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  5. Sakhi On Moosan, Suman, Bhai Sadhu And Roop Chand In Pachmi Parkash, Help!

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    Vahegurooo Je Ka Khalsa Vahegurooo Je Ke Fateh :)

    Daas was reading through PACHMI PARKASH, available here for those that don't know: PACHMI PARKASH and came across the following:

    "such as, when for the Fifth Guru Maharaj Ji's beautiful blessings, Moosan and Suman had spoken

    the truth and in return their own father with his own hands beheaded them. Also in the

    land of Malvaa when Bhai Sadhu and Roop Chand in the scorching heat of the

    summer months, had stuck by their word that every thing special they have shall be

    first given to Dhan Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji Maharaj first, and in that scorching heat

    although suffering from dehydration they waited for Guru Ji to first come and have

    the sweet cool water before them. So Guru Ji overwhelmed with their love traveled

    thirty miles to save them from dying of thirst and dehydration and asked for water

    from them, after which they drank, Guru Ji blessed them endlessly for their sincere

    love. Baba Ji explained that this could still happen today as long as ones love for the Lord is true."

    Does any body know of any source which has more details for the above Sakhi's about Moosan, Suman, Bhai Sadhu and Roop Chand on the net or otherwise?

    Thank you for your time ji in reading this.

    Vahegurooo....

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  12. Immortal Productions New Album Chaurasi 84 Out July 5th

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    Remember the money that goes from the cd goes back straight into parchaar- parchaar that is blatently seen accross the uk, be it literature, more cds, tops, societies, kids camp or stuff in india - please try TO PURCHASE a copy and support the cause, if everyone downloaded it then the SEVA would be CUT DOWN due to lack of money. . . so i hope everyone purchases a copy

    THE LYRICS OF THE CD ARE TOTALLY WICKED AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT.

    Picked up a copy on Sun and couldn't agree any more. Solid production and an album that has something in it for everyone :p

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  13. One Of The 7/7 Bombers Sister A Sikh?

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    WJKKWJKF

    As most of you know today is the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings that killed 52 innocent people. whilst reading in wikipedia about one of the bombers from leeds called Hasib Hussein it says that his sister converted to sikhism and changed her name to Alia Kaur

    i didn't know this does anyone have any further information on this? did she convert for love?

    etc etc

    :lol: didn't know it was the anniversary... but thanks :p

    A little bit more info here in the converts to Sikhi section: http://www.muslim2sikh.co.nr/

    Leeds, Alia Kaur is the sister of 7/7 London suicide

    bomber Hasib Hussain. Kaur embraced the

    Sikh way of life in the late 1990s. Her strict Muslim

    family disowned her after discovering about

    her conversion.

    N those who hate 'Muslae' here, the list is to long to mention any names, :D ... you may take some pleasure in reading the replies from 'Muslim' girls dating 'Sikh' guys at the bottom...

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  14. Friend Of The Sikhs Ram Narayan Kumar Passes Away

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    Another friend of the Sikhs shares a few words:

    Once again taken from:

    http://www.worldsikhnews.com/1%20July%2020...ired%20Soul.htm

    Three days after news of his death shocked the civil society, Indian media is yet to even publish a preliminary report about Human Rights activist par excellence, Ram Narayan Kumar. Only a couple of newspapers in Punjab cared to carry the news as late as on July 2. Only Kumar himself would not have been shocked. It just proved the point he held all through. India's polity, media, civil society have to do much more to cross over to the other side called civilization.

    The WSN presents, humbly and proudly, both at the same time, this tribute and personal remembrance by Cynthia Keppley Mahmood, celebrated scholar on Sikh issues and one of Kumar's co-travellers on the path to seek an egalitarian world. Mahmood is the celebrated author of many a book on the Sikh struggle and is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Senior Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, United States. This piece about a "great man, true friend, inspired soul" is exclusive to the World Sikh News

    On the Passing of a Great Man, True Friend, Inspired Soul

    Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

    Amidst the hullaballoo over pop star Michael Jackson, a sudden, lightening-bolt of a news flash. Can it be that Ram Narayan Kumar's flame has been extinguished, that from white to black, from day to night, he so shockingly suddenly no longer walks among us? We who were privileged to know his non-stop passion for justice, his persistent love for all humans, and his full-throated zeal for equality and civil rights can barely imagine a world without him. Even those with whom he argued would acknowledge: in a world in which so many are content to float as mere observers, mere consumers, as merely pedestrian in their aims and impacts, Ram was a presence. If one were in an arena in which he worked or lived, he was un-ignorable. He was always fully there, fully committed, and he prompted others to step into that rushing, living stream as well.

    I won't recount, here, Kumar's history of human rights work and publications, done ably by many others. Let me write, rather more personally, of how I knew him (oh! the strangeness of that past tense!) and of some of the things I knew about him that have left an indelible print in my own life story.

    I met Ram during the course of the work on disappearances and cremations in Punjab. By then he'd already worked passionately on other issues around social justice in India: the Bhopal Union Carbide disaster, miner's rights, the abrogation of democracy during the Emergency. Ram Narayan Kumar had been born into a Brahminic family; not only that but into a lineage that would slate him for religious leadership. He grew up studying the Vedas, living a spare and clean life in his father's spiritual community. But at a given point in his adolescence, he publicly rejected the janeu and the caste system it supports, turning then to secular education to complement his Sanskritic youth.

    Though Kumar's education and wide-ranging reading led him eventually to a Marxist orientation, I've often thought that his childhood discipline must have been critical to shaping the man he became – the man he was able to become. As everyone around him knew, he was indefatigable. He worked through glaring heat, pulsating monsoon rains, dark electricity-free nights, on public buses, in humble village dwellings – as well as in the more comfortable halls of Oxford (where he was a Reuters Human Rights Fellow) and Columbia (where we spoke together at one of the first public announcements of the Punjab disappearances and cremations findings. Working with the Sikhs to investigate the disappearance of Jaswant Singh Khalra and, it turned out, thousands more young women and men of Amritsar district, Punjab, sometimes drove Kumar crazy. A humble man, he was careful not to claim individual credit for what was the work of an entire committee, the CCDP (Coordinating Committee for Disappearances in Punjab). But it was he who, most aware of international human rights reporting standards, designed the form that was used to acquire, record and store case data; it was he who trained the loyal and hard-working field investigators who slogged through the door-to-door, village-to-village collection of information.

    As things go in Punjab, there was lots of in-fighting, lots of haggling back and forth, which I as an outsider watched lamely from afar. What I could do was be a sounding-board, a friend to whom Namu could vent his frustrations and an international face for the CCDP. Eventually, Namu and I retreated to the Maine woods, where we together wrote the first [electronic] report on the investigations, "Disappearances and Impunity in Punjab" that became the basis for the later book Reduced to Ashes.

    Those were special days of relative quiet and lack of hurry that I now especially cherish, working on the report into the night then sipping drinks by candlelight on our back deck, all the stars of the Milky Way unfurled above. I don't imagine Ram had very many times like this, in his driving, impassioned life. He had to leave his beloved wife Gertie, a neurologist, back in Austria for months on end as he pursued his work, which she unfailingly supported financially and morally. That can't have been easy, to live like that for a lifetime. That too when, at times, the more ardently Khalistani of the Sikhs started accusing him of being a RAW agent – why else would a Hindu (Brahmin at that) be so deeply involved in Sikh rights, at risk of his own freedom and indeed, his life? (Had they forgotten Guru Tegh Bahadur?).

    He used to tell me, at these moments, that he fought for all those tens of thousands of Sikhs who had been "disappeared," who had already gone from this earth as ashes up in smoke, those who had and have no voices in the history being written about this time and this place. Sometimes the currently living Sikhs drove him crazy and he'd say, "I'm doing this for those already dead, not for these ignorant _________." But in fact he loved them all, the simpler, the poorer, the more disadvantaged, these were the ones he lived to serve, even as some of them accused him of the worst crimes and tried to push him out of the defense of their own rights! Paradoxically, these events pushed Kumar even further to complete the work, to be certain that the powerful would be held accountable for the fractal chaos they had wrought in Punjab, for the pathology emerging in which every man suspected his brother and no one could effectively raise the clarion call for revolutionary unity.

    Ram Narayan Kumar, the Hindu who gave up a privileged Brahminic position to serve besieged Sikhs who at times reviled him, was punished also by the Indian state, serving a total of what must have come to several years in India's prisons. I asked him how he got through some of the hard times in these prisons, when even the minimal necessities for life were not provided. He told one very sweet story about nine cats he befriended at one location, and how he made it his mission to keep them alive. He would hoard the bits of food allocated to him and, starving himself, give them to the cats that came to his cell each day. In this self-sacrificing service to creatures more frail than he, Ram found more nourishment than in the meager rations doled out by the guards.

    Of course, other causes lured Kumar as well: Kashmir, and as we all know the latest was indigenous rights in the northeast. "Nothing human is alien to me," said Marx (following classical Greek philosophy), and surely Kumar was the embodiment of this ideal as he sought to better the land of his birth no matter which community or locale needed attention. Though I'm sure Delhi viewed him as more than faintly treasonous in his constant social and political critique, Kumar, like all the most passionate revolutionaries, actually yearned for the promise of India, yet unfulfilled in the vast inequalities with their toll of human suffering. He wanted India to be very much better than that. With others, comrades all, he demanded India be much better than it is, that it provide every one of its citizens air to breathe freely, enough food to eat, shelter, and dignity. Kumar never stopped for a moment of rest in his demand that India live up to its promise.

    Far away on another continent, I take heart in knowing with all certainty that the baton dropped by my friend Namu will be picked up by others – I'm sure has already been picked up and is being carried along speedily. The momentum of this movement for human rights, swelling up even as any single individual gives up this earthly existence, challenges those who would humiliate, beat down and destroy the lives of others for the sake of power or wealth to do the right thing, the most simple thing in the world – treat another as you would like to be treated.

    The divinity in me recognizes the divinity in you, Kumar learned from the tenderest age, perhaps the signal contribution of Hindu social teaching. The human being in me embraces the human being in you.

    Oh, I will miss your warmth! And I celebrate your life-well-lived!

    Let us pause, remember, then continue.

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  15. Boss Sikhi Camp!

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    Gurmukho, I've never been before too, only found about it recently. Looks fun and It's a whole week away from your parents!! :D

    :) On top of all that lol, its also a whole week with your True Father :p

    Let us know how it goes, may give it a shot next year.

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  18. Baba Balbir Singh Lamma Jattpura

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    the police have used the same story for when they arrested Parmjit Singh Dhadi and 2 others. that was done at badals bidding. does badal have any problem with Baba Balbir Singh?

    also is Baba Balbir Singh related to Baba Sukhchen Singh Lamma Jatpura wale?

    Badal got a problem with every sane thinking Gursikh. What a shame that they never break the habit of using the same old dirty tricks to stich up Singh's, these imbociles even use the same old RDX line.

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  19. Friend Of The Sikhs Ram Narayan Kumar Passes Away

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    This man risked his own life to get justice for the Sikhs. If I am not wrong, he was even banned from India, and lived between London and Austria. He died in his home in Kathmandu, Nepal. He was a human rights activist who exposed the Punjab government's and police's brutality against innocent Sikh youth.

    Ram Narayan Kumar's write up exposing the truth about Operation Bluestar: http://www.sikhreview.org/june2000/chronicle.htm

    Watch more videos here: http://www.punjabjustice.org/interviews.htm

    May Vaheguru bless his soul

    This is all true bhai sahib ji and he was banned from India more than once in his great life. His books are great reads just like Cynthia Mahmood's.

    Vaheguru

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  20. Friend Of The Sikhs Ram Narayan Kumar Passes Away

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    Another article about his death and unwavering commitment to Human Rights: http://www.himalmag.com/The-third-Sikh-gha...mar_nw2960.html

    Extract from the article :)

    The extensive elaboration and documentation of this non-violent character of Akali struggles enables the author to expose the intellectual poverty of the international media in its narratives and unidimensional portrayals of the Sikhs and the Akalis as 'militants', 'violent' and 'terrorists'. Kumar attributes this to the lack of resources made available to journalists to investigate relevant issues, and their consequent reliance on Indian government briefings and police handouts. Some space is also devoted here to a critical evaluation of the partisan and destructive role played by the Arya Samaj-controlled media in Punjab. (With origins in the late 19th century, Arya Samaj, a reformist and Hindu supremacist organisation has extensive cultural and political influence in North India, particularly in education and media in Punjab.) This aspect of Kumar's work is especially fascinating, and confirms this reviewer's own research on the anti-Sikh bias of government media (Doordarshan and All India Radio) and Delhi-based English-language dailies.

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  21. Friend Of The Sikhs Ram Narayan Kumar Passes Away

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    Article taken from: http://www.worldsikhnews.com/1%20July%2020...20no%20more.htm

    Ram Narayan Kumar is no more

    Adieu, Friend of the Sikhs

    Jagmohan Singh

    It was striking that a frail man, a one-time monk, living in the backwaters of Delhi, well informed about world developments should take so keen an interest in Sikh affairs and particularly the human rights violations of the Sikhs in the last few decades. Such was Ram Narayan Kumar. He is no more. He expired on Sunday June 28 in his house in Kathmandu.

    When the powers that be in Punjab and India were ruling Punjab under their jackboots, this skinny activist was running helter-skelter mustering support for the Sikhs. He was seen interacting with lawyers, families of militants and the militants themselves whenever he had an opportunity to do so.

    I had a brief association with him. Whenever I met him, he used to say, "your party (Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) has a lot of potential, but somehow is not able to catch the bull by its horns". He wanted me to "come on his side". He wanted me to quit politics and take up serious human rights activism. It is sad, that now that I am keen to do so, he is no more.

    Not many people would know that despite having a house in Delhi, Ram Narayan Kumar would live for months in a hotel room so that he could complete his book on the Sikhs without disturbance. I am sure there are a few handful who know what risks he undertook to familiarise himself with all aspects of the Sikh struggle.

    Notwithstanding some people's doubts and cynicism, the Sikhs will certainly remember you for the monumental work that you have done in spearheading the Committee for Information and Initiative on Punjab. Last year, around this time, Ram Narayan Kumar and Ashok Aggarwal of CIIP came to Chandigarh and declared that they would, now “focus on legal research, besides building of clarity and solidarity on the issues like the principles of liability, in understanding aggregated violations, which the matter of cremations encompasses, and in developing standards to legally capture and quantify suffering, damages and losses for the purpose of evolving standards of reparation”.

    Contemporary history of the Sikhs will not be complete without reference to your work in action and your academic inputs in the writing of Reduced To Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab co authored by Amrik Singh, Ashok Agrwaal and Jaskaran Kaur. This compilation at a time when the whole country was not willing to touch the Sikhs with a barge pole and the international community was found wanting in supporting or even taking up the case of the Sikhs, speaks volumes for your commitment to the cause of fighting state impunity.

    There will be some who will contest your contention that the issue of Sikh sovereignty was used by the State to divert attention from real issues of democracy, constitutional safeguard and citizens' rights, but there will none to doubt your steadfastness in upholding human rights and the search for truth and nothing but the truth.

    Rest in Peace, friend of the Sikhs

    Woopsy posted this in the wrong section :) Admin move it when your ready to do some work :D

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  22. Immortal Productions New Album Chaurasi 84 Out July 5th

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    I think videos need to be made of a few songs in this album like the Parnaam Shaheeda Nu Tune,im sure those Producers in the album who have made videos for bhangra can do the same for this album through their links.

    I believe the videos should be made in the UK so that none of the songs can be edited like Jhoolde Kesri Chande was,

    maybe Jagowale singing Parnaam Shaheedan Nu from the album with Dhad Sarangi Players in the Scottish Highlands /Lake District the scenery will do the work for you,a video such as that would be great for the UK youths to be inspired by and it can be played on our very own Sikh Channel.

    Excellent idea :) ... don't think the songs/videos would need to be edited, Tigerstyle did mention it was due to copyrights and that it was their first official release in India.

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