Fighting With Courage and Inspiration: Voice of a Humane Dissident
Go to virtually any diasporan Sikh’s house that has an interest in Sikhi and you will find the ubiquitous blue book. On the cover is a dashing picture of Shaheed Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale. The title: Fighting For Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants. While too few Sikhs...
Silencing truth through rape; an inquiry of the Sikh struggle survives
Cynthia Mahmood, author of the groundbreaking work, “Fighting for Faith and Nation,” just published an incredibly personal and powerful account of her rape and assault, possibly by Indian police, in an attempt to silence her anthropological work on Sikhs in Punjab in the early 1990s. ...
More “Sikh” products- tv channels
More Sikh (or being promoted as Sikh) products are launching- I’m referring to the new tv channels: 1) The Sikh Channel– which is replacing Brit Hits TV and 2) Punjjabi TV…
Punjabi and Sikh people finally have the opportunity to watch programs in their mother tongue with the launch...
The Blunder That Is India(n Politicians)
Posted by Jodha in India on 04 28th, 2009 | 6 Comments
Published in 1954, AL Basham’s The Wonder That Was India is considered a classic in Indian historiography.
With a quick reworking of the title, it probably also reflects the Indian electorate’s choices. Here is one take coming from the prestigious Foreign Policy Passport Page.
Navjot Sidhu...
Gatka by Rashpal Kaur
Many of you will fondly remember Rohanpreet’s performance on Zee TV last year. In similar news, here is Rashpal Kaur – a young girl from Chandigarh – who recently performed Gatka on Zee TVs Dance India Dance. The judges were not only taken aback by her performance, but also by the...
Protesters to Martyrs – Whither the Sikh Revolutionaries?
Next month marks the two year anniversary since the Shahadat of Bhai Kamaljit Singh. It has been quite some time since I last blogged about Dehra Sacha Sauda and unfortunately maybe I am also guilty of only following the story as the Indian media does or does not.
It was at the end of 2007, when this...
Let The Truth Be Heard
Earlier this month, worldwide Human Rights organization Amnesty International released a news article on the plight of Sikh Massacre victims of 1984, still awaiting justice after 25 years. This came shortly after the Delhi Court delayed ruling on Jagdish Tytler, due to the CBI’s inability to...
Genocidees Anonymous: Armenians and Sikhs
Blogged: Amol Singh
On the night of April 24, 1915, over 200 of Constantinople’s Armenian intellectual and civic leaders were taken from their homes and boarded upon trains headed eastward toward the city of Ankara. What followed over the next few months would be a concerted, systematic Ottoman project...
British Sikh Police Association launches
According to the Sikh Times, Sikh police officers are coming together to help address discrimination within the workforce in addition to addressing community relations between Sikhs and the British police.
The Association, which is to launch next Wednesday, lists its goals as follows:
The aims and objectives...
“Sikh Knowledge”
Posted by Phulkari in Activism, Canada, Entertainment, General, Human Rights, Politics, Punjabi, Sikhi on 04 24th, 2009 | 42 Comments
It seems like Canada is showcasing one socially conscious Sikh rapper after another. TLH has covered “Humble The Poet” and now here is “Sikh Knowledge” from Montreal. Sikh Knowledge raps with Lotus on issues effecting the 2nd generation and marginalized peoples.
Kanwar Anit Singh Saini, a.k.a....
Jew-Hindu Bhai Bhai: The Popularity of Mein Kampf in India
Posted by Jodha in World News on 04 23rd, 2009 | 66 Comments
Sometimes some articles are too disturbing to not make a comment.
The word Mein Kampf immediately brings to mind Adolf Hitler’s deluded dream and genocidal paranoia of the “Jewish peril”. Long the Bible of idiotic Aryan supremacist groups, the book seems to have found a rather new (or maybe)...
Punjabi/Khalsa Schools: Where Do They Go?
Posted by Phulkari in Education, Organizations, Politics, Punjabi, Sikhi on 04 23rd, 2009 | 12 Comments
On TLH we have posted on the importance of Punjabi/Khalsa Schools. I have found that despite many students’ resistance to attend these schools, they plant the seeds for future exploration into Sikhi. At the age of 12 you may think you are too cool for school on Sundays, but at 19-20 or even...
A Sikh Woman Warrior Tells Her Tale
Today, I want to share with you, Nirpreet Kaur’s story. I highlight her story for 2 reasons.
First, as we’ve discussed on this blog before, the majority of Sikh history as its been documented thus far really is his-tory. So this piece of her-story is a rare gem. And second, too often, we think...
Heretics
Posted by RP Singh in Media on 04 21st, 2009 | 2 Comments
I am a loyal listener of Chicago Public Radio’s weekly series, “This American Life.” No matter how many different types of media are out there, I still find the radio documentary to be a powerful medium. Since I can’t always catch it when it’s on, I made a point to subscribe...
Seva, Redefined
One of the underlying issues to many of the discussions we have here on TLH seems to focus upon whether or not elements of Sikhi are being redefined as we evolve in the communities within which we reside. We often take concepts such as Seva, Sangat and Simran for granted without wondering if they...
From Kabul through Kashmir: Thoughts on Af-Pak-India and the Sikhs
Posted by Jodha in World News on 04 20th, 2009 | 12 Comments
With Obama’s move for a new strategy, recently, we have seen an avalanche of different articles from Af-Pak, the newly vogue name for the region. I will begin with some more macro-debates, before turning to the Sikh-specific.
An interesting analysis was recently featured in the London Review...
A Witness in a Culture of Complicity – Part 1
Posted by Mehmaan (Guest) in Human Rights on 04 20th, 2009 | 18 Comments
Blogged by: Mewa Singh
I haven’t written in quite a bit of time. Once in a while I share personal pieces, but as I like to protect my privacy I don’t do it too often.
However, this one is fresh (occurring just this weekend) and in some way I am soliciting the readers’ opinions as...
Sikhs Sing National Anthems at Raptors Vaisakhi Game
Its been a good year so far for Sikhs and Canadian sports. First, we’ve had NHL regular season and playoff games broadcast in Punjabi. We’ve also the first NBA game broadcast in Punjabi. And this year, at the annual Vaisakhi game for the Toronto Raptors, four good looking Sardars sang the...
Sikh teen acquitted in Montreal kirpan case
Updated: Friday, at 11:30PM
Last year we covered the story of a Sikh youth accused of brandishing his kirpan on the schoolyard. Accounts of the incident were hugely divergent; it was unclear whether an assault had ever actually occurred, or whether the report was a feature of animosity toward religious...
The U.S. Army and the Turban
Sikhs Now: Kamaldeep Kalsi (L) and Tejdeep Rattan (R)
Two Sikh recruits in the U.S. Army, Kamaljeet Singh and Tejdeep Singh, were told they would be allowed to continue to wear their turbans as active members of the military. They describe this as being able to wear both their uniforms: that of a Sikh,...
