“If people have never attended before, expect something you’ve never witnessed,” said Gurpal Samra, organizer and Livingston city councilman. “Come and join us for free food and drink for everybody.” — Organizer Gurpal Samra invites the public to the Hola Mohalla parade this Sunday in Livingston, California.
Categories: Events • Tags: California, Hola Mohalla, Livingston
Today is the anniversary of Guru Har Rai becoming the seventh Guru of the Sikhs (this type of anniversary is called a Gurpurab) in 1644. Among the aspects of his legacy that Sikhs remember today was this Guru’s love for the natural world. In his honor, the organization EcoSikh launched Sikh Environment Day at this time last year, a movement to promote environmental consciousness and action in its preservation. Eco Sikh has continued this campaign in 2012 and by all […]
Categories: Events • Tags: EcoSikh, gurpurab, Guru Har Rai, Sikh Environment Day
A day after the Hindu festival of Holi, Sikhs around the world celebrate Hola Mohalla – an exhibition of the Sikh martial spirit. The center of this celebration is at Anandpur Sahib in Punjab, India: This custom originated in the time of Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708) who held the first march at Anandpur on Chet vadi 1, 1757 Bk (22nd February, 1701). Unlike Holi, when people playfully sprinkle colored powders, dry or mixed in water, on each other the Guru […]
Categories: Events, Picture of the Day • Tags: Anandpur Sahib, Hola Mohalla
In a previous post, I reflected on attending the Sikholars Sikh Graduate Student Conference at CSU East Bay in Hayward, California a few weeks ago. I commented on the first day’s presentations and panel discussions and now offer the same for the second day. As before, I will refer to the blog post on The Langar Hall that provided a recap of the conference and also to the papers that were presented this year made available on the Sikholars website […]
Categories: Events, Reflections • Tags: Anand Karaj, Ashveer Singh, bhangra, Bindy Kaur, California State University East Bay, femininity, Gurpreet Sehra, Hindu Marriage Act, Jakara Movement, Kirpa Kaur, Loveleen Kaur, masculinity, racialization, Sabharwal Chair of Punjabi and Sikh Studies, Sikh art, Sikholars, Women in Sikhism
This past weekend, I attended the third annual Sikholars Sikh Graduate Student Conference at California State University East Bay, held by Jakara Movement, the CSU East Bay Ethnic Studies Department and the Sabharwal Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies at CSU East Bay. I had also attended the previous conferences in 2010 and 2011. I’ve enjoyed all three of these meetings of the mind immensely, and I believe the 2012 iteration was a raising of the bar in the discourse it […]
Categories: Events, Reflections • Tags: 1947 Partition Archive, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Bandana Kaur, bhangra, biodiversity, California State University East Bay, Green Revolution, Guneeta Kaur Bhalla, Harjant Gill, Harpreet Neelam, Jakara Movement, Jasmine Singh, Kiran Preet Kaur, Neelamjit Dhillon, partaal, racialization, Roots of Love, Sabharwal Chair of Punjabi and Sikh Studies, Sikh art, Sikholars, Title VII
As a Sikh child who grew up in the west, my knowledge and experience with Sikh history came mostly through stories and books. Aside from occasional visits to India, what I knew and saw of Sikh history was predominantly left to my imagination that provided to me a visual to the words I read or the static pictures I saw. Sometimes, I wonder if it’s this almost theoretical experience that results in the dissociation many Sikh youth feel from their […]
Categories: Art, Events • Tags: Asian Art Museum, Fresno, Fresno Art Museum, Maharaja: The Splendor of India's Royal Courts, San Francisco, Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab, Smithsonian Institution
From February 17-19, 2012, graduate students and experts in their fields will be assembling at California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California as part of Sikholars: Sikh Graduate Student Conference to present their studies on topics related to Sikhs and Sikhism. According to the organizers of the conference: The Sikholars: Sikh Graduate Student Conference was born out of repeated conversations with graduate students about the need for a collaborative effort to bring various expertises together to identify, analyze, and support […]
Categories: Events • Tags: California, California State University, CSU East Bay, Sikh Graduate Student Conference, Sikhism, Sikholars
Mystic, poet, warrior, polymath Guru Gobind Singh was truly a Renaissance man, a man nonpareil. — On the Huffington Post, Ravinder Singh Taneja reflects on the amazing life and legacy of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth (and last in human form) Guru of the Sikhs. Sikhs around the world are celebrating his birth on this day in 1666. The impact of Guru Gobind Singh on Sikhs and Sikhism cannot be overestimated. Happy Gurpurab!
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In the United States, Veterans Day has been commemorated in one way or another on November 11 of each year since the end of World War I in 1918: In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, […]
Categories: Events • Tags: Adolf Hitler, Bhagat Singh Thind, Free India Legion, Subhas Chandra Bose, Veterans Day, World War I, World War II
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