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{{Newsbit1|http://www.sikhnet.com/news/14-million-new-jersey-students-learn-about-sikhs|1.4 Million New Jersey Students to Learn About Sikhs|http://www.sikhnet.com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/main/sikhcoalition-THUMB.jpg|The New Jersey State Board of Education (NJBOE) voted to adopt a statewide curriculum standard that includes Sikhism last week. The adoption also marks the first time the Coalition has worked with the community..}} | |||
{{Newsbit1|http://www.sikhnet.com/news/punjabi-be-canadas-4th-biggest-language-2011|Punjabi to be Canada's 4th biggest language by 2011|http://www.sikhnet.com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/main/JasonKenney.jpg|Punjabi is set to become the fourth largest spoken language in Canada by 2011 after English, French and Chinese, according to Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. The minister made the announcement Friday night..}} | |||
{{Newsbit1|http://www.sikhnet.com/news/kanwars-newest-painting-unveiled-mai-bhago-battlefield|Kanwar Singh's Newest Painting Unveiled|http://www.sikhnet.com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/main/maibhago-THUMB.jpg|[[Kanwar Singh|Kanwar Singh's]] long awaited painting of [[Mata Bhag Kaur]] was finally unveiled at the New York City Sikh Art and Film Gala. Over the next few months it will be exhibited across North America and the UK. [[Mai Bhago]], survivor of the [[battle of Khidrana]]}} | {{Newsbit1|http://www.sikhnet.com/news/kanwars-newest-painting-unveiled-mai-bhago-battlefield|Kanwar Singh's Newest Painting Unveiled|http://www.sikhnet.com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/main/maibhago-THUMB.jpg|[[Kanwar Singh|Kanwar Singh's]] long awaited painting of [[Mata Bhag Kaur]] was finally unveiled at the New York City Sikh Art and Film Gala. Over the next few months it will be exhibited across North America and the UK. [[Mai Bhago]], survivor of the [[battle of Khidrana]]}} | ||
Revision as of 17:01, 27 October 2009
1.4 Million New Jersey Students to Learn About Sikhs | |
The New Jersey State Board of Education (NJBOE) voted to adopt a statewide curriculum standard that includes Sikhism last week. The adoption also marks the first time the Coalition has worked with the community....... → read more |
Punjabi to be Canada's 4th biggest language by 2011 | |
Punjabi is set to become the fourth largest spoken language in Canada by 2011 after English, French and Chinese, according to Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. The minister made the announcement Friday night....... → read more |
Kanwar Singh's Newest Painting Unveiled | |
Kanwar Singh's long awaited painting of Mata Bhag Kaur was finally unveiled at the New York City Sikh Art and Film Gala. Over the next few months it will be exhibited across North America and the UK. Mai Bhago, survivor of the battle of Khidrana..... → read more |
Dr. Bhai Singh & the legendary Babaji | |
The late Sant Puran Singh ji was a Saint who lived outside the Indian subcontinent and was well aware of the difficulties, constraints and intrepidations that arise whilst living in alien culture and societies. Babaji demonstrated that....... → read more |
Parmukh Singh Hoogan only Sikh MP in Tanzania | |
During Summer 2009, I visited Tanzania to attend a Sikh wedding. Where we enjoyed the beautiful weather and the hospitality of Tanzanian people, we also had the opportunity to meet our cousin Mr. Parmukh Singh Hoogan, the only Sikh MP in Tanzania...... → read more |
Maharani Sahiba: Mover & Shaker | |
Preneet Kaur, India's Minister of State for External Affairs has taken decisive action and created a precedent by sending almost a dozen officials to Italy and setting up special camps there to help Italy's migrants mostly Sikhs from Punjab..... → read more |
Redemption ... Amidst The Drug Wars | |
During my trip to Punjab this past summer, Dr. Balwant Singh Sekhon arranged for my teenage son, Angad Singh and I to visit the Akal De-addiction Center at Cheema in district Sangrur, Punjab. "Biba Ji," he said to me, "you should visit and write about the drug issue in Punjab"...... → read more |
Children's Run Across Canada - Mission Acomplished! | |
Starting from Langley at 6am the runners successfully completed the last and final section of the Children’s Run Across Canada in Stanley Park, Vancouver. The run passed through Surrey, Burnaby, New Westminster, and Vancouver, through crowded....... → read more |
Bangkok's Surprising Touch of India | |
In more recent times, Tamils and Gujaratis migrated to Thailand in the late 1800s, trading in gems and textiles. Large-scale modern migration from northwest India began in the 1890s, followed by a wave of Sikhs and Hindus from the Punjab...... → read more |
Another year of success for Sikh school students | |
Students from the Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College are celebrating today (Thursday August 27) after another good round of GCSE results. Nervous students, many with parents in tow, rushed to the college in Roding Lane this morning to..... → read more |
Kenya Gurmat Camp Photos | |
During early August a Gurmat camp was held by a group of young Sikhs under the name of "iSikh". 15-year veer Amritpal Singh - a native Kenyan Amritdhari Singh, not from a Panjabi background puts some Panjabis to shame by his perfect Punjabi..... → read more |
I Will Never Cut My Hair | |
GGSSC Canada Reports the comments of one of many students who attended their crash course - Introduction to Sikhism. "I will never cut my hair and will try to become a good daughter of Guru Gobind Singhji" (Mehar Kaur, Age-16)..... → read more |
Sikh writer, Patwant Singh is no more | |
Well known Sikh Writer and philanthropist Patwant Singh has passed away in the national capital following a cardiac arrest. He was 84. Singh, who died at his residence here yesterday, is survived by wife Meher and adopted son Satjiv Singh Chahil. .....read more |
Meet the first Sikh soldiers to guard the Queen | |
Signaler Singh made history as the very first Sikh soldier to wear his turban on public duties guarding the monarch and protecting the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London across town. He was soon joined by Lance Corporal Singh...... → read more |
Faith of Choice | |
It’s a nondescript temple at Halhalia village in Bihar’s Araria district. It doesn’t have an idol; a mound of earth in one corner of the roofless one-room shrine represents Din Bhadri Devi, the local deity. Its walls are bare, but for priest Amlanand Rishidev..... → read more |
Tej Singh Weds Kivneet Kaur "It Was Meant To Be" | |
The dancing began before 9 on a Friday morning in the asphalt lot of a Fairfax office park. It carried on past 2 a.m. the following Sunday in the lushly lit ballroom of a downtown D.C. hotel, capping off a week-long celebration of Tej Singh Sujlana's marriage..... → read more |
Proud record:Kirpan never used by Canadian Sikhs in 100 years | |
A thirteen year old Sikh boy was found not guilty of using his Holy Kirpan, but the case did not end there as two of his classmates had alleged he used the ‘hair pin’ to threaten them. Judge Gilles Ouellet of the youth division of the Court of Quebec,..... → read more |
Bir survives suspicious fire at Khalsa school | |
"He does his miracles. That's the Guru's power. It's totally hard to believe the Bir survived. That building was on fire; there were huge flames coming from it....but the Bir is totally intact. It's a miracle nothing happened to it..." said Chawla...... → read more |
Update on the Children's Run Across Canada | |
The Sikh youth group started their journey Canada Day in St. John’s, Nfld. and have continued as far as central Ontario, raising money for children’s hospitals in each of the 10 provinces they jog through, as well as a hospital in Liberia, Africa...... → read more |
"Shoegate" Hero Singh Finally Speaks Out | |
When I hurled a shoe on India's Home Minister P. Chidambram at a press conference in New Delhi on April 7, 2009 in protest against the Sikh massacre of 1984, I had no doubt that some kind of action would be taken against me...... → read more |
2009 Sidak Leadership Camp Hosts Young Sikhs | |
Evening Divan was my favorite – sitting in the midst of the sangat, reciting Rehraas Sahib with my eyes closed. For a moment, I took a deep breath and listened. The sound of synchronized voices has an immense power – something I still cannot explain in words...... → read more |
Sikhs from India at the North Pole | |
On 15th July at 11:57 pm three Sikhs reached the North Pole aboard the Russian nuclear ice breaker "T50 Lyet Pobyedi" (50 years of Victory). This is the latest icebreaker of the Russian Navy and every summer it takes two voyages with private passengers to the North Pole..... → read more |
Jimmy Carter breaks over women's status | |
"Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God", Jimmy Carter. "The justification of discrimination against women and girls on grounds of religion or tradition, is unacceptable."..... → read more |
Trying Something New | |
Another funny episode with Nihang Singh trying to convince a kid to do something new since his voice isn’t exactly crystal clear and he is sure that he has an amazing voice for singing. Why not try something new and make a video for the SikhNet Youth Online Film Festival?..... → read more |
Saif Ali Khan’s Beard Angers Some | |
Looks like Saif Ali Khan is part of another controversy, except this one isn’t about his personal life, rather it has to do with his look in the up coming film, ‘Love Aaj Kal.’ It seems Saif’s first home production has run into some controversy..... → read more |
British Sikhs revive deadly art banned by the Raj | |
A short drive away from Windsor Castle, a group of ferocious-looking, blue-turbanned men are trying to preserve a martial art that frightened the life out of the British when they ruled India. Grunting at each other like wild boars, they brandish swords..... → read more |
It’s cool to be Sikh, but cooler if you wear a turban | |
There maybe an answer to the continuing dilemma for the Sikh community – a lack of men wanting to wear a turban. Well the answer is simple, make it cool to have a turban, create some positive vibes around this important issue of identity...... → read more |
Sikh runners to raise funds for hospitals | |
THE true spirit of Sikh sewa [service] on display as young gusty Sikh runners entered Halifax for their onward run to Vancouver to collect one lakh dollars for ten hospitals in Canada...... → read more |
Chardi Kala Kirtan Jatha of Amritsar on Tour | |
This week the Los Angeles Sikh community hosted the Chardi Kala Kirtan Jatha of Amritsar, India. This group of young graduates from Miri Piri Academy in Cherta, near Amritsar, was inspired to study classical kirtan..... → read more |
“White Sikhs” – foreigners who found Sikhism | |
Sword-carrying Sikhs roaming the Indian city of Amritsar are a normal sight; but white people wearing turbans definitely are not. The strangeness lies in the fact that they are non-Indians who converted to Sikhism...... → read more |
Controversial New Idea: Nerves Transmit Sound | |
Nerves transmit sound waves through your body, not electrical pulses, according to a controversial new study that tries to explain the long-standing mystery of how anaesthetics work...... → read more |
Sikhs Celebrate July 4th with Seva | |
A Sikh organization named S.E.V.A. has been participating in the 4th of July celebrations for the last seven years. This year again, its members prepared a Sikh-American themed float and distributed 8400 bottles of free chilled water...... → read more |
First Time Sikh Participation at European Prayer | |
We met in a region that just a few years ago was overwhelmed by an unthinkable religious war. While there is no strong Sikh presence in the area, given the Sikhs' history, it seemed like an important place to contribute in prayer...... → read more |
Report from Camp Miri Piri 2009 | |
My experience at Camp Miri Piri is hard to put into words, but I will try my best. I have been to many Sikhi related kid camps, but Camp Miri Piri was easily the best. I may not have become a saint-soldier as yet but I can start walking on the path to becoming one...... → read more |