market of the United States, South Asian
community newspapers scream for attention.... |
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Reflect On the
Reflected Image
2
January, 2008
2007 hasn’t been
a great year for the globe. It has been deadliest in Iraq in recent
history. Various people’s movements fighting against oppression
and... |
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Home Truths From Prime Minister
26 December
2007
As 2007 ends, candidness seems to have jolted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh into saying some home truths. Even at this stage, truth does not.. |
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Maladies of Interpreting Minorities
19 December, 2007
The latest Punjab and Haryana High Court
judgment is an instance of not only apathetic judicial reality of India but
also of the utter apathy of the Sikh organizations, particularly the
ruling... |
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Beware! Advani makes his move; the color is deep
saffron
12 December, 2007
With the continuous rise of Hindutva
and saffron agenda within the BJP, and the utter and deliberate failure of
the Congress.... |
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Of A Party, A Portrait & Else
5 December, 2007
Quickly browsing through the hundreds of
emails that the WSN receives every week, it is surprising how well
versed the Diaspora Sikhs remain about happenings back home... |
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Let the Word beat the Hate
28 November 2007
There is alarm at the continuing backlash of
hate crimes against Sikh-Americans and other minority communities.
The attack... |
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Sangat Ji, Now Pardhan Sahib will elect Pardhan Sahib!
Waheguru!
21
November, 2007
All it takes is one anonymous letter. Take a
piece of paper, scribble some rubbish on it and hang a dirty tale, and you
can have ...... |
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Banning The Granth Law and the Absence of Logic
14
November, 2007
The Punjab Government has finally
imposed a ban on anyone other than the SGPC printing and selling the birs of
Sri Guru Granth Sahib. The ban has unclear legal... |
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This Diwali, use the Prism to see the Light!
7 November, 2007
By the time this edition will be in your hands, much of India will
be in a festive mood. The Diwali festival is also widely celebrated
by the Sikhs too, and some of course.... |
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Pogroms only kill humans, we must not kill our soul
31 October,
2007
Never are editorial writers at pains for words on any subject to
write on, but this time at the World Sikh News, we were at a loss about what
to say... |
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Times! They are
a’challengin’
24 October, 2007
Any macro look at the state of affairs within the Sikh community and
outside it but related to it will underline in one instant how ill equipped
the community is at the moment to... |
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RAW and the war
against terror
17 October, 2007
It
hurts when raw nerves are touched. It hurts much more when RAW's
nerves are touched. An officer of the RAW, who has now applied for asylum in
the United States, has proved... |
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Cricket, and a community goes for a
six!
10 October, 2007
The Sikhs know
what it means. In the post 9/11 phase, they went through a series of
attacks and suddenly found that people in America, Europe and many
other places had no idea... |
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Pardhan Ji, eminently forgotten!
26 September, 2007
In the sleepy
village called 'Tohra', on September 24, a small gathering had
gotten together to remember a man many had said no one will forget
in a hurry. The news... |
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Terror’s big Cat in India is the
State itself
12 September 2007
“You name one officer who does not have cats. Cats are working in
every state, be it Punjab, Tripura or Mizoram. No antiterrorist
operation can be completed without cats |
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What a time to trigger an internecine war!
5 September, 2007
All the signals in Indian politics are pointing
towards a midterm poll. The UPA is busy fashioning out policies aimed
at the Muslim community... |
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Of identity battles and turf wars
29 August, 2007
Try reading the major news in this
edition of the World Sikh News in conjunction with each other, and you would
know why we ..... |
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Kis Bidh Ruli Patshahi: Quest for Glory of the Khalsa
22 August, 2007
We are fortunate that we have been bestowed sovereignty by our
Gurus. Sikhs are a sui-generis people. In a short span.... |
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Rabid nationalism rules as India distances minorities
15 August, 2007
As India's rabid nationalism
brand of patriotism is unfurled and unleashed on an unsuspecting public and
thought proccesses.... |
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Gurdwara Act: The Ghosts of Secularization Return
8 August, 2007
The WSN this week has opened a debate on the All
India Gurdwara Act draft bill1999. In fact, the reason to do so was
provided.... |
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Serving the ends of justice
1 August, 2007
This week, Punjab witnessed how the justice dispensing system
works in real life.Not one right thinking person in India, no matter.... |
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A cremation and a burial: Democracy v/s Dictatorship
18 July, 2007
In their rush to scribble newspaper articles
arguing a line that the Indian state would love to hear, many journalists
have succumbed..... |
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Ratia: Being shrewed or being Lilliputian?
11 July, 2007
That some reservations, and perhaps even anger,
could be the prevalent feeling that the decision of the Akal Takht to call
off the proposed... |
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Recognition comes in ways different, Jathedar Makkar!
4 July 2007
Strange are the ways of the Shiromani Gurdwara
Prabandhak Committee, the one body the Sikhs had which, even if not having
its jurisdiction over all of India... |
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Jathedar Sahiban, we shouldn’t have been guessing
27 June 2007
While it is to be appreciated that the Jathedars
of the Sikh Takhts correctly understood the sentiments of the Sikh
community and rejected... |
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Warrants and Sorry Game of the Dera of Semantics
20 June, 2007
Talk is in the air once again of a new
muaafinama from the dera. When the entire political establishment in Punjab
was busy... |
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Remembering 1984!
6 June, 2007
Akali Dal president and Chief Minister (We are
sure he will like the order in reverse) Parkash Singh Badal makes no
reference to the Operation Bluestar, is not seen at the Darbar Sahib in
Amritsar... |
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Your lacunae is showing, Sir!
30 May,2007
Mischief seems to be the leitmotif of the Sirsa
Dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim. For a man who is facing cases of murder and
systematic... |
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Pakistan in Sacha Sauda?
23 May,2007
Within hours of the Dera Sacha Sauda cult head
Ram Rahim indulging in an activity nefarious in its very inception, the
whispers in the press room in Chandigarh... |
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Sikhs and the UP elections
16 May, 2007
Uttar Pradesh is the virtual centre of Indian
politics and also one of the strongholds in India of a deeply entrenched
caste ... |
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RSS cooks a trouble, Badal does khichrri
9 May, 2007
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has again
stirred up a hornet’s nest with its comments on Sikhism not .... |
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A torn society and Vaisakhi lessons
18 April 2007
At a time when India is torn by the debate on
reservation and the executive power, including and led by, the Prime
Minister's Office is in near-conflict... |
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Vaisakhi: A time to celebrate, and ruminate
11 April,
2007
As editors of the World Sikh News, we do track
the developments in the domain among our peer group websites, newspapers,
journals etc. And as this Vaisakhi we were tracking... |
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He was to protect Home which
burnt, PM praises him
4 April,
2007
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, India's first
Sikh premier who is often presented as a role model to Sikhs all over the
world, recently surprised.... |
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Of Turban in French Knot and Badal at Ram Navmi
28 March 2007
Questions of identity are troubling many
communities in the world, the Sikhs are foremost among them. The leading
Sikh NGO based... |
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Bhai Cheema case helps see
beneath masks
21 March, 2007
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Politicians wedded to
the concept of power-for-power's sake may.... |
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Punjab polity turns post-poll also
14 March,
2007
Strange are the ways of
politics, and stranger they are in Punjab. Days after the Assembly
elections brought in a change in the regime and the Akalis... |
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Punjab politics and ideological purity: The way
forward
7 March 2007
So much has changed in Punjab in the last couple
of weeks, and yet so little changes ever. The Amarinder Singh government has
been... |
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Mughal Sarais in the Punjab and Haryana
28 February 2007
The great distance between the commercial
centres and the constant threats of marauders necessitated some secure sites
for caravans and other travellers. Hence the sarais.... |
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The Burning Train singes punjabis The most
21 February 2007
For the world at large, it is an act of
terrorism.For the Indian establishment,it is a move sabotaga peace processit
is trying to conclude with.... |
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Of ballot wars, exhumed graves and legacy
denials
7 February,
2007
Irony is often the
sub text of politics, and the politicians who disown historical legacies and
refuse to engage with seeming contradictions eventually become... |
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Post-ballotting, it is time to take stock
14 February 2007
Now that the balloting is over, sanity will
hopefully return to Punjab which has spent several weeks listening to
inanities posing as issues, falsehoods.... |
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Republic Day parade: What really is on display?
31 January
2007
WHEN we discuss a flawless display of
marching army columns who can deny the Nazis were brilliant. But their view
of German culture... |
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Politics is beautiful
business, get interested
24 Jan 2007
One of the most ubiquitous statements one reads
in the media all the time is that politics is dirty business. Let us start
by taking... |
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Politics is serious business,
don’t leave it to politics
10 January, 2007
Punjab is racing towards elections, and
thanks to the near total absence of reasoned debate, issues are not a
problem. As ticket distribution.... |
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Unspeakable Is Also A Part Of Us, Accept It
3 January 2007
How
do you speak about the unspeakable?
The horror, the revulsion outpouring on reports of serial rapes and murders
of children in Noida is bringing... |
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2007 is here! Where’s the party?
27
December, 2006
As
Punjab rings in the new year with poll beats gettingever louder, one thing
is becoming increasingly clear. Entire Congress.... |
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Next to be Raped - Our women
20 dec,2006
Heard
the latest news? The law, the judicial system, the justice dispensing
machinery, the investigation infrastructure were all raped in full
public... |
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Yes they are Sikhs
13 December,
2006
India is a vast country and there are certain
groups and communities so small in size that their presence and
existence.... |
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Murderer in govt, killer in Parliament
6 Dec,2006
In
the world’s largest democracy, a Union Cabinet Minister is found a murderer.
A top TV anchor, popular youth icon and Member of Parliament... |
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Is this the India you wanted?
29 November, 2006
Most
conclaves these days talk of India as the next economic and military
superpower, booming sensex, 10% growth rate and a single minded pursuit of a
strategic... |
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Mini Parliament, but with all the ills of Parliament
29 November, 2006
Every Sikh takes pride in saying that the
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is the ‘Sikh parliament... |
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Socialist country, capitalist policy, fedual
state
22 November 2006
In a country called India, which is legally a
socialist republic but is being run along publicly announced capitalist
policies called currently... |
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Bhai Ram Singh An Architect Forgotten
15 November, 2006
Ask anyone in Punjab about Bhai Ram Singh and
you would invite blank stares, even in Amritsar, where there should be..... |
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Democrats are here, but so is the N-deal
8 November 2006
Conventional
wisdom is often much different from reality. It is not ipso facto that the
Democratic showing in the US Congressional elections... |
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Return to the word, the swords can wait
1 November, 2006
To dismiss Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann’s
and his supporters’ clash with the armed men of the SGPC’s task
force as a ... |
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Happy Punjab Day, But…
25 October 2006
On November 1 this year, the Government of
Punjab will issue the ritualistic statement congratulating all Punjabis on
the state formation day... |
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A life in disguise
25 October 2006
On a sunny afternoon in Kapurthala town of east
Punjab, in the famous ‘Moroccan’ mosque, a man looking every inch a
Sikh... |
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Political road show of boorishness
18 October, 2006
For more than four-and-a-half years, Punjab's
political scene has witnessed a continuous slide down of political idiom. At
a time when the rest of the world is ... |
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Hang in there, to understand
4 October 2006
Look carefully. No, not
very carefully though. You won’t need to do that. Watch who is on which side
of the noose as India ties itself... |
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Fear the
death of politics
27 September, 2006
Politically dormant seasons are the proverbial silly seasons of politics.
One never knows which of the simmering elements.... |
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A picture post card from Punjab
6 September
2006
At a time when the world is
grappling with some of the most complex problems and aware humans in the
developed and developing world debating... |
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