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Books & Bookshops: Bringing a Horse to Water, or Vice Versa
	The Big Apple - New York City’s Manhattan - now has a brand new gurdwara. I think it is the first such community space for Sikhs in the city. My regret is that, having spent almost four decades in it, it happened after I moved out of the city. Just two blocks from it stands a musty old building..... → read more

Book review: The Guru's Gift
	This book is the first of its kind in Sikh women's studies. It draws and engages the reader into a variety of experiences of young Sikh women with whom research was conducted. These women have much to share; their ability to fluently communicate in English breaks away many barriers..... → read more

House of Refuge: Amritsar's Pingalwara
	The Pingalwara Charitable Society in Amritsar, Punjab, commonly known as Pingalwara, needs no introduction. The institution - a shelter for mentally challenged, handicapped, diseased, old age persons and the destitute --- is known all over the globe for the extraordinary services it provides to suffering humanity...... → read more

Marry—or Else
	Forced weddings and ‘honor’ killings aren’t just a developing-world issue. New research shows how it happens in England and the United States. When Jasvinder Sanghera turned 14, she knew her time had come. As the sixth of seven daughters in a conservative Sikh family, growing up in the English industrial city of Derby..... → read more

Sikh Identity: A Fading Image?
	If you are a Sikh youth and wavering on this issue, I humbly suggest you really explore your reasons for not wearing the Five K’s. Go to your parents, find older Sikhs who’ve gone through the same issue, read the example of other Sikhs, and go to Waheguru–that wonderful light which dispels all darkness–for guidance...... → read more

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 {{NewsSikhnet|http://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikh-identity-fading-image|Sikh Identity: A Fading Image?|http://www.sikhnet.com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/main/speaking-at-gurdwara1.jpg|If you are a Sikh youth and wavering on this issue, I humbly suggest you  really explore your reasons for not wearing the Five K’s. Go to your  parents, find older Sikhs who’ve gone through the same issue, read the  example of other Sikhs, and go to Waheguru–that wonderful light which  dispels all darkness–for guidance.}}
-{{NewsSikhnet|http://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikh-converts-and-challenges-they-face|"Sikh Converts" ...and the challenges they face|http://www.sikhnet.com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/main/religious_intolerance_conversion.jpg|I'm bringing up these challenges here, so that the Sikh Community may be  more consciously aware of them, and realize that addressing these  issues isn't only a Seva (Selfless Service), but a Responsibility that  must be taken seriously. It directly affects the Now of the Sikh Panth.}}
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