sikh philosophy

by Nick Mayo The Sikh trust intending to build a secondary school in Slough has name the proposed new home of Slough Town FC as its ideal site. The Slough Sikh Education Trust says the old Arbour Vale Schools site, in Stoke Road, is the only one that can be supported under the Government's...

he first of two open houses aimed at helping more people understand the Sikh religion is Sunday. The Sahib Singh Sabha of Michigan, on Canton Center Road south of Palmer Road, is hosting the event from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Guests can observe and take part in traditional Sikh customs...

Bangkok Sikhs help Taliban victim’s kin September 23 , 2011 Chandigarh, Jan. 18: The Sikh community of Thailand has come to the rescue of four young children whose Sikh father was beheaded by Taliban terrorists on the border of the Khyber and Orakzai agencies last February. Jaspal...

Students of the Sikh faith will be allowed to continue wearing a kirpan, the knife-like symbol of nonviolence they’re required to wear upon baptism, under terms of an agreement reached this week between Plymouth-Canton Community Schools officials and leaders of the Sikh community. More than a...

National Geographic Apologizes for Portraying Sikhs as Terrorists Forwarded by email. SALDEF Appreciative of Prompt Response, Encourages Community to Report Media Misrepresentations Washington, DC: January 27, 2011 – Last week, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund...

The federal government last week expressed solidarity with the Sikh community while attacking the "separatist" Quebec parties over the kirpan "non-issue". Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multiculturism Jason Kenney charged the incident - in which four Sikhs were barred from entering...

Madan Singh Joseph Cunningham spent many years in the Punjab and was witness to the Anglo-Sikh wars. His History of the Sikhs is a monumental work. One man who has fascinated me is Joseph Davey Cunningham( 1812-51).His ‘history of the Sikhs’ is a monumental book and deserves the highest...

Dar-es-salaam Gurdwara committee from 80 years ago. 1929 Respected forum members. We have obtained this wonderful image, from forum member Gyani Jarnail Singh ji. But it needs some narrative. So much can be learned about the Kenya Sikhs. If anyone was a member of the sangat in Kenya and...

USA: January 22, 2011. (PCP) The World Sikh Council – America Region (WSC-AR) appreciates and stands in solidarity with the efforts of Sikhs in Canada, led by the World Sikh Organization (WSO) of Canada, in refusing to enter the Quebec National Assembly on January 18, 2011 without their...

OTTAWA — The World Sikh Organization of Canada reached out to the Bloc Quebecois Thursday in an attempt to calm a brewing storm about the kirpan, a ceremonial dagger carried by religious Sikhs. "We feel that there has been lot of rhetoric thrown around and that the only way to overcome any...

NEW DELHI: Canadian MP Sukh Dhaliwal, who sponsored Sikh Genocide Petition before Canadian Parliament appealed to the Sikh community to come forward help the widows of November 1984. Distressed at the plight of widows of November 1984, MP Dhaliwal lamented that not only that justice has been...

Any momentous undertaking in Sikh life commences with a reading from the Guru Granth. In keeping with the tradition, then, I begin our celebration of the Satinder Kaur Kapany gallery with a scriptural verse: santa ke karaj ap khaloia hari kam karavanu aia ram dharati suhavi tal suhava vicu...

Chandigarh, January 18: Close on the heels of a Canadian MP of Indian origin, Sukh Dhaliwal appealing to the Indian government to recognize the anti-Sikh massacres of 1984 as `genocide’, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) a US based human rights advocacy group has decided to seek a debate in the...

By Sandip Roy, Jan 18, 2011 9:45 AM California's new attorney general acknowledged her Indian heritage by including a 10-minute Indian classical dance performance at her inauguration, but Indian-American advocates are keen to see if Kamala Harris will move on the case of a bearded Sikh man...

A group of four Sikhs scheduled to make a presentation at Quebec's national assembly Tuesday morning were denied entry to the legislature because they refused to remove their kirpans. The representatives of the World Sikh Organization were scheduled to address the legislative committee...

Dear all , Sat sri akal , I have read an article by Gurinder singh kotkapura . Link as below http://www.rozanaspokesman.com/fullpage.aspx?view=main&mview=Jan&dview=14&pview=8 I do not understand why sikh have so many doubts/questions on their own history ??? Regards Minhas

UNITED SIKHS THIS TIME FOR AFRICA Highlights: * UNITED SIKHS Directors from USA are in Africa to assess logistics to extend humanitarian aid to regions in need of assistance from the international community * Jaswinder Kaur Benawra, UNITED SIKHS Director, Kenya, continues to...

By ed hill ehill@derbytelegraph.co.uk THE world's first dedicated Sikh memorial is being planned in Derby to represent millions of Sikhs who died in six holocausts and both world wars. Planning permission is being sought to create the £1 million National Sikh Holocaust and Shaheedi Memorial in...

Are unbaptized Sikhs considered "less" Sikh in any way? If one doesn't live in the area of a gurdwara, but would like to live a Sikh lifestyle and worship as a Sikh, would it be possible to consider oneself an unbaptized Sikh? The main reason I ask is out of respect. Before I identify myself...

Supporting Sikligars Sikhs is very important as we often forget them, yet they are such an important part of Sikh community and rich history. Sikligars Sikhs were the lohars (ironsmiths/blacksmiths) who once specialized in the craft of making and polishing weapons. Once more commonly known as...