No Longer Alone.
Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted in Punjabi, Sikhi | 4 Comments »Yesterday, we received a special request for a blog topic. The urgency and pain expressed in the comment inspired me to write. In 2006, the Jakara Movement sponsored an online survey that revealed a horrifying 1 in 4 women that ...
i’ma be on the TV, mama
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Entertainment, Punjabi, Sikhi | 5 Comments »How do you know you've made it as a notable community? When Jeopardy! gives you your own category of clues... twice! That's right, two nights ago my favorite game show featured the category "Punjab." Because I can only remember ...
Domestic Violence In Elderly Couples
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in General, Punjabi, Sikhi | 12 Comments »A couple of months ago, maybe it was many weeks, I saw on the TV show, "Cops" with utter disgust a Bapuji and Biji, being a form of "entertainment" for a domestic violence assault. Along with my disgust, anger, and ...
Bhutto Assassinated
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in News | 6 Comments »The news is ablaze; the blogs are on fire; Rawalpindi and Sind are burning. Former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated today at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. While few Sikhs will shed any tears for Bhutto as ...
A model Asian neighbor
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in General | 7 Comments »Does this sound familiar? It sounds like it could be many areas in India, including Punjab... The preference for boys here is centuries old and was rooted in part in an agrarian society that relied on sons to do the hard ...
Santa Singh and the Khalsa Tree
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Posted in Sikhi | 6 Comments »This time of the year always makes me wonder how children in our community perceive Christmas. As a child I don’t remember having a Christmas tree in my house or any talk about Santa Claus coming with gifts (maybe my ...
Punjabi Sikhs: Divided, United, and Brown?
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 Posted in General, Punjabi, Sikhi | 8 Comments »As I have been thinking about the Sikh community’s mobilization against post-9/11 U.S. racial profiling policies, such as the TSA security guidelines, I have once again been reminded of the identity politics within our Sikh community. To be honest, ...
Capitalism, Carnage, Celebrity, and Contraction
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 Posted in India | 5 Comments »So Modi and the BJP win again. Kill 2,000 Muslims and become Chief Minister. Hardly new. Kill 3,000 Sikhs and become Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs. Reasons for Modi's victory will soon flow: his cult of personality, the ...
Re: Relationships - What Guru Sahib Thinks
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 Posted in General | 4 Comments »Many of our recent posts have involved discussion about relationships and gender differentiations in our community. So on Thursday, when I drafted this post, I decided to read the “hukamnama” from Darbar Sahib Amritsar and see what Guru Granth Sahib ...
Are Amritdhari Sikhs a Punjabi minority?
Friday, December 21st, 2007 Posted in Punjabi, Sikhi | 3 Comments »Earlier this week the Haryana and Punjab high courts struck down a provision in SGPC-run schools that reserves 50% of its seats for Sikhs under the same concept as the federal provision for reserved seats for historic minorities. The SGPC ...
1 + _ = ?
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in General | 7 Comments »I recently had a conversation with a friend whose relationship with his fiancée is in a bit of turmoil … Let’s call him Jasdeep and his fiancée- Palwinder. They’ve been dating for a few years, told both parents who gave their ...
All you need is love?
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Posted in General | 6 Comments »I always get asked about how my spouse and I met; those that are aware of Desis and the “arranged marriage” are always curious as to whether my marriage was in fact arranged. My first thought– how do you ...
Runaway Grooms
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Punjabi | 9 Comments »Blimey. Last week National Public Radio picked up a story about one of the newest scams to hit the community, that of Runaway Grooms. If NPR is doing a story about Punjabis and/or Sikhs, you'd hope it would be for ...
What does Ishmeet’s Victory Mean?
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Entertainment, Sikhi | 14 Comments »Since May of this year a competition has raged throughout the Indian subcontinent. On Saturday November 24th, 2007, the results were in...the 1st Amul Star Voice of India: Ishmeet Singh from Ludhiana. For those in the diaspora, who flip past ...
Ji Aiyan Nu (Welcome)
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Welcome to The Langar Hall. This is a space dedicated to the experiences, reflections, and interests of a diverse group of young individuals – tied together by our common and varied identities as Sikhs ...
