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Look Elsewhere Too
24
February 2010
India seems to
be hitting a dead end in the investigations into the German bakery
blast and there is a clear possibility that the Manmohan Singh
government may... |
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The Black & White of Black List
17
February 2010
At a time when New Delhi is refusing to budge on the issue of Black
List of Sikhs, thus forcing hundreds of innocent Sikh youth to
remain abroad, separated from their... |
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India
Honors Pygmies, Bad Pygmies
10
February 2010
India is giving
an out and out criminal and killer of innocent Kashmiris one of its
most prestigious award. One prestigious award is going to Sant Singh
Chatwal... |
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Is this the
final split?
3
February 2010
So, is this the
final point of No Return? Have the Ravidassias finally moved out of
the folds of Sikhism? They were in any case loosely held inside the
folds. Now they have said they are a separate religion. They... |
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Death and Taxis
27January 2010
Rabab researcher and Australian convert to Sikhism, Chris Mooney
Singh, has discovered the poet in him. He will be in India this week
at the invitation of the National... |
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Rotten Politics
of Farm Fresh Chargesheets
20
January 2010
Justice Nanawati had recommended three cases against Sajjan
Kumar. The CBI has filed fresh chargesheets in two of them. Do
you know what happened in the third... |
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Raw exposed
13
January 2010
Government wants to ensure your security, so every single one of
your rights will be appropriated and violated by the government.
Nation States are becoming gross... |
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‘Sikh Nation has One Granth, One Panth and One Rehat Maryada’
6
January 2010
Los Angeles: Seventy representatives of the 12 Metropolitan
Gurudwaras and Sikh institutions participated in the meeting called
by the Coalition over the current... |
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When Badal
picks up a pen
30
December 2009
Never has Parkash Singh Badal taken up a pen to write a single
sentence about Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Or about
Operation Bluestar, or the thousands killed... |
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The House of Badals
16
December 2009
Regional party satraps in India are becoming some kind of feudal
political landlords who first succeed in playing up regional
aspirations and then gradually get a vice like... |
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Reading into 1984 and Liberhan Report
9
December 2009
There will never
be a closure to the pogrom of the Sikhs in 1984. There will never be
a closure to the black event that was the Babri Masjid demolition.
It has taken 25... |
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Nagaland Assembly
shows the way
2
December 2009
For someone like
Prakash Singh Badal, here is a lesson in how to engage with the
agitation and struggle waged by thousands of Sikhs for the
self-respect of the... |
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VFF urges US
President to help India grow sane
25
November 2009
Even as pushed to the Indian Government was forced to table in
Parliament the report of the Liberhan Commission into demolition of
the historic Babri Masjid in 1992, after sensational... |
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Read
Right
18
November 2009
Who is reading in Punjab? And who is publishing? The author
brings to the fore the crisis in the world of Punjabi
publishing... |
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The Gorilla in the Bedroom
11
November 2009
Listen to
India’s complaints and you will be surprised how justified they all
sound. The country is making huge progress and its policies ensured
that it escaped the... |
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Defining Sikh
Activism
4
November 2009
In his response to
“(Re)Defining Sikh Activism,” one of
Professor IJ Singh’s major objections is that because he did
not explicitly state that the work of theoretically... |
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The Music Maker
28
October 2009
One of the finest music directors of Indian film industry S.
Mohinder, now in his eighties lives in the state of Virginia on the
outskirts of Washington D.C. He started as.... |
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A Climb To The Top, In
Life
21
October 2009
Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia has climbed Mount Everest. He was injured
in the 1965 Indo-Pak war and went on to open the Indian Spinal
Injuries Centre in Delhi. These are.... |
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Gurbani and Man
14
October 2009
“Gurbani”, the works of Gurus and Saints in Adi-Granth, is the
essence of Sikhism. Cruelty on one side and cowardice on the other
in the second half of fifteenth... |
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Democracy’s Coffin
7
October 2009
In 1988, Ram Jethmalani told five judges of the Supreme Court:
“Democracy lies in the coffin. Government wants you to do a dirty
deed to slam shut the coffin’s lid.. |
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Bathinda in for more pollution
30
September 2009
After
facing an environmental threat from the two thermal plants, the
Bathinda area will have to cope with the adverse effects of the
proposed oil refinery being set up by... |
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The Doon School Boy
23
September 2009
Terrorist! Murderer!! Killer!!! Arunab Goswami of Times Now TV
channel was running out of abuses. The comfort of a TV studio should
have given him a pause to think... |
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Fake
Encounter Apologists
16
September 2009
What will you call this? Candidspeak or expose by default? And in
which other country will hundreds of thousands, nay, millions of the
newspaper readers remain lulled... |
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In
The Larger Panthic Interests
9
September 2009
What is your
party doing in Punjab these days? Pursuing the politics of
terror, your government has started victimizing those who oppose
you. The false implication of... |
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SGPC Elections –Who calls the shots?
2
September 2009
When the provisions of the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925, were being
framed, it was suggested that the elections to the body being formed
for the management of the... |
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Youth At The Core
26
August 2009
In times of crisis when a brave Quom faces many challenges and also
simultaneously watches those entrusted with taking care of the
interests of the community... |
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Hair-Raising Questions
19
August 2009
Do you want
to look similar or different? Do you struggle to maintain your
identity? Are your peers bothering you? Is hair a part of the being
of an individual? Is keeping... |
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The Shoe Writes
Back
12
August 2009
Unable to withstand a cursory reply unworthy of the Indian home
minister –P. Chidambram, to his query relating to acquittal of
perpetrators of the November 1984... |
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Never forget victims of human
atrocities
5
August 2009
Resist those who try to change the subject or turn our common
effort to curb the worst atrocities in human history into a struggle
over ideology, geography or economics... |
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Why are the 84 guilty still free?
22
July 2009
The shoe-hurler Jarnail Singh shares his thoughts with the civil
world which is a little too worried more about his shoe-hurling onto
the Home Minister of India Mr. P... |
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Akalis & the BJP
15
July 2009
Large
sections of the Sikh community in Punjab and even larger ones among
the Diaspora have been wondering for many years now about how an
alliance between the... |
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Putting Sikhs to the ‘cruel
choice’
8
July 2009
Unless
Army officials act quickly, Capt. Kamaljit Singh Kalsi and 2nd Lt.
Tejdeep Singh Rattan will soon be compelled to choose between
obedience to God and service... |
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The Ultima
Ratio
1
July 2009
The World
Sikh News deeply mourns the death of Ram Narayan Kumar, a
friend of the Sikh community and of all those who believed in human
beings' fundamental... |
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Remembering the Master
24
June 2009
As India reaps the fruits of Independence, flexes its muscles as a
superpower vis-à-vis the Pakistan which is now embroiled in massive
problems and increasingly... |
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Ravi
Dasis & Today’s Punjab
17
June 2009
In a well worked
out and analytical article, Surinder S Jodhka of Jawaharlal Nehru
University has argued that the interpretation of the recent violence
in Punjab as "yet... |
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Sending a Message, Loud & Clear
10
June 2009
A historic gathering of an estimated 15,000 Sikhs held a
demonstration and rally in central London on Sunday, June 7, and demanded
that the UN establish, 25 years... |
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Hair today,
where tomorrow?
3
June 2009
The Punjab and Haryana High Court
judgment has surely come as a relief, but the upcoming dangers
of another move initiated by India’s brahamanical rulers must
be... |
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The Doctor is Out
27
May 2009
741
days in jail that Dr Binayak Sen spent could have been a blot on the
face of an India that was churlishly jumping about, waving its
ink-stained fingersto denote itself... |
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He Stoops to Conquer
20 May 2009
The
projected Prime Ministerial candidates in 15th Lok Sabha
elections tried to convince voters that
India needed a strong prime minister. BJP’s Lal Krishan
Advani... |
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Canadian
Solidarity with Tamils
13
May 2009
Academics prefer to remain either muter
witnesses to the unfolding of contemporary events or take sides
with the State. During the struggle in Punjab...
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Pangs of Conscience
5
May 2009
Strange are the
ways of politics since it makes even the fairly educated so blind to
not just the reality but great mirth too! Dera Sirsa deliberated for
days and days... |
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A Darkness Unforgotten
29
April 2009
The denial
of party election tickets to Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan
Kumar is little recompense to the over 3,000 Sikhs... |
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Not an issue
22
April 2009
One
of the most bandied about statements you would read in the Indian
media and even in the community newspapers in the United States and
elsewhere reporting... |
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The Art of Not Writing
15
April 2009
I
was in Bhairamgarh to cover a Salwa Judum rally. Bhairamgarh is a
small town in the Bijapur district of southern Chhattisgarh where
the State is engaged in a bloody... |
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Gandhi Family Traditions
8 April 2009
For the last few
days I have read various news articles about Varun Gandhi's
political statement. He just tried to be popular Hindu political
leader of BJP... |
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Ending
Illiteracy among Sikhs
1 April 2009
The
literacy percentage of Sikhs across India as per Census 2001 was 60.55
percent. The percentage of Jains was 84.1%... |
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Caution! Hatred juggernaut is headed South
18 March 2009
As India races towards elections, many wonder at the rise of a new
phenomena that was so far largely seen as a north Indian menace. The
monster... |
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Governance & Anandpur Sahib Resolution
11 March 2009
There was a time
when Parkash Singh Badal mentioned Anandpur Sahib Resolution with
every breath. Those who have tracked Punjab's politics over the
years... |
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Beware! There is an editor lurking ahead
4
March 2009
At a time when winds of change are blowing through the world and
even the United States of America is adopting a tone more
understanding, it is disappointing to see... |
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The Indian Diplomat
25
February 2009
June 5,
1984. News of the attack on the Holiest of Holies of Sikhdom - the Darbar
Sahib of Amritsar, popularly known as the Golden Temple - stunned... |
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From here, where?
18
February 2009
By
all accounts emerging in
India, Pakistan
seems to have been checkmated on the Mumbai terror attacks and New Delhi is
crying victory after Islamabad said some... |
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No Crime
and All Punishment
11 February
2009
Two pictures recently appeared in Indian media. Both underlining a
conflict that India is grappling with. Each of the two represents a
different side of the coin... |
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Of Tigers and Riders
4
February 2009
People's
movements across the globe watched the set backs that the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) received in recent weeks, and much like
the jungle tigers... |
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Safeguarding
Punjab
28 January 2009
The
alarming risk of war between
India
and Pakistan is once again the subject of grave international
concern. Many responsible world leaders have recently called... |
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Change and Hope
21 January 2009
Horrors from the past invariably come back to haunt human beings in
any nation-state, and Americans are no different... |
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Death Of An Agenda
14 January 2009
Six Indian
states went to polls. Rajasthan saw a shift in fortunes from BJP to
Congress, Delhi set a new
record with Shiela Dixit ... |
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Selling one’s Child
7 January 2009
Leading
human rights activist and author presents a thought provoking, harsh Indian
reality in a telling manner. |
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Living in Lawless Times
24 December
2008
It was nice to
meet you at a recent seminar where Justice Bains was honoured.
I have had an interesting association with your late father... |
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Sehajdhari and Parlok! Har Har Mahadev
17 December
2008
In a complete
expose, the World Sikh News brought out last week the sinister
attempt by the powers-that-be in the SGPC to open floodgates... |
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Will the NHRC stand up
10 December
2008
Subsequent to the painstaking research and report of human rights
activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, who disappeared involuntarily, the
Supreme Court of India directed the National... |
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Mumbai madness and Media mockery
3 December
2008
Watching the
violent attacks courtesy the large number of amateurish Indian
channels was shocking and horrifying. The siege of the Taj Mahal
Hotel ... |
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Non-Performing Actors
26 November
2008
You must be
wondering why the elections come so soon. Actually they come after
five years, but the five years come too soon as there is hardly any
sea-change... |
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Caricature Elections
19 November
2008
In an Open Letter to the chairperson of Hurriyat Conference,
the author upholds the right of the Kashmiri people not to vote and
upholds their right to self-determination. |
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A New Dawn with
Obama
12 November
2008
On November 4, 2008, Americans didn’t have to wait long for results
of the presidential election. The voting was still current in some
parts when... |
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From Sovereignty to a Pariah state
5 November
2008
Even though Punjab has come full circle as far as peace is
concerned, Punjab Day celebrations are hardly a day of joy for the
people of Punjab... |
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Kali Vein to
Godavri
29
October 2008
Since
the compilation of the Guru Granth in 1604 Sikhs bowed before it,
chanted and disseminated its knowledge. What was the significance of
its.. |
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Why should Sikhs endorse Obama
22 October 2008
November
4 is the D day for Senator Barack Obama. It is the same for his
opponent John McCain. It is also the day of reckoning of all those who
stand... |
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US Meltdown The impact on Punjab
15 October 2008
At
a time when the US economy is going into a tail spin and the effects
of the new depression are visible across the globe, Punjab too is gradually... |
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Punjab, Subsidies and the Wall St Wisdom
8 October 2008
You don't need a crash course in high finance and economics to
understand the fight between pro and anti-subsidy lobbies in Punjab.
The problem is much... |
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Human Rights First
1 October 2008
With growing incidents of violence, the din for new laws and
stringent tactics is touted as a solution. In the wake of a spate of
these |
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Stereotyping Terror: India’s National Shame
24 September 2008
Terrorism
and communalism are two things happening in India. The bomb
blasts in Delhi, and the earlier ones in Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Bangalore
are terrorism... |
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Jab Lag
Khalsa Rahe Niara
17 September 2008
It is a nice
feeling to write to another person who shares your name. It is indeed
satisfying to write to someone who has respected the word of his Guru... |
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Walk the Rights
Talk
3 September 2008
Ms.
Navanethem Pillay, a South-African born Indian origin jurist of
Tamil descent took over as the fifth UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
on 1 September for a period of four years...
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Fighting For Monica
27 August, 2008
Last week, I
wrote an Open letter to Indian Sports Minister, Dr. Manohar Singh
Gill, which evoked substantial emotional and studied response from
WSN readers in Manipur... |
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Doping Indian Sports
20 August, 2008
Peeved at the exclusion of Indian weightlifter Monika Devi from the Beijing
Olympic Games, Jagmohan Singh writes an Open Letter to Sports
minister, Dr. Manohar Singh Gill... |
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Akal Takht:
Sovereignty of Demagogues and Akal Takht
13 August, 2008
The way Jathedar
Joginder Singh Vedanti was packed off raises serious questions about
the functioning of the Parliament of Sikhs. Supreme sacrifices of
Sikhs... |
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Sab Da Mit-Ishmeet:
A personal tribute
29
July, 2008
I wish you could read this letter. When I wrote my first
letter to you, my paper World Sikh News was flooded with
responses from far and wide appreciating... |
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Hindutva
Terror In Nanded
16 July 2008
Nanded, in
Maharashtra,
is a town with a significant population of different faiths - Hindu,
Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist. Nanded could well have become a new
metaphor... |
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India plays cricket, and other dirty
games too
2
July, 2008
Legendary
broadcaster John Arlott had once said sport reflected its society.
It truly does. So as he 1983 Indian cricket team celebrates the
silver jubilee... |
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Blame The Middle Class
25
June, 2008
Now that the dust has settled over the
Gujarat elections, we can afford to defy the pundits and admit that,
even if Narendra Modi had lost the last elections... |
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24 x 7: Breaking News, Lies and No
Shame
18
June,
2008
One of the
traditions that the media in India has completely remained
blissfully unaware of, or perhaps very deliberately aloof from, is
the tradition of ‘Media... |
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Foreign Hand
11
June, 2008
During the days
of Sikh aspirational struggle in Punjab, the
Indian official nation state had one stock answer aimed at negating
the voice of the muffled... |
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The Political Apology
4
June,
2008
Canadian
Government has
apologized for Komagata Maru. In 1998, the
Vatican issued a 14-page report that apologized for the Catholic
Church’s silence... |
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Embers Afire
28
May,
2008
Consider
the message it would send to any new Quebecker if a Sikh member of
the RCMP stationed in
Rimouski was free to wear a turban - a right upheld... |
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Minority Report: Calculating Damage In Supreme Court
21
May,
2008
ON THE face of
it, it is a rather innocent development, and the latest has perhaps been
making the Sikhs a little bit happy. In reality, it is a development most... |
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Internecine warfare turns ugly leaf in action
against Prof Darshan Singh
14
May,
2008
Amritsar:
Internecine wars within the Sikh community are a continuing sad
story, and the latest chapter... |
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Langar: mealtime round the clock
Andrew
Zimmern
The host ‘Bizzare Foods’ on the Travel Channel, recently partook of
Langar at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib and this is what he says. |
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Sohna Munda
Manpreet Singh
30
April 2008
Jo Bole So Nihal'
could not sustain on the silver screen as it was conceived in sin. It
was meant to use the Sikh greeting and slogan and cash... |
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‘Talk of equality meaningless without economic freedom’
23 April 2008
STANFORD: "The
agonizing circumstances and conditions that a common man has to face
merely to scrape enough for meting his daily expenses and minimal.. |
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Sarnaji, forget amendment, try mending ways
16
April 2008
What does this amendment bring for the Sikhs is what should be
the talking point. There is no doubt that with this move, there
would be comparatively... |
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Release political prisoners without delay
9
April
2008
Release of Political prisoners and their rights:
The Preparatory Committee towards forming the Committee for the Release of
Political Prisoner... |
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Silencing Smoking Guns
26
March 2008
Hectic lobbying by anti-tobacco groups over the last five years
finally bore fruit when the Indian cabinet accepted to place
pictorial warnings on tobacco... |
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Let’s peep inside
19
March 2008Maulana
Nasiruddin, Sheela Didi, Nanak Baghel, Suraj Tekam, Nirmal
Brahmachari, Dr. Binayak Sen, Lachit Bordoloi, Mohammad Afzal, Valan... |
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The Screamers and The Black List
12
March 2008
Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh did not blink once when he said India will
continue to maintain black lists of Sikhs who have gone abroad to escape
state terrorism... |
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Bringing Them Home
20 February 2008
The
Open Letter is an appreciation to the apology of the Australian
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the original Australians. |
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Sonrise
6 February 2008
In the early
hours of a cloudy winter day, one is not sure whether the sun will
rise. Every one takes different kinds of precaution. On 31
January... |
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The French and the
Sikh approach to non-sectarianism
30 January 2008
Primary difficulty in understanding the Sikh faith has been the
attempt of scholars to interpret it in the context of the prevalent
notions about spiritualism... |
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The Red Money
23 January 2008
The release of
the draft resolution of the Communist Party (Marxist) on 20th
January in New Delhi provides me the opportunity to write to you about... |
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This Lohri, Swear On Your Daughter
16 January 2008
Today, I will tell you a tale. You know, story
telling is an art. Earlier, our mothers and grandmothers used to tell us
stories... |
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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. |
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Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils in Sri Lanka
26 December,
2007
Tamils are the
original inhabitants of Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka. This is the story of
the Tamil people in.... |
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The U.N. vote on the death penalty
26 December, 2007
This week, when it called for a world-wide moratorium on the application of
the death penalty, the United Nations General Assembly took a significant... |
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The Noose is Hung in New Jersey
19 December, 2007
I commend you for
one of the major decisions in recent times likely to impact delivery of
justice not only in USA, but the world. Even in the... |
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AFSPA,1958 Weapon of terror
12 December, 2007
I write to share with
you the grief of the demise of your 32-year old sister, Thanzam Manorama,
who was..... |
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Remembering NRI’s in Punjab
5 December, 2007
The Punjab Government led by Parkash
Singh Badal is planning a major NRI jamboorie in January 2008. The state,
which has turned suddenly very media conscious... |
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The party's over
21 November, 2007
TILL DEATH I would remain guilty to my
conscience if I keep mum about the happenings of the last two weeks in West
Bengal over Nandigram. One gets torn by... |
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Dumping down minorities
24 October, 2007
Of
late there has been much discussion in the media and political
circles about how precisely to define religious minorities in the
Indian context. The Hindutva... |
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S. Darshan Singh Pheruman: What he really died for
17 October, 2007
These words of
homage for the Irish patriots may be applied with equal justice to
the long string of Punjabi martyrs before and since Partition. There
is something in the very chemistry... |
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How much does it take the Sikhs to secure justice in a blatant case?
10 October, 2007
CALIFORNIA:
Sardar Jaswant Singh Khalra was kidnapped bythe Punjab
police goondas in 1995. The WSN presents below a short summary of
what various Sikh organisations... |
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Booking the RAW truth
3 October, 2007
Nearly 20 years ago, the then RAW chief A.K. Verma had asked his
officers publicly to come out of their mental cocoon by reading
books on different subjects... |
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Jagdeesh Singh does a Wiesenthall
26 September
2007
I remember that
some years ago, as part of your campaign for Justice for Surjit Kaur
-your sister, who was murdered in Panjab, you, Simranjit Singh Mann
and me had... |
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Turbans and the Garda
12 September, 2007
You have
rejected an Irish born Sikh of immigrant parents the right to
practice his religion and be part of Ireland's national police
force. Mr. Minister you have also said that... |
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When Jews Wore Turbans
5 September, 2007
It would seem that most Canadian Jews were
pleased with the Supreme Court of Canada decision, a few years ago,
upholding ... |
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A Cry in the wilderness
29 August, 2007
As I beseech you on this crucial juncture regarding the performance of our
party and the larger goals that both.... |
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Derawad and Sikhs
22 August, 2007
The problem of the Sikhs and Sikh religion is
not limited to the derawad, but Sikhs are also being converted to .... |
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Speak, Memory
15 August, 2007
The area of Pothohaar, i.e.
Rawalpindi area of the now Pakistan, was the centre of Sikhi in those days.
Bhai Sahib Randhir.... |
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Derawad and Sikhs
15 August, 2007
Some important deras-sects,
just as, Namdharis, Nirankaries and Radhasawamis originated in the 19th
century and flourished.... |
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Arunachal as South Tibet and
Dalai Lama as ruler
8 August, 2007
Mr. Guruswami states that in 1913 the Tibetans
declared independence of China. That same year at the Simla Conference
they.... |
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The Dera and the Indian State
1 August, 2007
As
the hour of CBI charge-sheet was approaching, Sauda Dera’s
activities too doubled up. A so-called open letter to Guru Gobind
Singh was released to the media, its contents... |
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India Wins Freedom, and some adulteration too!
18 July, 2007
At a time when India is celebrating 60 years of
Independence, and a great deal of literature has further burdened the
library... |
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The Eighth sister
fighting for the rights of the Seven sisters
11 July, 2007
Nischay kar apni jeet karo….ensure
your victory through the sheer power of your truthful determination. This
exhortation by the tenth... |
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Yes, Abortion is Murder but why stop funding Amnesty
International?
20 June, 2007
As a justice
and peace-loving person I was disturbed to read the news story that the on
behalf of the Vatican, you have asked Catholics... |
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Sectarian Challenge to sikh unity:The Dalit Question
20 June, 2007
Would Akali Dal and Akal Takht devote their
attention and accord equal status to the Dalits in society? ... |
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Smoke-free Chandigarh. And Punjab?
13 June 2007
I could not greet you otherwise, because you are
a self-proclaimed Panjabi-Sikh-baiter. You claim to have deep Indian roots,
about... |
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Save your Words, Mr PM
6 June, 2007
Nine, fight corruption at all levels. The cancer
of corruption is eating into the vitals of our body politic. For every
recipient of a bribe there is a benefactor and a beneficiary... |
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Continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi: Failure of
International diplomacy
6 June, 2007
I write this letter in admiration of your
courage, determination and commitment to uphold the letter and spirit of
democracy in Burma. I write with the hope... |
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Sikhs, Lies and Channeltapes
30 May,2007
Even if you consider me too religious, please
accept my Greetings in the Name of God, the light of every soul... |
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Babu Mangoo Ram And Emancipation of the Dalits
30 May,2007
Babu
Mangoo Ram, a renouned revolutionary and founder of the Ad Dharm movement in
Punjab was born at Mugowal, a village in the district of Hoshiarpur... |
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Dangerous Trek Ahead
30 May,2007
Dera Sacha Sauda derives its spiritual legacy
from the Sikh theology. ‘Sacha Sauda’ literally alludes to Guru Nanak’s
dealing with poor... |
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RBI chucks out Sikhs from 'minority' list for priority
loans
23 May,2007
Chandigarh: Even before the Indian Parliament
passes the anti-minority bill which will change the status of Sikhs in
Punjab from a minority to majority... |
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Struggling Nationalities, East Timor And Sikhs: Open
Letter
16 May, 2007
Greetings in the Name of God, the Light of every
soul.... |
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Re-imagining Punjab on a bigger canvas
9 May, 2007
Regional and linguistic identities have often been viewed as being
territory bound. Quite like the old notion of nations, territory.... |
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An open Letter to Shiv Sena supremo Shri Bal Thackeray
9 May,
2007
Having lived in Bombay, er’ Mumbai for
the best part of my childhood and youth, I am a Mumbaikar. I
can speak.... |
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WALK TO FREEDOM: A Historic
Journey
25
April, 2007
In his debut novel, author Javed Mohammed
gives readers an electrifying and eye-opening fictional look into the
history of India and Pakistan as detailed by one family’s struggle... |
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A turning point?
18 April 2007
At the beginning of the twenty-first century,
Britain is faced with the renewed challenge of managing religious and ethnic
diversity: a challenge... |
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Happy B’day, Khalsa ji: The Spirit of Khalsa
11 April,
2007
Truly speaking, no other day or event in the
life of a Sikh carries more significance than the day of Vaisakhi, for it
was on this day in the year 1699 that the.. |
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A Letter to the UN Secretary General
28 March 2007
My parents, siblings and I took a tour of the
site and learned a lot about the mandate and mission of the organization. We
visited... |
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Punjab Polls and Dalits’ predicament
7 February,
2007
Politics in Punjab operates within the
given social boundaries. The composite religio-cultural tradition lends a
distinct flavour to the otherwise divisive politics. Caste hierarchy... |
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Crisis In Agriculture: Old world is lost, new one is
dangerous
27 December,
2006
A study conducted about the small and marginal
(very small) peasants in Punjab and other states, particularly Andhra
Pradesh.... |
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Punjab drowns in scarce water , needs new
vision
22 November 2006
The impending water crisis in Punjab has not only eclipsed its
agriculture and economy but also ruined the ecology, health, life style... |
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British sikhs lead fight on Census 2011 demands
8 November 2006
Sikhs
in the United Kingdom are currently focussing heavily on the concerns
regarding the next due Census in 2011. Main issues relate to... |
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Why do Sikhs wash dirty linen in
public?
4 October 2006
Some
time back you published a photo of Sikh leaders fighting in the Golden
Temple, with swords drawn out. It put me off. Referring... |
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I See no stranger
27 September,
2006
Post 9/11
anti-Sikh violent incidents have proved that few Westerners have even basic
information about the world’s.... |
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The Rising Tide: Authority of the Akal Takht-3
The question whether the authority of Akal Takht
is symbolized in the Jathedar or in the structure has been nagging in the
minds of scholars... |
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Letter to Pak PM by Dr. Gurmit Singh
On behalf of the Sikh
nation and about 15,000 Sikhs who attended the recent celebration of Guru
Nanak’s birthday in Nankana Sahib... |
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SGPC – Ailing as babudom
anywhere
Every Sikh takes pride in saying that the
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is the 'Sikh parliament.' The
Akali leadership... |
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