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A wise man rides in from the desert on a camel-like creature. He presents an infant - perhaps the "chosen one" who will redeem the universe, according to prophecy - to his adoptive parents. The question is inescapable: Is little Luke Skywalker a stand-in for Jesus...

PETALING JAYA: More than 20,000 people from all walks of life are expected at the first ever Vaisakhi (Sikh New Year) national open house celebration at Padang Timur here on Sunday...

T HE thunderous beat of the dhol (traditional Punjabi drum) by a group of bhangra dancers in colourful traditional attire set the stage for the Vasakhi Open House and Sikh Expo recently...

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malacca Sikh Cultural and Sports Club six-a-side hockey tournament will be held on May 1 in Malacca. The winners will receive the Sant Baba Sohan Singh Ji challenge trophy. The top three sides will get RM1,500, RM1,000 and RM500 respectively...

PENANG: Hundreds of Sikhs gathered at the Diamond Jubilee Sikh Gurdwara at Jalan Gurdwara here yesterday to celebrate Vasakhi. The three-day festival, which started on Tuesday, commemorates the birthday of the Khalsa (Pure Ones)...

KUALA LUMPUR : Bakti, the association of the wives of ministers and deputy ministers, visited 47 Sikh children here yesterday, bringing with them Vaisakhi (new year) cheer...

PETALING JAYA: This Thursday will be a special day for V. Kanesan and Manjit Kaur – that is when the married couple will get to celebrate the start of their Hindu and Sikh New Year on the same day...

March 28. Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti is telling Sikh MPs to vote against the gay-marriage bill. I don't recall him ever being elected to represent Canadians. Our MPs are elected by their constituents to represent them in Parliament. They are not elected to impose their religious beliefs on us...

AMRITSAR, India—The world's highest Sikh authority has admonished Sikh-Canadian MPs to block the gay marriage bill in Parliament, saying anyone who votes it into law will be ostracized by their community for flouting their religious duty...

H ow did India react to the news of the acquittal of two Sikh Canadians accused in the Air-India bombing of 20 years ago? Did it inflame open wounds on the subcontinent of a billion people and fuel the fires of ancient ethnic conflicts? Not exactly...