As the SGPC continues to draw flak from Sikh circles for rushing to dismantle heritage structures, The Sikh Collective has started an online petition at change.org addressed to the SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur asking…
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Conservation of art, architecture, archaeology, historical archives, heritage and legacy runs through his veins. There are very few such souls in Punjab and India. He has been squirming on his bed for the last three…
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Despite losing heritage buildings, social, religious and Sikh national archive material and artefacts over the decades, the apex Gurdwara management body of the Sikhs, also called the Sikh Parliament, has not learnt anything. There is…
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In the death of Dr Darshan Singh Tatla on 4th July in Birmingham, the academic field of Punjab and Sikh studies has lost an internationally reputed scholar of unique talent, commitment and achievements. If I…
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A star isn’t always someone who stares down at you from gigantic billboards. Someone who appears on a screen looks like your neighbour or relative, and quietly makes a place in your heart and hippocampus,…
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Conditioned only to read what is published, and not trained at all in reading what is not published, most of us are ill-equipped to read the headlines that do not appear in newspapers or in…
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While the Supreme Court of India today posed specific questions relating to the need for the sedition law, even after 75 years of independence, Sikh political body Dal Khalsa has said that while the step…
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With a brute majority in Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party is in a grand hurry to foist its divisive agenda and political tactics across the country. While announcing its new cabinet, the Narendra Modi government…
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As the elections to the DSGMC continue to be uncertain, there is growing interest among politicians, with the assumption that the Covid19 situation has eased. The latest to join the bandwagon is Shiromani Akali Dal…
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Residents of a Canadian village which recorded the country’s highest ever temperature, 49.6C (121.3F), have been forced to flee by a wildfire. The mayor of Lytton, British Columbia, ordered people to evacuate, saying flames had…
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