Sikh jour­nal­ism in Eng­lish is a rar­ity. Sikh jour­nal­ists in Eng­lish are a rare breed. The need for Sikh me­dia in the Eng­lish lan­guage is a long-felt one. There have been many at­tempts –some half-hearted, some se­ri­ous, but some­how, no me­dia in Eng­lish at a coun­try-level or in­ter­na­tional level has been able to sur­vive for long or make a sus­tained im­pact.

 Re­spond­ing to the dire ne­ces­sity to pro­vide news and views with a Sikh per­spec­tive, with­out hype and with­out call­ing names and stoop­ing to low lev­els –as seen to­day in many a Face­book post or Twit­ter­atti, The World Sikh News is re-born on this day –1 Chet 549 Nanakshahi -the first day of the Sikh cal­en­dar -Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar.

 The pre­sent The World Sikh News is per­haps the third avatar of the World Sikh News. One print edi­tion started way back, thirty years ago in Canada and the United States to pro­ject the Sikh per­spec­tive fol­low­ing June 1984 his­toric de­vel­op­ments in home­land Pun­jab and the Sikh Di­as­pora. Sub­se­quently in the early years of this cen­tury, it was restarted in Cal­i­for­nia both in print for­mat and on­line.

 Hav­ing been as­so­ci­ated with the US edi­tion as an ed­i­tor, it was a painful clo­sure nearly five years back. The itch to write and pre­sent a true Sikh per­spec­tive con­tin­ued but took a back-seat to hu­man rights, so­cial work and ed­u­ca­tion ac­tivism.

 De­vel­op­ments within the com­mu­nity –in the home­land and the Di­as­pora keep hap­pen­ing de­mand­ing a say. Not able to re­sist any fur­ther putting off a truth­ful per­spec­tive, we are happy to launch The World Sikh News web­site to pro­vide a Sikh per­spec­tive on sto­ries re­gional, na­tional and in­ter­na­tional which im­pact the Sikh world. We will not re­strict only to this. We will grad­u­ally move to pre­sent views on global events which af­fect our lives and times.

 The World Sikh News will per­ceive events through the prism of the faith com­mu­nity so that the com­mu­nity is proud of the me­dia and the me­dia keeps faith with the faith com­mu­nity. The World Sikh News team has a vi­sion to build a world-class me­dia, in­flu­enc­ing and build­ing the thought processes of the com­mu­nity and be­com­ing a sig­nif­i­cant and ef­fec­tive tool of in­ter­ven­tion­ist jour­nal­ism.

 We anx­iously await your feed­back, com­ments and more. 

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