The World Sikh News com­pletes one year to­day and re­it­er­ates com­mit­ment to stay stead­fast. WSN is not in the race of Break­ing News. WSN in the bat­tle of Break­ing Views. WSN will not lose fo­cus and stay de­ter­mined, “be­cause the truth needs to be told.”

The World Sikh News jour­ney started this day one year ago on the eve of the Nanakshahi New Year. This one year has been a year of com­mit­ment and de­ter­mi­na­tion to pro­ject the Sikh view­point chal­leng­ing the es­tab­lished opin­ion of in­di­vid­u­als, colum­nists, coun­tries and groups dis­in­clined to dis­sent and counter-opin­ion. The World Sikh News thanks all its read­ers, tech­ni­cal team, colum­nists and the ed­i­to­r­ial team for be­ing part of the jour­ney.

The World Sikh News is the new star on the hori­zon of Sikh jour­nal­ism and we are fo­cussed to prove the quip, “the Sikhs do not have their own me­dia” wrong. We will slowly but steadily tra­verse the long walk and make the world lis­ten to Sikh opin­ion on is­sues and po­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ments. The day will come too soon when the WSN will be a force to reckon with.

“The World Sikh News is the new star on the hori­zon of Sikh jour­nal­ism and we are fo­cussed to prove the quip, “the Sikhs do not have their own me­dia” wrong. ”

Dur­ing the course of the year, we brought forth the di­choto­mous  ap­proach to­wards pol­i­tics and re­li­gion by the Delhi Sikh Gur­d­wara Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee and the Shi­ro­mani Gur­d­wara Par­band­hak Com­mit­tee, ques­tioned the si­lence of the po­lit­i­cal par­ties in Pun­jab over hu­man rights vi­o­la­tions in the state, de­nounced the anti-Sikh ap­proach of the ed­i­tor of the Eng­lish daily Tri­bune, high­lighted the blas­phe­mous car­toon of the Hin­dus­tan Times, ex­posed the bias of colum­nists like Shekhar Gupta and the ut­ter bias of the Re­pub­lic TV, ex­pressed sol­i­dar­ity with the case of the miss­ing Niger­ian girls, con­tested the ap­proach of the Cen­tral Board of Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion re­gard­ing the wear­ing of Sikh sym­bols by stu­dents ap­pear­ing for ex­ams, ap­plauded the cin­e­matic ef­fort The Black Prince, cam­paigned for the Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar in its pure form, joined the cam­paign for a Na­tional Sikh War Memo­r­ial in Lon­don and cel­e­brated the role of Sikh achiev­ers across the Pun­jab and the Sikh Di­as­pora. The Justin Trudeau saga in the last month was one our high points when we took the lead to counter the Sikho­pho­bia of the In­dian state. We even had a rare print ver­sion of the World Sikh News for the Sikhs in South East Asia, es­pe­cially In­done­sian Sikhs.

“The WSN jour­ney will soon go live with the WSN Views Chan­nel -the first of its kind fo­rum in the Eng­lish lan­guage, break­ing the bar­rier which seg­re­gates the Sikhs from the world and also bring­ing the world nearer to the Sikhs. ”

There were a few misses, but they were more by de­fault than by choice. The com­ing years will see that such misses are rare. We will be more alert and alive on so­cial me­dia plat­forms not to dis­en­gage read­ers through a bar­rage of news, but en­gage the dis­cern­ing reader with views and opin­ion on a va­ri­ety of top­ics. There will be vi­brant sec­tions for women and chil­dren for is­sues di­rectly con­cern­ing them.

The World Sikh News in­vites you to join as read­ers, writ­ers, con­trib­u­tors and donors so that we can fear­lessly con­tinue the mis­sion to re­view, rebel and lead Sikh opin­ion in the Sikh world and the world that touches the Sikhs. We seek ded­i­cated read­ers, opin­ion-mak­ers and the con­sci­en­tious lead­ers to share our opin­ions, gen­er­ate a new body of thought and id­iom which will im­pact the in­ter­ests of the Sikh peo­ple across the world.

As we en­ter the sec­ond year of pub­li­ca­tion in this third av­tar of The World Sikh News, we are con­scious and aware of the legacy of the pub­li­ca­tion. The WSN jour­ney will soon go live with the WSN Views Chan­nel -the first of its kind fo­rum in the Eng­lish lan­guage, break­ing the bar­rier which seg­re­gates the Sikhs from the world and also bring­ing the world nearer to the Sikhs.

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As en­joined by the Ninth Mas­ter Guru Tegh Ba­hadar Ji, “frighten none and fear none” will al­ways be our bench­mark. We are not in the race of Break­ing News. We are in the bat­tle of Break­ing Views. WSN will not lose fo­cus and stay de­ter­mined, “be­cause the truth needs to be told.”