The Doctor is Out May 31, 2009
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The Doctor is Out
741 days later, the Good Doctor is free, but BJP CM still crows
Priyaleen K Renuka & Gian Inder Singh
741 days in jail that Dr Binayak Sen spent could have been a blot on the face of an India that was churlishly jumping about, waving its ink-stained fingersto denote itself as the world’s biggest democracy, but Chattisgarh’s BJP chief minister delivered a bigger slap to India’s reputation. (more…)
Sikhs want Queen to return artefacts May 30, 2009
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Sikhs want Queen to return artefacts
LONDON: A British Sikh group has written to the Queen demanding access to Sikh property “plundered” by the British during the Raj. (more…)
Indian media and minorities May 29, 2009
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by Baldev Singh
Dear Editor,
India Tribune
For the sake of historical truth and communal harmony, please allow me to respond to Niranjan Shah’s column published in the India Tribune (Chicago) of September 28, 2002, which claimed that Sikhs are Hindus.
Let us not poison the minds of our young children with ignorance, communal hatred and historical myths. Let them grow to be honest, upright and truthful human beings, which the world needs the most, especially, a country like India.
I am glad that he admitted at the outset that the word “Hindu” is not found in Hindu Scriptures and this label was given to the Indian people by outsiders. However, for some reason he failed to inform the readers about the meaning of “Hindu” and gave an absurd explanation that “Hindu” is the Persian equivalent of the Vedic term “Sindhu” used for a river. It is difficult to imagine that a knowledgeable person like Shah does not know the meaning of “Hindu.” Let me explain what the word “Hindu” means.
Theo-political Status of the Golden Temple & Double Sovereignty May 24, 2009
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Theo-political Status of the Golden Temple & Double Sovereignty
The roots of the Sikh doctrinal path thoroughly explained with a modern idiom
Bhai Sahib Sirdar Kapur Singh
On the occasion of his centennial birth anniversary, World Sikh News proudly reproduces this masterpiece of Bhai Sahib Sirdar Kapur Singh -National Professor of Sikhism. This essay presents the Sikh doctrinal position of the life of a Sikh in modern society, the rationale for Sikh people being a state within a state and the need for a better understanding of the Sikh religio-political thought by world governments. As this doctrine is not understood and maligned, it becomes the basis of conflict and confrontation between the Sikhs and the State, argues the learned scholar and philosopher.
We seek the indulgence of readers to bear with the length of the article, and assimilate the thoughts provided herein. Perhaps no other dissertation so thoroughly explains the Sikh position and appropriately presents the status of Golden Temple and its adjuncts.
Every young reader keen to know the practical religio-socio-political side of the life of Sikhs must read and re-read this piece for a better understanding of the fundamental ways of the Sikh people. The inquisitive mind will do well to read and ponder, question and deliberate to grasp the wisdom spelled out so well in this immemorial piece. (more…)
Human Rights Watch indicts Sri Lanka May 15, 2009
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GUILTY!
Human Rights Watch indicts Sri Lanka
Visvanathan
Tales of horror from the safe zone fails to awaken the United Nations. The leading human rights protection body calls for an immediate session of the UN Human Rights Council. (more…)
Are the British still deceiving the Sikhs? May 15, 2009
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Are the British still deceiving the Sikhs?
Jagdeesh Singh
The role of the British rulers to annex the Sikh Commonwealth and keep the child-king Duleep Singh in exile is a political sin the British will have to regret some day. Though overtaken by events, United Nations should take up the case of the Sikh Nation versus the British government, with India as an implicated party to undo the wrong done to the Sikh nation in the nineteenth century.
1984 riots issue can’t be kept alive for ever? May 15, 2009
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1984 riots issue can’t be kept alive for ever: PM
Ludhiana, May 11 (IANS) The issue of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cannot be kept alive for ever, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Monday.
Answering a question at a media conference, Manmohan Singh pointed out that his Congress-led government had increased compensation paid to victims of the riots that followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
The prime minister charged that “some people want to keep the issue alive apne dukaan chamkane ke liye (for their selfish interests)”. He held that this was of “no profit to either the country or the Sikh community”.
Sikhs in Britain mark self-determination day for community May 15, 2009
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Sikhs in Britain mark self-determination day for community
WSN Network
Birmingham: Even as the general elections proceeded in India, the Sikhs in Britain underlined the debate about demand for a sovereign Sikh state as some prominent faces from the community led the observance of Khalistan Day functions to mark the 1986 declaration. The day is celebrated with much more gusto among the diaspora Sikhs than in India where possible fears of reprisal action and an increasingly non-ideological way of politics has veered the community away from real and core concerns.
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Lord Nazir Ahmed said that freedom for Kashmir and Khalistan would bring true stability and peace in a region that is now looking in to the abyss with failed intervention and even misadventure by foreign powers.
Zambry Compares Himself to Mandela, Gandhi May 12, 2009
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Clearly Zambry got it wrong when comparing himself to Mandela http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/21747/84/. He should at least complete many years languishing in jail as a political prisoner before that can even become faintly true.
As for Zambry comparing himself to Gandhi; that would be quite apt really.
Gandhi is really not the Mahatma that propaganda makes him out to be. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi though should suffice. Consider the following: (more…)
