because the truth needs to be told
The test of leadership is always in difficult times. Delhi government seems to be teetering towards a breakdown amidst the 6-day lockdown. Health systems have collapsed and individuals are making desperate arrangements for oxygen cylinders and life-saving dru... More »
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee -DSGMC elections are scheduled for Sunday, 25 April 2021 whilst there is an official weekend lockdown on that day. Facebook posts, videos and voices of protest by the Delhi Sangat are growing steadily in the last 72... More »
Deeply perturbed by the impartial, one-sided public utterances, administrative actions and political threats for the past nearly two years by the members of the High Level Committee formed by the Meghalaya government, actually notified only for suggestions and... More »
After two years of the Justice Sen order of the High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong, ordering status quo ante in the premises and lives of the poor Sikhs residing in the Bara Bazar area of Shillong for the last two centuries and more, the government of Meghala... More »
The blunt fangs of the gargantuan BJP are showing in West Bengal, Assam and Tripura. With the BJP cadres forcing “Jai Shri Ram”, down the throats of the people of West Bengal, in their zeal to upset the ruling Trinamool Congress Party of Mamta Banerjee, the BJ... More »
On 23 March, despite India’s abstention from voting on the UNHRC resolution on accountability of Sri Lanka for its gross human rights abuse of Eelam Tamil rights, the resolution was adopted in a deep embarrassment to Sri Lanka. Chennai-based Tamil National Mov... More »
Punjab’s foremost university, and only the second in the world to have been named after a language, Punjabi University, Patiala, is in dire straits. For a university that could single handedly claim to have looked after the entire Malwa belt of Punjab, it is s... More »
Sikh organisations in homeland Punjab and the Sikh Diaspora worldwide are using letter diplomacy to Prime Ministers, Presidents and parliamentarians to engage discussion on substantive issues affecting the lives and human rights. While the farmers’ issue has ... More »
At a time when the country is grappling with core issues — State of Agriculture and State of Farmers — and a massive agitation is attracting global attention, the Union Budget was a god-sent opportunity for the federal government to underline its intent toward... More »
In a few hours from now, three Gurdwaras in California and three in Birmingham will host the Saka Nakodar painting on the walls of their Gurdwara Museums. A glance at the painting and you would be prompted to ask, “What a tragedy? Who painted it? The World Sik... More »
It is a standard stratagem deployed by regimes like an SOP – when a movement seems spinning out of its control, tactics and capacity to torpedo, it starts introducing a lot of white noise into it. White Noise is a concept very familiar to students of mass comm... More »
As the images and live videos of human rights violations by the goons of the Bharatiya Janata Party, with full back-up, cover and complicity of the Delhi Police reach the international community, Sikhs worldwide and human rights defenders raise their deep conc... More »