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Although the movies are trying to portray equality in race and caste, reality is that if a Sikh/Muslim man married a hindu girl, or a Pakstani Pilot married a Hindu girl it would cause great discomfort in the Hindu majority. Even though a Hindu Kareena Kapoor is married to a Muslim Saif Ali Khan, a Hindu Sharmila Tagore was married to a Muslim Patodi. There are so many cases in Bollywood where a hindu has married a Muslim. There just aren't enough movies to show that. But only movie I can think of about a Sikh marrying a Muslim is Gadar.

What don't people get? Guru Sahib have given us hukam to keep shastar whether they are puratan shastar or new shastar. I recall Shiv Sena releasing videos saying derogatory things to Sikhs recently. Hon Singha deh hateyar dekh keh ehna da fukarpana uthar gaye??

Bestow Chamel Singh with the title of martyr: Family Chamel Singh's family, however, contested that he was not involved in spying and had gone missing from his fields adjoining the Pakistan border in July 2008. On a day when Sarabjit Singh was cremated with full state honour at his ancestral village in Punjab, family members of Chamel Singh said he should also be bestowed with the title of a martyr. "Sarabjit Singh was killed in the same jail where our father was murdered. The same persons who killed Sarabjit were involved in the killing of my father," alleged Chamel Singh's son, Deepak. "We appeal to the Centre that our father should also be accorded the title of a martyr," Deepak told PTI. Chamel Singh, who hailed from a border village of Pargwal in Akhnoor of Jammu, was beaten to death in Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat jail on January 15 this year and his body was brought back here on March 13. "We are four brothers and are forced to quit education and work for our survival. We appeal to the government to help our family in the same way as Sarabjit's family has been done. Both Centre and state government should think about us," he said. Chamel Singh, who was about to complete a five-year prison term for his alleged involvement in an espionage case, died in Lahore with reports saying that he was "mercilessly beaten" by Pakistani prison staff. Chamel Singh's family, however, contested that he was not involved in spying and had gone missing from his fields adjoining the Pakistan border in July 2008. India has failed to get his autopsy report from Pakistan till now. "Nearly four months have passed since my father was killed, but till now the autopsy report conducted by Pakistani authorities have not been provided to us. "We request the government to provide us the report. We also request them to provide us a copy of the report of second autopsy that was performed in Jammum after the body was brought back from Pakistan," Deepak added. http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1830301/report-bestow-chamel-singh-with-the-title-of-martyr-family

Can India let us have something for once?

Hawaien is banned in India? And Sadda Haq is releasing May 10th I think.

No offense to Sarabjeet's family but what I can't understand is why is the nation making a bigger deal about this when two soldiers were decapitated by the Pakistani Government a while back and nothing was done for their family. They are giving one crore to the family, the central government is giving 25 lakh and permanent jobs for the daughters. Why not treat other prisoners similarly?

I remember seeing a photo of sant ji in the langar hall at darbar sahib. Is it still there? And there were photos at the Ajaib Ghar also are they still there? So why remove this one? You can buy photos and books about sant ji from the shops outside Darbar Sahib and yet they're worried about a clock.

This article was very hard to read. Maybe because I'm from the USA but I had to re-read the beginning to understand who actually died.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Saad Sangat Ji I am writing a paper about Sikhism for my University class. I had used a Gurbani Tuk from Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj and I'm struggling with how to properly cite Guru Sahib in apa format. Maybe I can cite a website instead like searchgurbani.com or srigranth.org Could someone help me with this? Dhanvaad

If what you are saying is true, then the sad thing is that "Sikhs" had to choose between bringing to justice the evil men who murdered thousands of innocent people, raped thousands of women, and burned thousands of homes, or building a memorial in the name of those innocents who were killed in order to make their name amar in the future generations, to promise those widows and orphans that we have not forgotten their struggles, we have not forgotten the names of those who were mercilessly murdered. What community has to choose between bringing their culprits to justice or being able to forever remember the victims? And then some Sikhs still dare say that we are not gulaam in HINDUstan.

He says "I am a partial Sikh." How can you be a partial Sikh? He says "all you are after is vengeance, not justice." How can we be after vengeance if we haven't gotten justice in the first place? Lets see if he would have made that statement if all his daughter's "Sikh" husbands were massacred by the masses. No way, he would never say crap like that. Only reason he's saying that is because he's protected. Ugh his face made me so mad the way he was rolling his eyes the whole time like he's the most educated and mature person. Most idiotic and intolerant person in fact. And it made me so mad that he interrupted Jagdish Kaur Ji. Like come on, you aren't the most important thing and your opinion doesn't matter... Bloody Hypocrite.

So did they remove the plaques?

Waheguru Ji wants us to see everyone with love. We are in no position to judge others, only Waheguru Ji can. Just because we are Khalsa does not mean we are in the position of judgement. Therefore, treat everyone with love. If you see a possibility of good in someone then definitely help them. But never shun someone out just because they aren't Amritdhari or Sikh. Everyone recieves respect unless they've personally given you a reason not to. Therefore, who are we to treat a "manmukh" differently than a gursikh? And as someone stated above, please define a Gursikh, Manmukh and Gurmukh.

A lot of the comments aren't just opposing the memorial but they are derogatory towards Sikhi. I reported a few of them but its disgusting to see such comments on a well known newspaper such as the Times of India.

I agree, most of these "bigarde hoye" kids have "bigarde hoye" parents who are too much into fashion and society. Cultured parents most of the time raise cultured children. However I also know of some families who are very religious but their children are far from it. It all falls into how children are raised and taught about our religion by their parents. If parents encourage kids to attend religious classes at the Gurdwara, they will. If children have role models to look up to then they will follow. But if they have no one to look up to then its hard for them to be interested in Sikhi.

Well if you look at the cultural aspect of this, people stand up in a form of humility in India. Like when a guest comes home you don't just sit there on the couch as they walk in, you obviously get up as a form of humility. My parents have always taught me to stand up when someone elder is talking to you. In the same way, we stand up in ardas as a form of respect and humility in my opinion.

Wow, Waheguru Ji's jot is in everyone. There are some very immature comments on this thread and I wouldn't have posted otherwise but I feel provoked to say something. Gurpreet bhen, Guru Sahib dressed as Uch Da Peer with Bhai Nabi Khan and Bhai Gani Khan. What if Guru Sahib gave you darshan in that roop? You would reject darshan because of your beliefs that all Muslims are bad? Who are we to call ourselves Khalsa if on the other hand we are sitting here labeling the whole kaum of Islam dirty??? Why not hate the hindus too? Gangu Brahmin betrayed the Sikhs and he was a hindu so lets just blame all generations of Hindus for this. Its kind of ridiculous how far Muslim bashing can go. What do you guys think Guru Gobind Singh Ji would think about us talking like this? Bhai Kanaiya gave water to Sikhs and Muslims alike on the battlefield. Maharaj Ji's arrows had gold on them so that the person the arrows struck would be able to use the gold to cure themselves or their families could use it to perform their last rites. Our religion and our Guru Sahibans teach us tolerance of everyone. Who are we to say that the Muslims that come to the Gurdwaras are in need? Who are we to judge what their needs are? Lets please follow the teachings of Guru Sahib instead of sitting here bashing on other communities.

Please watch this also:

Its like you stole the words out of my mouth. I wrote a whole paper on how media failed to cover the Wisconsin shooting as compared to the Aurora Shooting etc. These people speak the media's language when they label Singhs as terrorists. I honestly think that media has a huge huge role in how our panth and how our struggles are portrayed. Our freedom fighters are labeled as terrorists. Operation Blue Star is seen as a "necessary step" by Indians because MEDIA portrayed Sant Ji and other jujharoo Singhs as terrorists! Indian media is so biased theres no point in watching it sometimes. Makes your blood boil. When Thakure died they made such a big deal about it. Was he not a terrorist??? Its like people don't want the truth. When movies that show reality are screened, people rarely watch them or care about them. When movies about dancing, love, lust etc are released in India its always houseful. Are people avoiding the truth purposefully? Do they not know their system is corrupt? They're obviously not blind but Media makes them blind. They are too busy in their sass bahu serials and they don't care about issues happening around them. They're too busy trying to "justify their glorious democracy" to realize how crappy the system is there. And I'm just talking about general Indian public. What about some of our apne? This weekend I was trying to talk to some family members about Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar's sentence and they had no clue what I was talking about. Really? I know other minorities have it bad in India also. But sometimes it seems like the Sikhs have had it the worst. (Sorry for the rant)

When we ask Waheguru Ji for help and they help us. When we are afraid and we recite Gurbani and our fear vanishes. When we are sad and we listen to kirtan to soothe our minds. When we are facing hardships and Waheguru Ji finds a way for us. When we recite our nitnem banis everyday. Everyday we communicate with Waheguru Ji. And everyday we experience Waheguru Ji in one form or another. We just don't realize it.

UK Sikhs can send the signed copies to their MPs. What can the US and Canada based Sikhs do? Who should we send these copies to? Our local Sangat would like to help in any way they can.

Is there anything we can do? Sign petitions or anything?

Many many thanks for these photos!! I got goosebumps after seeing Maharaj Ji's Kesh (but in a good way). Dhan Dhan Guru Gobind Singh Ji!!

This is what my mom tells me. She said the Hindus in her neighborhood in Punjab distributed sweets after Operation Bluestar and they celebrated. So when Indira Gandhi was assassinated, my mom and her friends distributed sweets at her University.

This is such sad news. Wonder who the other "17 condemned prisoners" are. Waheguru Chardi Kala Bakhshan Panth Nu.