Amritsar, Punjab: The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) passed its budget of ` 905.06 crore for 2014-15 here on Thursday. Budget is more than 200 million US dollars. The budget was passed at a meeting of the SGPC executive chaired ...
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Arrow In The Blue
Anandpur Sahib, Punjab: The little town in Roopnagar district of Punjab with the Sutlej a shimmering blue presence on its south-west border—is painted yellow-orange for Hola Mohalla, the spring festival of colours. The Nihangs (Sikh warrior-mendicants) with their distinctive electric-blue ...
Read More »The many British connections to massacres of Sikhs
There has been no justice rendered for the Amritsar massacre of 1984. Murky British connections to the Indian government’s attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984 have fuelled demands for full disclosure in UK and India. Prime Minister ...
Read More »Rare Sikh manuscripts presented at 2nd Max Arthur Macauliffe Conference in Ireland
London, UK: In my lecture on 22nd March 2014 I covered the area of Sikh translations from a western point of view. I first considered the role played by Dr Johh Leyden (1775-1811) a linguist from Scotand who was versed ...
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