US: Intolerance and its by-products have been making a lot of news lately. From Clive Bundy’s musing about black people being better off in cotton plantations, to a white supremacist murderous rage at Jewish centers in Kansas City, to rapper Joe Budden posting a picture of an elderly Sikh gentleman at an airport with the caption “not on my watch, homey” ...

The following remarks were delivered by Valarie Kaur at the Pentagon’s first-ever event to commemorate the Sikh faith. Hosted by the Pentagon Chaplain, the program was organized by Major Kalsi, Captain Rattan, Corporal Lamba, and the Sikh Coalition, an organization leading the campaign for turbaned Sikhs and other people of faith to be allowed to serve in the U.S. military. ...

Chandigarh, Punjab: He renounced his French citizenship for embracing Sikhism, came to India, married here and settled in Punjab. Living here since past many years, he is disappointed with the current politicians of Punjab who, according to him, have completely diverted from the path shown by the Gurus. Darshan Singh Rudel, 57, a French national, earlier known as Michael Rudel, had ...

New York, USA: A man accused of pulling the beard of a Sikh professor before a group of young men who had called the professor “Osama” and a “terrorist” attacked him, has been arrested and charged with a hate crime, police said Saturday. Christian Morales, 20, was charged with aggravated harassment in connection with September’s attack on Columbia University professor Prabhjot ...

Ludhiana, Punjab: Books on the lives of Panj Pyare—the five beloved ones, who offered to sacrifice their heads and were later baptised as the first members of the Khalsa, have been penned by Beant Singh. The writer said although several books and “granths” have been written on the five beloved ones, his books were written after 10 years of extensive research. ...