because the truth needs to be told
For the last six months, farmers from Punjab and Haryana are on the roads bordering India’s capital city Delhi. Recently, ace Punjabi activist-journalist Hamir Singh was out on the road, as is often his wont, meeting some of the characters in this farmers’ agi... More »
On 1 May 2021, The World Sikh News decided to take up the cause of 400 Prisoners of Conscience as a commitment on the occasion of the 400th Birth anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur. India’s Supreme court, UN Secretary-General and the UN Human Rights Commissione... More »
Three years ago, to this day, on 28 May 2018, thirteen innocent Tamil protestors were killed in a police firing at the Sterlite plant in Thoothukudi. Three years on, the protests continue even today, with a Satyagraha by the Anti-Sterlite Protest Movement. Bac... More »
The demise of a Gurubhai who was a Gurmukh leaves behind a legacy that his family and associates have the ominous duty to live by. Veer Jaspal Singh passed on that legacy to hundreds of students and some of them are already holding on to the baton. Living the ... More »
Why SELECTIVE SILENCE about citizen-led fact-finding missions has a role in discourse? When an Indian Express columnist chooses to be dishonest blacking out what is too well known and the editors look the other way, then the publication does injustice to the v... More »
The use of a small Kirpan by a child in a school in Sydney, who has since been arrested and charged, has resulted in the New South Wales Premier and his education minister banning the wearing of Kirpans in schools. Sikhs bodies from the Shiromani Gurdwara Parb... More »
Just as the month of June brings pain and pride to the Sikh nation, so does the month of May to the Tamils across the world. It comes as a deep relief to any affected nationality when stalwarts of another nation stand up for them. Last week, a Member of the P... More »
Senior journalist and television anchor SP Singh, well known to the Punjabi readers for his weekly column, Likhtum BaDaleel in Punjabi Tribune, recently wrote about the pandemic-impacted political scenario in India, as seen through the prism of Trump’s America... More »
S P Singh is a senior journalist who knows where the shoe pinches but hasn’t mustered up enough courage to hurl one at so many deserving faces he has come across in a quarter-century of journalism. Hence, this tribute, remembering and decoding the one act of J... More »
Indians are dying, some 4000 plus every day. Life-saving equipment is lying in warehouses of the world and even in India. Oxygen is still a scarce commodity. The Supreme Court of India has set up an Oxygen Task Force, clearly saying that the government has fai... More »
As India hurtles down the deathly path, its breathless people bang on the doors of hospitals, and hospitals send SOS messages to political executive, shrieking about falling Oxygen supply levels, the entire debate has come to be focussed on fixing the Oxygen s... More »
What does it take to be a Shesh Narayan Singh? Decades of hard work, honesty and humility. Today, we lost him to Covid19, as we have many others in the last few weeks. Ace journalist SP Singh pays a humble first-person tribute acknowledging his diligence, scho... More »