On 9/28/2020 at 5:22 PM, dallysingh101 said:

What do you make of this?

 

@dallysingh101 or anyone else, who is he?

I like his style !

@S1nghcould I request politely, that name of title thread be changed from 'death' to something more suitable.  Maybe 

CAUSE OF DEMISE (OF HUMAN BODY) OF SIKH GURUS.

@DsinghdVeer ji, what do you think now ? Sikh percentage is falling in Panjab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruz_v._Beto

Background[edit]

Fred Arispe Cruz, a Mexican-American born in San Antonio, Texas in 1939, was often in trouble with the police in his teenage years, and became addicted to heroin. In 1960, at 21, Cruz was arrested and convicted of “robbery by assault”. He was sentenced to 50 years in a state prison in 1961.

Cruz denied taking part in the robberies. Wanting to appeal his conviction but unable to afford a lawyer, Cruz began to read all of the law books that he could find in the prison library. Despite only having an 8th grade education, Cruz filed his first pro se appeal to the robbery charge in 1962. Fed up with the harsh field labor, brutal corporal punishments and arbitrary disciplinary hearings experienced by prisoners, Cruz used his new-found knowledge to write a lawsuit against the prison system.

Because of his “legal activities” Cruz was classified as an agitator and transferred to the “Ellis Unit” in 1963. At the Ellis Unit, Cruz was pushed to drop his lawsuit by enduring many hours of solitary confinement. In 1967 Cruz wrote to Reverend Hogen Fujimoto, minister in the Shin Buddhist Churches of America (BCA) to request information on Buddhism. Cruz shared the information he received with other inmates which landed him back in solitary, which at the time meant a bread and water diet with a small meal served every third day.

Despite the abusive conditions, Cruz succeeded in filing his own lawsuit as well as those of other inmates. One of the suits Cruz assisted with is that of a Muslim at the facility who argued that his civil rights were being violated. Warden McAdams punished two inmates for the incident and kept Muslim prisoners at work in the fields six days a week instead of the five days assigned to other inmates. Within days a riot broke out in the Muslim cell block.^[1]

This 1968 riot was the first at Ellis Unit and helped build solidarity among prisoners and gain the attention of outsiders. One of these outsiders was Frances Jalet (later Frances Jalet-Cruz, as Cruz and Jalet were married after his prison release), an attorney whom Cruz had contacted in 1967 after reading about her in a newspaper. Jalet, along with attorney William Bennett Turner, would assist Cruz in his watershed case, Cruz v. Beto.^[1][2]

Case[edit]

Cruz, a Buddhist, complained that he was not allowed to use the prison chapel, that he was prohibited from writing to his religious advisor, and that he was placed in solitary confinement for sharing his religious material with other prisoners. Cruz filed the lawsuit using his own toilet paper ration.^[2] The Federal District Court initially denied relief without a hearing or findings, holding the complaint to be in an area that should be left "to the sound discretion of prison administration."

An amended complaint argued that:

"While prisoners who are members of other religious sects are allowed to use the prison chapel, Cruz is not. He shared his Buddhist religious material with other prisoners and, according to the allegations, in retaliation was placed in solitary confinement on a diet of bread and water for two weeks, without access to newspapers, magazines, or other sources of news. He also alleged that he was prohibited from corresponding with his religious advisor in the Buddhist sect."

and contrasted that with the fact that the prison:

"...encourages inmates to participate in other religious programs, providing at state expense chaplains of the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant faiths; providing also at state expense copies of the Jewish and Christian Bibles, and conducting weekly Sunday school classes and religious services. According to the allegations, points of good merit are given prisoners as a reward for attending orthodox religious services, those points enhancing a prisoner's eligibility for desirable job assignments and early parole consideration"

so:

"...plaintiff and the members of the class he represents are being subjected to an arbitrary and unreasonable exclusion without any lawful justification which invidiously discriminates against them in violation of their constitutional right of religious freedom and denies them equal protection of the laws."^[3]

Outcome[edit]

The court found that:

"Texas has discriminated against petitioner by denying him a reasonable opportunity to pursue his Buddhist faith comparable to that offered other prisoners adhering to conventional religious precepts..."^[3]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Jalet-Cruz

 

Frances Jalet-Cruz (November 10, 1910 – November 29, 1994) was an American lawyer who represented Texas inmates in a number of lawsuits against the Texas Department of Corrections. She was one of the central figures in the Texas prison reform movement during the late 1960s and 1970s that led to broad changes in the Texas prison system in the 1980s.^[1]

Personal life[edit]

She caused a scandal when she married Fred Cruz in 1972 after his release from prison. She was then 61 years old and he was 32. They divorced six years later because of his return to heroin usage.^[1] Frances Jalet-Cruz died in Trumbull, Connecticut in December 1994 at the age of 84.

I think this is how they get 'data', or at least similarly

It was a Somalian gang allegedly

1 hour ago, shastarSingh said:

Yes it's almost solved.

Thanks to Guru Sahib!

Speech therapy really helps.

Many people try to cure stammering by medicines or by giving badaam(almonds).

Speech therapy is the only way to cure stammering.

Hritik Roshan of Bollywood had strong stammering but he got cured through therapy.

Sure, but did you find any Bani helpful also ?

Is narcissism and being 'religious' or 'spiritual' mutually exclusive ?

On 2/8/2017 at 4:47 PM, dallysingh101 said:

Going back to the OP. Do people think we've become weak bhangra paa-ing clowns now? Is the author of the video right in his statement regarding the Delhi Sikh men who were massacred because they'd failed to live up to the physical/military aspects of the Sikh way of life?

I've experienced that demeaning thing where someone finds out you are Sikh and points their fingers in the air, moves their shoulders up and down and goes 'balle balle'. 

Do you think people actually see us as warriors when they meet us in the west? Or sticklers to an archaic religion/way of life? (in their eyes not mine!)

Agree that a significant minority of our population are "weak bhangra paa-ing clowns". And yes, I think it's reality in India that the traditional urban-dwelling Sikhs are not known for their physical/martial strengths, but I don't know how situation was then compared to now. Think i have read some accounts of the men or women putting up a good fight. 

"experienced that demeaning thing where someone finds out you are Sikh and points their fingers in the air, moves their shoulders up and down and goes 'balle balle'."    Not exactly, but remember a while back for a vocational placement at Uni I met a lady who worked there from South India and her first conversation with me she started talking about the 'balle balle' aspect of Sikhs. Also experienced this from another woman from Kerala (but brought up in Middle East) whose first thoughts about SIkhs were related to Bollywood and dancing. 

On 12/20/2021 at 4:39 AM, dallysingh101 said:

bump - well worth watching the short vid in the OP

 

Agree, hence bumping it again. For anyone not watched it, it's a good video, the voice is 'nice'/easy to listen to and he speaks concisely /succinctly. Basically telling us about how Puratan Sikh were warriors and they never did this bhangra /giddha stuff, and how they had arms training. Even how at time of Sant Jarnail Singh ji, they had trained Singhs with them. 

On 4/15/2016 at 3:50 PM, shastarSingh said:

i had a strong stammer and now it has become very negligible and some times it is about 99.99% fine.

How to completely uproot it?

Any baani jaap ?

Did you solve your problem ji ?

I imagine Jaap Sahib might be a good Bani ?

Anyone know if Polish Sikhs have left to come to UK at all ?

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/osian-winters-mannequin-sex-offender-22799976

Mark Williams, who has changed his name from Osian Winters, has a long history of sexual offending, including pleasuring himself while looking at mannequins in a shop window

1 hour ago, S1ngh said:

 

In a 28-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Dr. Stanton said that although his organization, Genocide Watch, does not rank countries, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum believes that, after Pakistan, India is the second most likely country for a genocide to happen.

In the interview to The Wire, Dr. Stanton said “the early warning signs of (genocide) are present in India.” Referring to Genocide Watch’s ’10 stages of genocide’, he said several of them had been fulfilled in India.

The ones he identified are classification (distinguishing between people as us and them and othering them), symbolization (identifying people by the clothes they wear or calling them abba jaan), discrimination (the Citizenship Amendment Act), dehumanization (calling them termites and telling them to go to Pakistan) and polarization (accusing them of love jihad and discriminatory laws against inter-marriage).

On top of all this, he said there have been actual calls for genocide which, he added, is akin to genocide under the Genocide Convention to which India is a signatory.

15 hours ago, Redoptics said:

I think we should send our children for year to be educated in Punjab, so they understand  Sikhi culture, grow a bond with their homeland,  learn to read/write Gurmukhi.  

I have noticed a few of these parchar on YouTube spent a lot of years back home. Jagraj Singh from basics of Sikhi  and Satpal Singh both are two that come to mind.

I know Muslims used to do this back in the day, dont know about now.

Seen a few posts about the youth of today, and this popped in my head.

Where and at what age ?

Pind school ?

Miri Piri Academy ?

India can be difficult to get used to. Also, the summers are very harsh and the worst of the winters are not easy either

17 hours ago, justasking said:

Pantera was a roman soldier who had an affair with mary and resulted in Jesus this story is backed by Jewish sources who are much more reliable and make more sense

What is your source, jee?

Why would Jewish sources be more reliable ?

On 1/18/2022 at 6:09 AM, justasking said:

you are right i shoudln't have made this thread I was pretty angry with some things i saw on tiktok  i will be better representative our community next time

Maybe you could share those Tiktok sites with Sikh PA?

Panjab Chief Ministers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Punjab_(India)

Chief Minister of Punjab[edit]

No		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death) (Constituency)	Party (Alliance/ Partner)	Term of office		Time in office	Assembly	Election	Appointed by (Governor)
					Took office	Left office
Chief Minister (1947-1966) (Punjab, Haryana and Himachal)
1			Gopi Chand Bhargava (1889-1966) (University)	Indian National Congress	15 August 1947	13 April 1949	1 year, 241 days	Interim	1946	C. M. Trivedi
2			Bhim Sen Sachar (1894-1978) (Lahore City)		13 April 1949	18 October 1949	188 days
(1)			Gopi Chand Bhargava (1889-1966) (University)		18 October 1949	20 June 1951	1 year, 245 days
(i)			Vacant[a] (President's rule)	-	20 June 1951	17 April 1952	302 days	-		Rajendra Prasad
(2)			Bhim Sen Sachar (1894-1978) (Ludhiana South)	Indian National Congress	17 April 1952	22 July 1953	3 years, 281 days	1st	1952	C. Madhavlal Trivedi
					22 July 1953	23 January 1956				C. P. N. Singh
3			Partap Singh Kairon (1901-1965)(Sujanpur)		23 January 1956	9 April 1957	8 years, 180 days
					9 April 1957	11 March 1962		2nd	1957
			(Sarhali)		12 March 1962	21 June 1964		3rd	1962	N. Vishnu Gadgil
-			Gopi Chand Bhargava (1889-1966) (MLC)		21 June 1964	6 July 1964	15 days			P. A. T. Pillai
4			Ram Kishan (1913-1971) (Jalandhar North)		7 July 1964	5 July 1966	1 year, 363 days
(ii)			Vacant[a] (President's rule)	-	5 July 1966	1 November 1966	119 days	-		S. Radhakrishnan
Chief Minister (Since 1966) (Punjab)
5			Gurmukh Singh Musafir (1899-1976) (MLC)	Indian National Congress	1 November 1966	8 March 1967	127 days	3rd	1962	Dharma Vira
6			Gurnam Singh (1899-1973) (Qila Raipur)	Akali Dal Sant (PUF)	8 March 1967	25 November 1967	262 days	4th	1967
7			Lachhman Singh Gill (1917-1969) (Dharamkot)	Punjab Janta Party (INC)	25 November 1967	23 August 1968	272 days			D. C. Pavate
(iii)			Vacant[a] (President's rule)	-	23 August 1968	17 February 1969	178 days	-		Zakir Hussain
(6)			Gurnam Singh (1899-1973) (Qila Raipur)	Shiromani Akali Dal (UF)	17 February 1969	27 March 1970	1 year, 38 days	5th	1969	D. C. Pavate
8			Prakash Singh Badal (b. 1927) (Gidderbaha)	Shiromani Akali Dal (BJS)[b]	27 March 1970	14 June 1971	1 year, 82 days
(iv)			Vacant[a] (President's rule)	-	14 June 1971	17 March 1972	277 days	-		V. V. Giri
9			Zail Singh (1916-1994) (Anandpur Sahib)	Indian National Congress (CPI)[c]	17 March 1972	30 April 1977	5 years, 44 days	6th	1972	M. M. Chaudhry
(v)			Vacant[a] (President's rule)	-	30 April 1977	20 June 1977	51 days	-		B. D. Jatti
(8)			Prakash Singh Badal (b. 1927) (Gidderbaha)	Shiromani Akali Dal (JP-CPI)	20 June 1977	17 February 1980	2 years, 242 days	7th	1977	M. M. Chaudhry
(vi)			Vacant[a] (President's rule)	-	17 February 1980	6 June 1980	110 days	-		N. S. Reddy
10			Darbara Singh (1916-1990) (Nakodar)	Indian National Congress	6 June 1980	7 October 1983	3 years, 123 days	8th	1980	J. L. Hathi
(vii)			Vacant[a] (President's rule)	-	7 October 1983	29 September 1985	1 year, 357 days	-		Zail Singh
11			Surjit Singh Barnala (1925-2017) (Barnala)	Shiromani Akali Dal	29 September 1985	11 June 1987	1 year, 255 days	9th	1985	Arjun Singh
(viii)			Vacant[a] (President's rule)	-	11 June 1987	25 February 1992	4 years, 259 days	-		Zail Singh
12			Beant Singh (1922-1995) (Jalandhar Cantonment)	Indian National Congress	25 February 1992	31 August 1995[†]	3 years, 187 days	10th	1992	Surendra Nath
13			Harcharan Singh Brar (1922-2009) (Muktsar)		31 August 1995	21 November 1996	1 year, 82 days			B. K. N. Chhibber
14			Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (b. 1945) (Lehra)		21 November 1996	11 February 1997	82 days
(8)			Prakash Singh Badal (b. 1927) (Lambi)	Shiromani Akali Dal (BJP)	11 February 1997	26 February 2002	5 years, 15 days	11th	1997
15			Amarinder Singh (b. 1942) (Patiala)	Indian National Congress (CPI)[d]	26 February 2002	1 March 2007	5 years, 3 days	12th	2002	J. F. R. Jacob
(8)			Prakash Singh Badal (b. 1927) (Lambi)	Shiromani Akali Dal (BJP)	1 March 2007	14 March 2012	10 years, 15 days	13th	2007	S. F. Rodrigues
					14 March 2012	16 March 2017		14th	2012	Shivraj Patil
(15)			Amarinder Singh (b. 1942) (Patiala)	Indian National Congress	16 March 2017	20 September 2021	4 years, 188 days	15th	2017	V. P. S. Badnore
16			Charanjit Singh (b. 1963) (Chamkaur)		20 September 2021	Incumbent	121 days			Banwarilal Purohit

List of Chief Ministers by Party[edit]

Following is the summary of hold of Chief Minister's office by members of Indian political parties.

I used to have a big interest, casually, about vedic astrology. 

It is very interesting, also quite complex

It really is an art

But Bani done intensively is 'Sarab Rog ka Aukhad Naam' (just need to do more Naam Japna myself...!)