Recent content by Harry Rakhraj

Appreciate your response but I expected something more substantial.

Revisiting the Post after a period of over 2 years I find I've grown in the meanwhile. I'm not so sure that what I wrote earlier holds true. All I'm now sure of is that the "shrawan" of the gentle baani forms a large, very large part of being a Sikh. Gur Fateh

You ask "do you disagree with me"? No, not at all. Your observations are very valid. Nobody, not even the perpetrators of these vile things, will Disagree. You then go on to ask :"How could we change this?" The Answer to your Question lies in what you have so feelingly brought out. The...

Thank you SPN, for publishing this extremely topical and thought provoking Article by Yasmin Mogahed. I wish you would bring out more such writings. It's what draws simple folk like me to SPN, in the very first place.

The time, effort and thought that has obviously gone into this impressive critique by Confused ji shows, to me at least, how seriously he treats the subject. And am indeed grateful to him for doing me the favor of reading my humble offering. This is not to say that I agree or disagree with his...

Why is it that from the moment we wake up in the morning, we start striving? We keep striving, struggling, worrying throughout the day…everyday…till we go to sleep. And then we again lie awake for any length of time because of our worries, our fears, our wants, our greed. Why can’t we simply...

I do not subscribe to any of the claims made by those supporting 'unshorn hair'. I do not disagree with the logic of skeptic.freethinker1, either. Somehow the whole thing brings to mind this famous quote: "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain...

Having unshorn hair has nothing to do with God. It's one's identity, dictated by one's very own choice. Initially it might be a part of inheritance, by virtue of birth. But ultimately it is one's own choice. It is an identity that announces to the whole wide world who and what you are, what your...

Terminal illness or the loss of essential bodily functions through disease or accident can make a person solely dependent on others, paid or otherwise. Apart from all else, the dependency robs a person of the very Dignity that he prizes above all else, even Life. In such extreme cases...

I, and my 8 siblings, attended a Catholic Mission School ( a Convent School at that!). Every school day began with a general assembly of the entire student populace, and the entire school staff, teaching and others. The assembly was headed by the Mother Superior who led with the Lord's prayer...

Re: Introducing Myself There is a truism " Religion is Spirituality gone wrong." The Muse goes on to add that it's the 'regimentation', the 'organization' that goes towards the wrong. If it is a Truism, then Sikhism, being a religion, is subject to the laws of this Truism--- no exceptions made...

That's the beauty of Universal-'ism (apologies to Sarah Palin)---the concept of blasphemy simply doesn't exist.

Narayanjot Kaur ji, Your note just enabled me to exhale again. Thanks a lot for taking me off the hook. Gurfateh Harry Rakhraj

I need to Delete this article since a much better one on same news item has already been posted by Narayanjot Kaur ji. Unfortunately, my efforts to delete through the Edit button does not help and there is NO DELETE BUTTON. I am extremely sorry for this blunder.

" Leave the Valley or Convert to Islam" This is the diktat issued by the separatists to Kashmiri Sikhs who are sons-of-the-soil Kashmiris. Sikh history is replete with similar diktats. Earlier the Kashmiri pundits, around 400,000, were similarly hounded out of their homes in the 1990s. The...