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The French Revolution: Seventeen Ninety Eight France: the streets run red with blood as frenzied crowds rush through the streets chanting: ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ in a semi-religious fervor. The guillotine sings and the stench of despair intermixes with the sanguinary wafts of hope as...

Onset: Despite his more esoteric views, the anti-imperialist revolutionary and Sikh preacher Bhai Randhir Singh (1878-1961) delineated certain substantive boundaries between Sikhs and non-Sikhs as well as Sikhi and non-Sikh ideologies to ensure the spiritual cleanliness of the Gurus’ doctrines...

Allegiance: Early European accounts of the Sikhs like those of English parliamentarian Richard Joseph Sulivan record that when asked who they owe their loyalty to, Sikh aristocrats and horsemen would solemnly answer that their allegiance was to no earthly ruler but their transcendental Maker...

Marxism is impractical without concessions irrespective of what those concessions are called.

Introduction: In a prior article, we delineated how Bhai Gurdas, the successor to Guru Nanak’s Sikh intellectual tradition, elaborates in his Kabits that the physical Guru is the personification of the divine wisdom constructed by Akal Purakh that underpins our existential reality. The Guru’s...

That's a good point. Asia has been more fanatical in its dedication to Marx than Europe. And you are right, Marx is the opiate of the apathy stricken poor who dream revolution but rarely have the gumption to incite one.

Our idiot boomer uncles in committees give them unnecessary attention and then platform them in Gurudwaras. What else can you expect from these obsolete buffoons?

Premise: For all their bitter wranglings of a generational gap, it cannot be denied that the post-partition generation of boomer thugs has grossly failed the Sikh youth owing to their inability to enhance Sikh societal values. The generation that established the precedents of depleting...

This really takes the crown as far as ridiculous comparisons are concerned. This is why etymology is necessary in comprehending the words of the Guru Granth Sahib otherwise we end up attempting to shoehorn Sikhi into obsolete theologies it has no relation to. The Vedas are four archaic texts and...

The Worthy: It is in the nature of reality that its truths are waiting to be discovered, by whoever has the ability to do so. If two different individuals independently discover something within the parameters of reality, they will lead to the same eventual truth irrespective of the...

Insight: What is Happiness? Scientifically, Happiness is a state of emotional well-being arising from positive gratification. But the caveat here is that because positivity is relative then so is Happiness. One man’s conception and experience of Happiness is exclusively different from...

In 1994 Harjot Oberoi published his 'The Construction of Religious Boundaries.' The entire book is a disingenuous attack on Sikhi, the Sikh identity and the Sri Guru Granth Sahib under the veneer of academia. It catalyzed in him shamefacedly quitting his university endowment and hightailing it...

More or less, that is the characteristic of every Gurmukh isn't it?

The way it works is that there are two central Nihang Armies which were resurrected by Akali Phoola Singh after the demise of his predecessor Naina Singh Nihang. Basically, Nawab Kapur Singh had structured the entire Panth between the Budha and Tarna Dals. Reason for this was to preserve the...

Challenge: Could it be that Guru Nanak was not the hyper-liberal we have been led to believe? That the Guru was a realist who seeded the the growth of Sikh militarism? That for two centuries after the Guru we have been miscontextualizing and misinterpreting his words? The greatest testimony...