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Picture of the Day: Hola Mohalla Parade in Livingston, CA

March 26, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

“This is not only for our benefit, (and) the Sikh community, but it’s also for our neighbors,” Samara said. “In the beginning we didn’t know what people were going to make out of this. But now everyone knows what it’s about. And now you see a lot of non-Sikhs, too.” — Gurpal Samra talks about yesterday’s Hola Mohalla (a celebration of the Sikh martial spirit) procession in Livingston, California.  The full article and additional photos are available on the Merced […]

Categories: Events, Sikhism • Tags: California, Gurpal Samra, Hola Mohalla, Livingston

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Valarie Kaur’s “10 Sikh Women You Should Know and Why You Should Know Them”

March 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

We Sikhs talk a great talk about women’s equality, but we are steeped in patriarchal culture that makes us complicit in the erasure of women, past and present. Even the few famous women in history are defined in relation to their men. Their full contributions as thinkers, poets, warriors, advocates unto themselves are eclipsed by the men they supported. The real life consequence? Sikh girls today are told they’re fully equal, and yet expected to carry out traditional subservient gender […]

Categories: Reflections, Sikhism • Tags: Huffington Post, Sikholars, Valarie Kaur, Women in Sikhism

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Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana and the indomitable Sikh spirit

March 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

What manliness you have shown by extinguishing a few sparks. You have made the fire brighter and more furious. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, in Zafarnama – his letter to the Mughal emperor of India in 1705. Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana is scheduled to be hanged on March 31 for his role in the 1995 assassination of Beant Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab at that time. Balwant Singh’s story is available all over the web, but as a short synopsis, I […]

Categories: News Bits, Sikhism • Tags: Balwant Singh Rajoana, Beant Singh, Bhagat Singh, Guru Gobind Singh, Punjab

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A review of Sikh history comics from sikhcomics.com

February 6, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Most of my early education in Sikh history came from comic books, namely those published by Amar Chitra Katha, based in India.  My father purchased every title related to Sikhism that was released by this company — covering the stories of the Sikh Gurus to those of Sikh legends and heroes —  and I loved reading and re-reading these comic books until I knew the stories by heart. It was a great introduction to Sikhism that captured my imagination.  As […]

Categories: Art, Resources, Sikhism • Tags: Amar Chitra Katha, Baba Deep Singh, Battle of Saragarhi, Daljeet Singh Sidhu, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Gyan Khand Media, Sikh Comics

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A response and retort to “Jain Dharma Goes Beyond Religion” on the Huffington Post

November 29, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Pankaj Jain, on the Huffington Post, wrote recently about the difference between the faiths he categorizes as the “dharma” traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism) and the Abrahamic “religions” – particularly Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Unfortunately, the way in which Jain compares the two categories is problematic, and in the process, the article misrepresents Sikhism. For a discussion on what “dharma” means in the Sikh context, see a recent post put up for discussion at sikhchic.com. Below, I will extract […]

Categories: Interfaith, Sikhism • Tags: Buddhism, Christianity, Huffington Post, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Pankaj Jain, Sikh, Sikhism

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Guru Nanak, Muslims, and America

November 23, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

I often reflect on the parallels between Sikh philosophy and that which inspired the founding of America. Dylan Kaplan writes in the Washington Post about his experience visiting a Gurdwara in Rockville, Maryland during celebrations for Guru Nanak’s birthday, and observes the same: How many countries in the world have a Sikh community that is so committed to bringing different people together that they would invite a Pakistani Muslim to speak on their most religious holiday? The founding fathers would […]

Categories: News Bits, Reflections, Sikhism • Tags: Bhai Bala, Bhai Mardana, Dylan Kaplan, Guru Nanak, Maryland, Muslim, Rockville

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President Obama commemorates birth of Guru Nanak

November 10, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Today, Sikhs across the world are celebrating the birth of Guru Nanak (the founder of Sikhism and the first in a line of ten Sikh Gurus in human form), who was born in 1469.  The Guru of the Sikhs today is the Sikh holy book called the Guru Granth Sahib, which contains over 970 of Guru Nanak’s verses. The religion that sprouted from his following became Sikhism, but Guru Nanak is highly regarded among Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist communities as […]

Categories: Events, Politics, Sikhism • Tags: Barack Obama, Guru Nanak, White House

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Guru Hargobind & Bandi Chorh Divas (photo & artwork: Inkquisitive Illustration)

Happy Bandhi Chorh Divas!

October 25, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Today marks Diwali, the “festival of lights”, which is celebrated all over India (the Huffington Post queries whether Diwali’s growing popularity should make it the next new American holiday).  Diwali has its origins in the Hindu tradition, however it has a different historical significance for Sikhs, who on this day celebrate Bandhi Chorh Divas. On this day, Sikhs celebrate the release of Sikhism’s sixth Guru, Guru Hargobind, from prison in 1619.  He also secured the release of 52 other Indian princes with his own (as described on this blog before). […]

Categories: Art, Events, Picture of the Day, Sikhism • Tags: Bandi Chhorh Divas, Diwali, Guru Hargobind, Huffington Post, Inkquisitive Illustrations

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Andrew Bowen’s last day as a Sikh

October 6, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

So here we are at the end. I’m told that, while I will not go on looking like a Sikh, a Sikh is one who searches for truth and meditates of the divine in all. In reality then, even though today I shave the lion’s mane (unshorn hair) of the Kesh I wore so proudly, I am still one of them in spirit. In fact, that description sounds a lot like many of us, doesn’t it? We are so much […]

Categories: Interfaith, Reflections, Sikhism • Tags: Andrew Bowen, Project Conversion 12, Religion and Spirituality

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