Ac­tivist Vasu Prim­lani in an emo­tional video, placed here, has ex­pressed grat­i­tude to the Sikh peo­ple for their ex­em­plary con­tri­bu­tion. From In­di­ra­pu­ram, Gazi­abad, near Delhi to var­i­ous Gur­d­waras in Delhi -his­toric and Singh Sab­has dot­ting the Na­tional Cap­i­tal Re­gion of Delhi, in­di­vid­u­ally and col­lec­tively, with mea­gre re­sources of money and ma­te­r­ial, the Sikh com­mu­nity is madly en­gaged in pro­vid­ing suc­cour and re­lief to every needy per­son -man and woman, rich and poor, with no dis­crim­i­na­tion of caste, colour, re­li­gion and re­gion.  The Delhi Sikh Gur­d­wara Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee and many other Gur­d­waras have opened all empty space -halls, park­ing lots, grounds -every inch of space has been con­verted into Com­mu­nity Cen­tres dis­trib­ut­ing Oxy­gen Lan­gar.  Across In­dia, Sikh ac­tivists and Gur­d­waras from Mum­bai to Pan­vel to Kan­pur to Luc­know to Shil­long to Kolkatta to Ranchi, with as many cylin­ders as they can man­age are or­gan­is­ing Oxy­gen dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tres.

AS THE GOV­ERN­MENT OF IN­DIA and all state gov­ern­ments have failed to­tally to rise up to the oc­ca­sion in this hour of dire need, with mount­ing deaths all around, In­di­ans from all across the coun­try, in­clud­ing main­stream satel­lite chan­nels are ac­knowl­edg­ing the self­less ser­vice of the Sikh com­mu­nity.

In­dia is go­ing through one of the great­est dis­as­ters in its his­tory. Every In­dian has to fend for him­self or her­self for oxy­gen, for food, to cre­mate our daily mem­bers. We are locked in our homes but Sikhs are on the streets.

Not just Oxy­gen Lan­gar, Sikh ac­tivists are peace­fully bury­ing the dead and cre­at­ing tens of bod­ies every day as the state fa­cil­i­ties for cre­mat­ing the dead have col­lapsed.

How des­per­ate is the sit­u­a­tion can be gauged from this des­per­ate re­mark by a pa­tien­t’s rel­a­tive, “We never thought the mean­ing for Aat­manirb­har Bharat will mean that each and every fam­ily which af­fected by this deadly In­di­anised ver­sion of COVID will have to be ‘Aat­manirb­har’ and not be ‘Nirb­har’ on the in­sti­tu­tion we put in power.”

A young Sikh ac­tivist in Delhi is dis­trib­ut­ing Oxy­gen cans in Delhi for emer­gency re­lief till an Oxy­gen cylin­der is arranged.

All groups par­tic­i­pat­ing in the DS­GMC elec­tions -Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Badal, Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Delhi, Jago party and other groups have put the DS­GMC elec­tions be­yond them and are or­gan­is­ing makeshift hos­pi­tals and dis­tri­b­u­tion of Lan­gar.

The Guru Tegh Ba­hadur Rail­way sta­tion on the Cen­tral Rail­way lo­cal net­work in Mum­bai has been be­decked in solemn cel­e­bra­tion of the 400th birth an­niver­sary of the Ninth Mas­ter -Guru Tegh Ba­hadur.

The Wash­ing­ton Post has nar­rated the sto­ries of how faith groups have taken over while the state ad­min­is­tra­tion has col­lapsed to serve COVID19 pa­tients and their fam­i­lies.

Non-gov­ern­men­tal groups and phil­an­thropists, ir­re­spec­tive of their re­li­gious faith are scur­ry­ing to Gur­d­waras and Sikh in­sti­tu­tions to make vol­un­tary con­tri­bu­tions and as­sist their cam­paigns in any which way they can.

A shop­keeper in In­di­ra­pu­ram, Gazi­abad, to whose house the Gur­d­wara vol­un­teers pro­vided food at their doorstep, gra­ciously said on Face­book, “I salute you and in case God gives me birth as a hu­man be­ing again, I would like to be born in a Sikh fam­ily.”

Ac­tivist Vasu Prim­lani has put to­gether an emo­tional video ex­press­ing grat­i­tude to the Sikh peo­ple for their ex­em­plary con­tri­bu­tion. In her voice choked with grace and tears rolling down her cheeks, she ac­knowl­edges “Sar­dar Ji.”

Thank you Vasu Prim­lani for say­ing Thank you to the Sikhs. Your words are our strength and mo­ti­va­tion.  May your words con­tinue to in­spire many more to serve hu­man­ity, not only in these times of dis­tress and dis­ease but even dur­ing easy times.