Author Archives: Guest Writer

Panthic space shrinking within Akali Dal; more Hindus for parliament

Chandigarh, Punjab: The traditional panthic space within the Shiromani Akali Dal appears to be shrinking. While there are about a dozen Hindu legislators in the Punjab assembly, the party president and the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal is believed to be ...

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UK wakes up to caste bias

 London,UK: For a place that is only one-fifteenth the size of London, Coventry has a large number of gurdwaras. Even that might not have seemed so incongruous considering that Sikhs are the largest ethnic minority in this Midlands town — but ...

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109 Members of Congress Call for Sikh Hate Crime Tracking

Washington, DC: One hundred and nine members of the U.S. House of Representatives issued a new letter today calling on the FBI to begin tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus, and Arab-Americans, the way it does for other communities. The ...

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We call ourselves Tamilian Punjabis

Chennai, India: They may have nothing in common with people here, but most of the 300-odd Sikh families that reside in Chennai identify themselves with the local culture. “I can speak Tamil very fluently and know a smattering of Malayalam as ...

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