MisterrSingh

You've clearly never sampled the delights of Abraar Ul Haq. "Assa bhi jaana billo de ghar," is a classic. ?

Some prisons in the UK have started releasing inmates in order to prevent the Coronavirus from decimating the prison population. Aside from the fact that they're being removed from perhaps the most securest form of social isolation (?), I'm curious what some of you would do if you were responsible for such policies, particularly if these released prisoners went on to commit crimes. How do you balance the dignity of human life (including those of hardened criminals) with the severe threat they would pose to innocents? What if one of the prisoners went on to murder somebody? How would you justify it?

Amritsari Pesi Gur (Jaggery) 1kg net weight.

I was humming this for most of Sunday.

Bhraava, na apne sir bhaar churaiy ja, lol. Sounds rich coming from me of all people, but who knows. ?

Yes, it's so complex, and it works on so many levels, I'm not sure I fully understand when and how certain things come into play.

For a hypothetical Sikh homeland to have a realistic chance of bearing fruit, it simultaneously needs India to be in a state of fatal decline, dare I say near destruction. I know that sounds like a terribly mean-spirited thing to say, but a healthy, scheming, conniving India would work day and night to undermine a Sikh country. If, however, they were labouring under their own issues, perhaps larger global problems, it would distract them from pouring their energies into messing with us. Believe me, if a Sikh homeland was wrested from India, the things they'd do to humiliate Sikhs for having the temerity to go their own way, would make their localised actions in the Punjab during the 80s and 90s seem like child's play. Being stuck in the middle of the Indians and the Muslims is a huge problem, because our entire mythology, history, and culture is split between those two lands.

I've been craving samose and jalebiya, but the Indian sweet shops are shut near me. Annoyed.

Or they're incredibly smart and play both sides because they own both sides? That 0.0001% of the 1% don't leave things to chance. ?

The implications of that growth are bone-chilling. It's not going to end well.

Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) epidemic that paralyzed 490,000 children beyond expected rates between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and asked Gates and his vaccine policies to leave India. NPAFP rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) reluctantly admitted that the global explosion in polio is predominantly vaccine strain. During Gates’ 2002 MenAfriVac campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gates’ operatives forcibly vaccinated thousands of African children against meningitis. Approximately 50 of the 500 children vaccinated developed paralysis. In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded a phase 3 trial of GSK’s experimental malaria vaccine, killing 151 African infants and causing serious adverse effects including paralysis, seizure, and febrile convulsions to 1,048 of the 5,949 children. In 2010, Gates committed $10 billion to the WHO saying, “We must make this the decade of vaccines.” A month later, Gates said in a Ted Talk that new vaccines “could reduce population”. In 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a “tetanus” vaccine campaign. Independent labs found a sterility formula in every vaccine tested. After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade. Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines. In 2014, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and Merck, on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces. Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged that Gates-funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls. The case is now in the country’s Supreme Court. A 2017 study (Morgenson et. al. 2017) showed that WHO’s popular DTP vaccine is killing more African children than the diseases it prevents. DTP-vaccinated girls suffered 10x the death rate of children who had not yet received the vaccine. WHO has refused to recall the lethal vaccine which it forces upon tens of millions of African children annually. In addition to using his philanthropy to control WHO, UNICEF, GAVI, and PATH, Gates funds a private pharmaceutical company that manufactures vaccines, and additionally is donating $50 million to 12 pharmaceutical companies to speed up development of a coronavirus vaccine. In his recent media appearances, Gates appears confident that the Covid-19 crisis will now give him the opportunity to force his dictatorial vaccine programs on American children.

I believe the attack on Harmindar Sahib was more than just an act of physical destruction. It was also symbolic and it was engineered to cause mass emotional and psychological trauma, the effects of which are still in evidence today whether people realise it or not. They wanted to give Sikhs a black eye from which we'd think twice before ever challenging their might again. Their plan has worked if some of the responses here are any indication. I can understand the fear and reluctance for escalation from those who directly lost loved ones during the pogroms, but to see this desire to "keep our heads down" and be loyal little Indian citizens in the hope they leave us alone, is not a sensible approach.

I can't believe what I'm reading. If more Sikhs in the 80s dealt with Punjab police as these Singhs did, these pot-bellied pigs in beige would've thought twice before massacring our people.

Beards.

Wrong. The Singhs acted as they needed to. Don't be a slave to authority.

This arrogant demand to exist really speaks volumes as to modern mentalities.

A lovely horse.

In all seriousness, the langar issue is a symptom of a larger, more layered problem. I don't think we should obsess specifically over this specific issue without addressing the root malaise. That's way more controversial, and liable to upset many different groups of people.

In the next few years: Langar in prison (they're halfway there, tbh, they already have the metal trays in there). Langar for LGBT. Sikhs setting up langar stalls at gay pride parades, specialising in food such as stuffed, foot-long kerele; rolled-up parathe dripping in makhni, and other suggestive Punjabi dishes. Langar for Aliens. When they launch a full-scale invasion of Earth, I bet some of us will turn up at the landing site ready to please our alien overlords in the hope they change their minds when faced with our kindness.

It's more than that, though, bro. Yes, in exceptional circumstances there's no shame in opening doors to tend to the people, but the Gurughar isn't a perpetual holy soup kitchen. That narrative needs to be dismantled. Langar, in my opinion, is more an act of frugal and humble symbolism that's been bastardi5ed by the excesses of the modern age.

There it is again! Shall we rename Sikhi to Langari, and be done with it? ? Let's modify the Sikh insignia that bears two kirpans and a chakkar, and replace it with a roti and two rolling pins. Might as well, because that's where we seem to be heading. ?

Good article. There is hope, and to see it originate from younger Sikhs is even more reason to be positive.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52216330 Did Nasa hear India clap? A popular WhatsApp message claims that when Indians took part in collective applause to celebrate the nation's emergency services in March, it caused such an racket that Nasa satellites detected "cosmic level sound waves" from it, which made coronavirus "retreat". Sounds far-fetched? Well, yes. The message appeared two weeks ago but we know people are still sharing it despite an official denial from the Indian government. ??

I'd think dandh-baitka, press-ups, etc, were the norm in terms of the culture.