sikhism

Professor Darshan Singh: DC Sikhs ask Akal Takhat to reconsider his excommunication By Anju Kaur Part A of a 4-part series entitled The Strategy at http://www.sikhnn.com/headlines/2645/professor-darshan-singh-dc-sikhs-ask-akal-takhat-reconsider-his-excommunication Professor Darshan...

The Army has admitted in the Supreme Court that recruitment to President's Bodyguard (PBG) is open only to Hindu Rajputs, Hindu Jats and Jat Sikhs, saying that it is done purely on "functional requirement" and there is no caste and religion bias in it. In an affidavit filed in the apex...

Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, by Patwant Singh & ***** M. Rai, http://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/932.asp London: Peter Owen/Chicago Independent Publishers Group, 2009. Pp. 312. Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio, index. $31.95 paper. ISBN...

Assessing the impact of discrimination on North American Sikhs Prabhjot Singh. (Source: Columbia University) http://americanturban.com/2013/10/01/assessing-the-impact-of-discrimination-on-north-american-sikhs/ Over the past week, I have spoken to several Sikhs who shared how personally...

Anxious over the incessant incidents of desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in various cities of Sindh in the past five months, the Sikhs of Pakistan have decided to identify the miscreants responsible for the incidents and persuade them to mend their ways or face legal action. Former...

Sikhs caught up in France's battle to stay secular By Abhik Chanda (AFP) http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gvpHOc3xQ4lvz_DpQqm-61wW4lSw?docId=f543e88e-2876-47fc-9c79-70a1a51c1137 PARIS — France's Sikh community is ramping up a campaign for the turban to be allowed in...

Akal Takht chief wants Obama to take stringent measures to check hate crimes against Sikhs http://www.indianexpress.com/news/akal-takht-chief-wants-obama-to-take-stringent-measures-to-check-hate-crimes-against-sikhs/1173438/ Navjeevan Gopal Expressing deep concern over the attack on a...

Sikhs Want Guru’s Portraits Removed from Hollywood Bar By Sunita Sohrabji http://www.indiawest.com/news/13770-sikhs-want-guru-s-portraits-removed-from-hollywood-bar.html The Maharaja Room at Pikey Café in Hollywood, Calif., currently has several portraits of Guru Gobind Singh on its...

Sikhs open temple as Hindus keep looking for base http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10687395.Sikhs_open_temple_as_Hindus_keep_looking_for_base/ OXFORD’S Sikh community had struggled for more than 40 years to find a permanent home but last year they opened the city’s first temple. The...

Local Sikhs Heading to D.C. After Navy Yard Shooting Mark Schaff Video at this link http://oakcreek.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/local-sikhs-heading-to-dc-after-navy-yard-shooting At least one temple member will join push for tougher gun laws in wake of another mass shooting...

Kabul to have 'mini city' for Afghan Sikhs August 11, 2013 by Navrajdeep Singh www.hindustantimes.com http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Patiala/Kabul-to-have-mini-city-for-Afghan-Sikhs/SP-Article1-1101068.aspx The Afghanistan government will build a 'mini city' for the...

Akaal Takhat Forms Committee to Represent US Sikhs VIPs make controversial stops during US visit By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 | 12:13 am Sikh VIPs arrive in New York for a week-long tour announcing a US committee to...

JURUPA VALLEY: Sikh open house to build understanding after vandalism BY DAVID OLSON http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20130910-jurupa-valley-sikh-open-house-to-build-understanding-after-vandalism.ece A month and a half after a Sikh temple...

SHOPIAN (Jammu & Kashmir, India), Sept 11: Miscreants pelted stones at the houses of some Sikh residents of Shopian town before being chased away by women in the locality, police said on Wednesday. Some troublemakers allegedly pelted stones at seven houses belonging to members of the Sikh...

New Documentary: Sikhs at Sandhurst By Jay-Singh Sohal http://www.sikhnugget.com/2013/09/new-documentary-sikhs-at-sandhurst.html This time last summer, my filmmaker colleague Juggy* and I walked through the corridors of Royal Military Academy, to discover the hidden history of "Sikhs at...

2 Sikhs shot dead in US utility store http://freepressjournal.in/2-sikhs-shot-dead-in-us-utility-store/ Washington : A day after an Indian author was shot dead in Afghani-stan two Indian-Americans running a grocery store in the state of Indiana have been shot dead by masked men...

For Sikhs, both life and death are intertwined by Kanwal Prakash Singh Sep. 7, 2013 Today, the Faith Forum continues its series about finding consolation and meaning in the challenges of death. In a human and temporal context, life is joyous, welcome and full of new beginning, while death...

This is my second thread here . The first one was about sexual orientation in which a few participants told me that they don't believe in reincarnation or bar bar da janam and that even SGGS talks of one life . so what do you guys believe in ? and how does it make any sense ? if not...

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh! Sikhism is the 4th largest religion in the World yet most people have no idea of the philosophy is. When asked, most people think Sikhs are Muslims, which has lead to misguided attacks upon Sikhs. The fault doesn't lie within the media or...

Wjjk Wjkf! I have read lots about "The Twin Flame" concept and understand what it means and how it works. In brief, Twin flames, also called twin souls, are literally the other half of our soul. We each have only one twin, and generally after being split the two went their separate ways...