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Feeling the Power: A non-Sikh visits the Golden Temple

March 3, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Kristy Robinson, of the Yahoo! Contributor Network, describes her visit to Darbar Sahib (aka “the Golden Temple”, the heart of Sikhism) in Amritsar, India:    Still uncertain of what the point was in coming to a place that none of us believed in I crept on with my host family surrounding me to keep unruly Indians from putting their hands where they need not be. It took about an hour to reach the inside of the temple and I was not prepared […]

Categories: Interfaith, Reflections • Tags: Amritsar, Darbar Sahib, Golden Temple, Harmandir Sahib, Kristy Robinson

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Top 5 Sikh American Stories of 2010

January 4, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Happy New Year! The end of 2010 has spawned all kinds of retrospectives on that year, mostly in the form of “Top 10” lists of various categories.  An interesting exercise is to consider what were the top five stories related to Sikh Americans during 2010. Why the top five and not the top ten?  The number five has a special significance to Sikhs: Sikhism originated in Punjab (now in India and Pakistan), which is the land of “five rivers” (“Punj” means “five”, “ab” means “river” or “water”). […]

Categories: Reflections • Tags: Airport security, AIT machines, Barack Obama, Bay Area Civil Rights Report 2010, Darbar Sahib, Golden Temple, Guru Singh, Harmandir Sahib, Kamaldeep Singh Kalsi, Outsourced, Sikh Coalition, Simran Lamba, Tejdeep Singh Rattan, Top 5 Sikh American Stories, TSA, US Army

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No. 9 on Time Magazine’s Top 10 Religion Stories of 2010

December 25, 2010 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

As we near the end of 2010, Time Magazine published their “Top 10 Everything of 2010“. Among the topics was the Top 10 Religion Stories of 2010, which predominantly featured stories related to Christianity or Islam (or sometimes Christianity vs. Islam).  The one exception came in at number nine on the list: Obama’s skipping Darbar Sahib (aka the Golden Temple) in Amritsar: The Golden Temple in Amritsar is the center of the Sikh religion and, at one point in the […]

Categories: Politics • Tags: Amritsar, Barack Obama, Darbar Sahib, Golden Temple, Harmandir Sahib, Islamophobia, Time Magazine

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