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Mil Ke Gaavo: Happy Birthday to
Dear Sukhbir Ji
16 July 2008
Personal
life of a politician is often more educative than all the pious
platitudes he spews in public. So when a series of Akhand Paths
across Punjab... |
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Sikhs, Canada and Human Rights
9
July, 2008
The Sikh community’s commitment as a spiritual community to
respecting each other and humanity at large, regardless of faith,
race, or income... |
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US Supreme Court grants major relief to immigrants
2
July, 2008
In a landmark 5-4 judgment which can have major ramifications for
Sikhs and other immigrant communities in the United States, the US
Supreme Court.. |
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Dangalnama
18
June,
2008
The Lift Festival in conjunction with Theatre Royal Stratford East
has been hosting Flame Production’s Dangalnama this month.
Dangalnama is a gripping... |
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Geelani beats the system and adds
solace to 1984
11
June, 2008
AMRITSAR:
Invariably every year, the June 1984 ceremony at the Akal Takht and
other places in Punjab is an all-Sikh affair. Prior to the Saka
Akal Takht... |
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This Sikh student gets an apology but problem is far more serious
11
June, 2008
NEW YORK: Setting an example and signifying how seriously the
western society takes the issue of religious freedom and equal
rights, Chancellor Joel Klein... |
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Sant Jarnail Singh –a multi-faceted
personality
4
June,
2008
CHANDIGARH:
Various facets of the personality of Sant Jarnail Singh were debated
at a seminar organized by the Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Panch
Pardhani)... |
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What Gujjars want, and Why?
4
June,
2008
India's middle
class' grunt-in-residence juvenile angst auntie Tavleen Singh gets
prime place in leading English language journalism, often representing... |
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Spokesman continues its blasphemous tirade
28
May,
2008
AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH: The Sikh nation takes legitimate pride that the
Guru Granth Sahib contains the original writings of the Sikh Gurus
and... |
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“Sikhs in Print” exhibition opens in Liverpool
7
May,
2008
LIVERPOOL:
Twin
sisters Amrit and Rabindra Singh, well-known in the field of art,
offered another treat of their work to those who may want to... |
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Academics engage with abuse of minorities in India at SSA event
23 April 2008
BERKELEY: On
Thursday, April 17th, the UC-Berkeley Sikh Students Association (SSA)
hosted a teach-in called “Human Rights and Religious... |
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Women more vulnerable to cancer in Punjab:
Study
9
April
2008
CHANDIGARH: A
religious belief appears to be guarding Punjabi men against a dreaded
disease. According to a recent study, more women are dying from cancer... |
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Iraq War: Five Years Later, No End in Sight
2
April
2008
Five years have passed since the start of the Iraq war
yet no end seems to be in sight. President Bush’s claim of victory
in the war looks completely false... |
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The Legend of Tejinder Singh Sibia
26
March 2008
Isabel
Garcia, 73, was expecting a phone call from Tejinder Singh Sibia
(Ted Sibia) when she noticed his obituary in Sacramento Bee on March
9, 2008... |
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If there is Corn In Your Soup,
Don’t Land In It
19
March 2008
Of all the voices, at least the journalists harping about the demise
of diversification should have heard the voice of Goldman Sachs or
Jeff Currie... |
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Harbhajan Singh’s Dilemma: to be or
not to be
8
March 2008
Quoting
the tenth master, Harbhajan Singh has stirred a hornet’s
nest, with the faithful seeking more of him... |
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Does size matter? And what’s the size
anyway?
5
March 2008
How
serious a nation is in tackling a problem or engaging with it is
often deduced from how seriously it views or quantifies the problem... |
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Ocean of Pearls Premiering at The Miami
International Film Festival
13 February 2008
“Ocean
of Pearls” is the first movie to be made out of Hollywood by a Sikh
director, Sarab Singh Neelam. It will be premiering at the 25th
Miami... |
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Jatinder Pal
Singh is Mr Singh pageant champion
13 February 2008
MUMBAI:
A tall strapping Sikh at the Mr Singh contest put it succintly when,
after struggling to find work as a television actor for a year, he
found... |
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Jathedars begin blame game, Sikhs seek new
systems
6 February 2008
There is nothing more painful than witnessing the fight of Takht
Jathedars. Instead of showing signs of statesmanship, they are
fighting like small-time... |
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Every Farmer Counts, but India fails to read such
slogans
6 February 2008
NEW DELHI: After finding the
Indian State apathetic and the media hardly putting their plight in
perspective, activists finally got together the children of... |
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Kurr Phire Pardhan
ve lalo
30 January 2008
A
time comes in the history of nations when every member of the
nation, particularly of a fledgling nation must speak up. I believe
that the Jathedars... |
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Sajjan Kumar incited mobs to kill Sikhs, says
Gurcharan Singh
30 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: "WE EXIST, You just don't
see us" was the searing frontpage headline in a recent edition of
the World Sikh News while bringing... |
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Dr. Swaraj Singh’s California tour leaves
lasting impressions
23 January 2008
SACRAMENTO: Sikh
ideology was never intended to be merely reduced to ritualistic practices. Gurbani
principles address modern crises directly... |
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Accountability and Media: A
Murky tale
23 January 2008
The CPI(M)'s
Prakash Karat has expressed strong views on the entry of FDI into
Indian media. WSN columnist Prof Jagmohan Singh takes him... |
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Point about
kirpans
23 January 2008
One of the most
protected people in India, the Prime Minister, at the Golden Temple, is
surrounded by people, each of whom wears a kirpan... |
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Ham and Eggs
16 January 2008
This is the most exciting presidential election of my lifetime.
Excitement tends to bring out the extremes in media. And in this
primary... |
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Intellectuals Mull over
Whither Went Sovereignty?
16 January 2008
THE
operation Blue Start of June 1984 created turmoil in Sikhs’ relationship
with the Indian nation state. If 9/11 attack on twin towers rocked... |
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OK fine, We've messed it up. Now, will you lend a
hand?
9 January 2008
One of the things the
Diaspora, particularly the NRPs, can teach the Punjab folk is the stress the
developed societies lay.... |
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Six dolphins confirmed at Harike in Punjab
9 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: Experts of
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have confirmed the sighting of six rare
Indus freshwater dolphins in the Harike barrage... |
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Filming a community's concerns
9 January 2008
Film pages of even
community newspapers are so often full of Mumbaiya stuff that passes off as
film that serious cinephiles.... |
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One Monkey and a pack of wild dogs
9 January 2008
In India,
it is very difficult to escape cricket. If India wins, it is the saviour of
the country and if it loses, the national honour of the country gets sullied |
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Prodigal daughter
2
January, 2008
In the
end, it's the first impression that lasts. Certainly, that's how it
was for Benazir Bhutto and me. I never knew her well and what little
interaction... |
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My friend, Benazir
2
January, 2008
Sitting in my digs at
Cambridge after dinner during the Easter vacation of 1976, Benazir,
who had driven over from Oxford that morning with her friend... |
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Calling Citizens Foreigners. Is it fair
26 December
2007
The Diaspora communities are
often at the receiving end in the host country but the most
vulnerable are the immigrant... |
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Other Merchants of Death
26 December 2007
I have a high regard for your political party --Pattali
Makkal Kacthi, founded by your illustrious father and I am glad that
coalition... |
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Why victims' families oppose Death
Penalty?
19 December, 2007
Lorry Post
is an organizer with New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty. He founded the group in 1999 to honor his daughter, who
was... |
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The Sikh Stars
19 December, 2007
Ishmeet Singh’s emergence as the Star Voice of India in a high
eyeball gathering Indian TV channel reality singing talent contest, coupled
by the increasing awareness about identity among... |
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Indians in Malaysia, and why is New Delhi
handicapped?
12 December, 2007
As a community newspaper, the WSN often takes up
causes and cudgels that have to do with the Sikhs, but then.... |
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The Fifth Cup is Poisoned Bread of Caste
12 December, 2007
The Sikh community's singular failure in
engaging and addressing the fallacy and menace of caste within the
fraternity has come to ..... |
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Is SAD (Mann) finsihed in the West?
5 December, 2007
In the last ten months the number of
those who support Simranjit Singh Mann and belong to SAD (Mann) in the UK,
mainland Europe, Canada and the USA have naturally... |
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British Indians too indulge in foeticide
5 December, 2007
LONDON: British Indian women are as
prone to the secretive, outlawed practice of female foeticide as their
counterparts in the mother country and they generally travel... |
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Ishmeet visits Darbar Sahib; says govt should set up
music academies
5 December, 2007
AMRITSAR: Ishmeet Singh, the new singing
sensation from Punjab, feels that the Punjab government, in order to promote
music in the state... |
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Hagiophobia to Sikhiphobia
5 December, 2007
Though you were physically killed on the night of 4-5 June 1984, you
continue to inspire the Sikh youth. The Indian state and the
Indian media are still mortally afraid of you. They are scared... |
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A Massacre Is a Massacre
28 November 2007
When is a riot not a riot? When is a massacre not a
massacre? When is a mass murderer not a mass murderer? And when is
public... |
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Sikhcess plans 50,000 food packages’ delivery to North
America’s Homeless
21
November, 2007
Washington: Sikhcess, a Sikh community organization dedicated to
highlighting Sikh achievements and... |
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Houstonians open homes for interfaith dinner dialogue
21
November, 2007
We, at the WSN, are reproducing this report with
the suggestion that the Sikh community would think seriously about
launching.... |
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Software suite to knock down Punjabi script barriers
developed
21
November, 2007
CHANDIGARH: A Punjabi software suite to
knock down Punjabi script barriers has been developed at the Advanced Centre
for.... |
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Medha Patkar responds to
WSN initiative
21
November, 2007
I suppose I haven't met you as yet or may be I am wrong. Your letter
has drawn much response from many readers. thanks for the support.
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A needy Christian from Malawi takes a shot in the
dark, finds light and spirit of Sikhism
14
November, 2007
Blantyre, Malawi, SE Africa: Imagine
sipping on green tea and checking your last unread e-mail before heading to
bed at 2a.m. - and it is from one Davie Kasinja, a young African man... |
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IN PRAISE OF NEPOTISM
14
November, 2007
Nepotism is an interesting
phenomenon any day, and there has been some serious scholarly work
on the merits of nepotism in the last few years. Americans
censure... |
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Open letter to S. Parkash Singh Badal
31 October,
2007
It is tradition in Punjab that when one
is communicating to an octogenarian person, then one should not express too
much hanger and hatred.... |
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For the
world, Burma will always mean Aung San Suu Kyi
10 October, 2007
Men
of the stature of Mr Vaclav Havel, the former President of
Czechoslovakia, and Bishop Desmond M. Tutu of South Africa, both
Nobel Laureates, have documented the misery... |
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Buri Nazar Wale, Tera…
3 October, 2007
Of the
many things common between the East Punjab and West Punjab are the
crazy, colourful, earthy slogans written behind trucks, and in the
same language. But people... |
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Sher-e-Kashmir Sant Singh Teg rides to death
20 September, 2007
Obscure
and inaccessible villages in the deep ravines of the Kashmir valley
have scant resources and very little touch of the progress of the
human race... |
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Anniversary of the abduction of Jaswant Singh
Khalra
12 Septembesr, 2007
Twelve years
ago, on September 6, 1995, the Punjab Police abducted human rights
activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. The police held Khalra in illegal
detention for almost two months, tortured him, and murdered him in
late October 1995... |
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Remembering the revolutionary
5 September, 2007
Dear Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh ji,
As the birth centenary of the great martyr Bhagat Singh, begins from
28th September, the day he was... |
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OF a racial Marquess, a Sikh taxi driver
15 August, 2007
London: Across Britain, and across the Sikh
community in Punjab and the Diaspora here in the US and elsewhere..... |
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Mistake booked Book Misses Guru
18 July, 2007
SACRAMENTO: Months after the California Sikhs
had successfully got the State Board of Education to get..... |
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George Thomas — The Ruler of Haryana
4 July 2007
Born in a poor Irish family of Tipperary
(Ireland) in 1756 A.D, George Thomas could not get proper education.’ He
became a sailor and arrived... |
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SGPC is vandalising Sarkare-Khalsa memories
27 June 2007
I am seething with anger since the day the SGPC
demolished the historic Baradari within the Golden Temple Complex in
Amritsar. I am angrier... |
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As far as Sikhs are concerned, India, today, is just
like India Today
27 June 2007
AMRITSAR: India's leading weekly magazine
India Today's latest edition (July 2) is a commemorative issue, the first of
the our such issues... |
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Sikhs and the law of the land
27 June 2007
A deredar of Sirsa has insulted the Guru of the
Sikhs, the history of the Sikhs, the principles and traditions of
the Sikhs. More than a month... |
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'Amritsar
Times fast emerging as voice of the Sikh Community'
20 June, 2007
Times and the World Sikh News are increasingly
emerging as the voice of the Sikh community. Correct presentation of panthic
issue through... |
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Lessons From Dera Row
6 June, 2007
The cancellation of protest march from Gurudwara
Fatehgarh to Chandigarh put a dampener on the spirit of thousands of Sikhs
who wanted to demonstrate their hurt psyche. When Jathedar had made it
clear that... |
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Dosanjh-Hayer ilk and the concept of Miri-Piri: A
study in negation
6 June, 2007
Throughout the Canadian Media's disinformation
campaign to malign the global Sikh community following the Indian
government's 'diplomatic protest... |
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Gur Ki Ninda Sune Na Kaan
23 May,2007
Pen is mightier than the sword; and camera is
mightier than the pen... |
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Akhar, a Punjabi Word Processor
9 May, 2007
Till now Punjabi
keyboard was used to type Punjabi; it was just a type writer with no
formatting features of a modern ....
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Sikhs use Vaisakhi parade to collect record-breaking
aid for Daily Bread Food Bank
2 May,2007
TORONTO: In what a beautiful way did a section
of the media describe the ushering in of Vaisakhi... |
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Admn prepares to minimise emissions in Golden Temple's
periphery
2 May,2007
Amritsar: Finding the concentration of suspended
particulate matter from 296 to 586 microgram per cubic metre against the
permissible limit ... |
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The Guru Nanak Prize
28 March 2007
NEW YORK: Nominations are being invited for the
Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, a US $50,000 award for a living individual or
organization... |
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Pak Sikhs want kids to settle in India
28 March 2007
Amritsar: Many Sikh families living in Pakistan
are finding it difficult to find a suitable match for their children and are
keen to settle... |
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SHAME Visits India As 2007 Dawns
3 January 2007
NOIDA:
Which was the most horrible
horror film you ever saw? You ain’t seen nothin’. Meet devilincarnate
Moninder Singh Pandher... |
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The Dismal State of Human Rights in India
20 dec,2006
Twenty
two years ago more than 3000 Sikhs were massacred in a planned pogrom. On
November 1, 1984 a day after Mrs. Indira Gandhi... |
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The First War Ever?
6 Dec,2006
The
Government of India has decided to celebrate the anniversary of 1857 as the
First War of Independence. A debate has been raging about the... |
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Sikhs in Afghanistan live in hellish conditions, yearn
for home
29 November, 2006
KANDAHAR (AFGHANISTAN): They yearn, they
pray, they want to return home. They wore yellow patches in the... |
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Finally, Canada prepares to come to terms with the sad
chapter of Kamagata Maru
29 November, 2006
VANCOUVER: A measure passed in 1908 in
Canada prohibited the entrance of migrants who had not sailed directly to
Canada from their country of origin... |
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Guru Nanak and his mission of humankind
1 November, 2006
In these times there are conflicts, violence and bloodshed
everywhere.Atomic threat haunts humankind. People are .... |
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Asian women lowest paid workers in UK
25 October 2006
LONDON: Leading black and Asian
professional women in Britain have called on their peers to “storm the
doors” of blue chip companies, following... |
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Sikhs are now more visible faces in US
25 October 2006
EDISON: The train station billboards tell
it all. Local travel agents promise the best airfares from New York to
Mumbai. Shagun Fashions is selling dazzling... |
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Monty Panesar, a true Sikh sports icon: SGPC
18 October, 2006
New Delhi: In the midst of its row with
cricketer, Harbhajan Singh, for featuring in a liquor advertisement, the
Shiromani Gurdwara..... |
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Punjab is now balle-balle with this airline
18 October, 2006
Chandigarh: Bhangra-pop at 35,000
feet in the air, hostess saying Sat Sri Akal and catering incudes tandoori
chicken with makki-di-roti .... |
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Reiterating commitment to the cause
4 October 2006
CHANDIGARH:
It was 25 years ago
on September 29 that in the first such major action, the Dal Khalsa hijacked
the Indian Airlines... |
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A choice of heroes
4 October 2006
My hero,
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. On May 28, 1998, at 3.16 p.m. Pakistani Standard Time,
my hero shook the granite mountains of Ras Koh... |
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Riverside Gurdwara & Pashaura Singh
4 October 2006
On Sunday,
October 1st, the management committee of Sikh Temple, Riverside in
California took a hard position on the ongoing panthic... |
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