because the truth needs to be told
The highest temporal seat of the Sikhs -Akal Takht Sahib, opposite the Darbar Sahib, Amritsar is at the heart of the Sikh religio-political dialogue and its unique status in Sikh theology brings it into the focus of Indo-Sikh relations, especially in the first... More »
With an increasing number of deaths around the world due to Covid, death is an enforced topic of concern and discussion homes to political offices to the statistics departments of governments. Religious people and spiritual practitioners resort to a variety of... More »
As the Sikh community celebrates the 400th Birth anniversary of the Ninth Master -Guru Tegh Bahadur, spiritually-inclined chronicler Bhupinder Singh recounts the visits of Guru Sahib to Assam. This is a little less known fact and historians disagree on certain... More »
Does the title produce a sense of bewilderment? The famous poet and actor Harindranath Chattopadhyay, best remembered for his role as a family patriarch in the 1972 Bollywood classic Bawarchi of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, named Bhai Vir Singh, ‘The Sixth River of P... More »
This is the legend of the Great Liberator from the Earthly Prison and the Prison of the Rib Cage. As India celebrates Diwali, Sikhs recall the day as “Bandi Chorr Diwas” -the day of liberation coinciding with the release of the Sixth Master -Guru Hargobind Sah... More »
Guru Gobind Singh’s describes the spiritual bliss obtained in the remembrance of the Ninth Master Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib. Nine treasures which will be showered on the person. In our Ardas -supplication to God and Guru, every morning and evening and whenever, ... More »
This is a rarity in Guru Granth Sahib that you must know. Guru Amar Das breathed his last at 95 years, in Goindwal Sahib, on 1 September 1574 and the Bani of Ramkali Sadd in Guru Granth Sahib provides vital historical details. The Shabad of Ramkali Sadd, givin... More »
Recently, Indian and Pakistan media and Sikh social media platforms were inundated with news of threat by one Sohail Butt Attari of Lahore to close the historic Gurdwara Shaheed Ganj and open a mosque there. Bhupinder Singh who visited there last year places t... More »
The founder of Sikhism -Guru Nanak lent unique meaning to the alphabet in his own inimitable style, which was God-ordained and God-gifted. How else could one formulate the meaning of each letter of the alphabet? What a beauty is this Patti Likhi revealed a gro... More »
On the occasion of the martyrdom day of Bhai Taru Singh, the spiritually inclined author Bhupinder Singh Houston yearns for a rekindling of the spirit of Sikhism by keeping unshorn hair and remaining steadfast to the commitment to one’s faith as challenges of ... More »
Bhagat Kabir was a man of God – a weaver by profession, who weaved the praise of God and wisdom through his magical metaphors and allegories. The Bhakti movement of the 16th century produced saint-poets who sang praises of God Almighty in their unique styles a... More »
On 19 June 1862 slavery was abolished in the territories of the United States. On the eve of the day, the US officially abolished slavery, Houston resident and thinker Bhupinder Singh says, ‘We have come a long way since then. Yet, as the events of the last mo... More »