because the truth needs to be told
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, is also a star. Sr Journalist SP Singh pays a very pers... More »
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 declared the home address of Union Ministe... More »
The squeeze is getting tighter by the day. NDTV’s campaign to eulogise Manjinder Singh Sirsa as a larger-than-life Sewadar of the Sikh community will not be able to save his image of being a corrupt president, the likes of which the DSGMC has not seen before. ... More »
ਇੱਕ ਇਹੋ ਜਿਹੇ ਸਮੇਂ ਜਦੋਂ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਭਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਪੁਨਰ ਜਾਗ੍ਰਿਤੀ ਵਾਲਾ ਅੰਦੋਲਨ ਚੱਲ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੋਵੇ, ਲੜਾਈ ਹੋਂਦ ਦੀ ਹੋਵੇ, ਖਿੱਤੇ ਨੇ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦੇ ਤਖ਼ਤ ਨਾਲ ਟੱਕਰ ਲਈ ਹੋਵੇ ਤਾਂ ਕੀ ਇਹ ਸਿਆਸੀ ਪਾਰਟੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਜ਼ੇਬ ਦੇਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਉਹ ਸਿਆਸਤ ਦੇ ਸਵਾਲਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਸ ਹੱਦ ਤਕ ਮਨਫ਼ੀ ਕਰ ਦੇਣ ਕਿ ਕੋਈ ਨਾਰਾਜ਼ ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟਰ ਤੋਂ ਸਿਆਸਤੀ... More »
Injustice to Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy will remain as an indelible blot on the Indian justice system and the gross political injustice to dissidents by the Indian state machinery. Swamy died on a ventilator while in judicial custody at a hospital in Mumbai... More »
After nearly two years of snatching the full state status from J & K, today, Indian PM Narendra Modi is meeting Kashmiri leadership “without an agenda” and the Kashmir leadership wants to discuss “restoration of Article 370.” The mainstream media feeds us as t... More »
Under pressure from the international community to conduct polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the government of India is plotting demographic change, delimitation and gerrymandering. In August 2019, it suddenly dropped the bombshell of converting Jammu and Kashmir in... More »
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 »