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  1. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Would this samgam or rainsabee be broadcasted?
  2. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! We had darshan of bhai sahib at Gurudawar Sis Ganj Sahib during the dashara samagam. He looked in chardi kala. Ekdaas
  3. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! http://akj.org/forum/read.ppa?f=3&i=21733&t=21733
  4. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! I think we have to blame ourselves, we have not done enough to show the world the real india. We have to expose the politics there and bring it to UN's attention. Ekdaas
  5. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! any details for the live?
  6. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Which site is doing the live web cast for the smagam?
  7. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Good idea to keep this sewa going and expanding. Also, look into about membership fee for down loads like sikhnet, where you could hear all the keertan you want to but be a paid member to download any file. The membership is reasonable $40 per year.
  8. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! The keertan buttons of smagams and keertanias are missing from home page. Please put them back.
  9. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! no winamp audio - message says ice 401 service unavailable..please helpx
  10. Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa! Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!! Congratulations to Jagjit Singh...a great achivement. Just a clarification Jagjit Singh joined Los Angeles Sheriff Reserve not as LAPD. He is a very successful electrical engineer working for a big company here in long beach. I still don't know if LAPD will allow a turban. The current LAPD chief is from NY.
  11. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Admin Jee: I am sorry : and 100% agree with you and your policy. I think we should take some action so that it won't happen again. I will work the organization directly. Again my apologies to you and sangat for my brust.
  12. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! It was an experience: Kirtan & Kirtaneeas .... out of this world (missed Dulla jee's keertan on rainsabyee...due to what ever happened that night....ADMIN NOTE: ATTACKS ON PANTHIC GROUPS ARE NOT ALLOWED ON THIS SITE. THIS IS A WARNING ...I think everyone missed Dula jee's Kirtan). Gurudawar: :TH: so huge that I had to ask four different people for hall number 5 and got four different directions...finally thanks to Harsimran Virji from LA, I found where the program was on Friday. Langar: :wub: :cool: hot, spicy and delicious. Sangat: :TH: friendly, upbeat and in chardi kala. Resolution: try to go to Toronto every year or move to Toronto.
  13. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! IIGS 62 International Sikh Youth Camp for more information visit http://www.iigs.com
  14. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Have any one attented a concert by Dya Singh, I have heard that he sings shabads in these concerts or interfaith meetings and then have his jatha clap and dance on these. If this is true it got to stop. Here is world tour schedule, if someone could attend and report: http://www.sikhpoint.com/community/persona...tedschedule.ppa There are two scheduled on 8th of May 2004 at Interfaith program in Orange County (daytime), 8th San Diego. Major Concert programme Ekdaas
  15. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Please see the la times story on this poor person. I don't know if any of our legal organizations would take this case and help the family. http://www.latimes.com/la-me-corcoran15mar...1,4720646.story Man Died of Neglect, Inmates Say Times Headlines more > CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON AT CORCORAN PRISONERS HEAL HEALTH CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON AT CORCORAN PRISONERS MALNUTRITION MEDICAL CARE PRISON DEATHS PRISON GUARDS By Mark Arax, Times Staff Writer FRESNO — For two months, guards and medical staff at a state prison in Corcoran failed to provide meals or emergency care to an elderly inmate dying of malnutrition, according to inmate accounts given to a state senator. In the days before 72-year-old Khem Singh starved to death at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility last month, fellow inmates said, they alerted correctional officers to his grave condition and filed official complaints about his mistreatment. But no medical help was provided, even as it became clear to inmates that Singh, a Sikh priest from India who spoke no English and was crippled, had become emaciated and was intent on killing himself. One inmate wrote a letter to state Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles) pleading th at she intervene, but it arrived a few days after Singh's death Feb. 16. The inmate alleged that a guard had brutalized Singh in December, and that Singh was so afraid of a second assault that he hadn't left his cell for meals or medical appointments for nearly 60 days. The letter obtained by The Times describes a frail and wheelchair-bound Singh — whose 2001 conviction for <admin-profanity filter activated> molestation in Stanislaus County brought him great shame in the Sikh community — committing slow suicide. His weight had dropped from 110 pounds to 80. Prison officials said Friday that they would talk to the inmates and review their letters and complaints as part of a growing investigation into Singh's death. The case coincides with increased scrutiny of California's vast prison system, which is riddled with accusations of brutality, coverups, fraud and poor medical care. At Corcoran, Singh's condition took a turn for the worse early this year. Some correctional officers went to the prison's medical staff to express their own concerns, according to Romero, but logbooks show that no medical technician, nurse or doctor followed up and treated him in his cell. "Mr. Singh has not left his cell to go to eat — not once," the inmate wrote to Romero in a Feb. 11 letter. "They do not bring him any food. None. I smuggle bread back…. Mr. Singh is gentle, polite. I am ashamed it took me so long to speak out." The guard who supervised the cellblock — the same one suspected of having assaulted Singh — is alleged to have told another inmate not to bother speaking out on behalf of the starving inmate. "Forget it; he's going to die," the inmate quoted the guard as telling him, according to Romero. A few days later, after collapsing in his cell, Singh died of lung and heart failure caused by starvation. "He was committing suicide right in front of them and they did nothing," said Romero, chairwoman of the corrections oversight committee, who v isited the prison Tuesday to review medical and custody logbooks and to interview the letter-writer and four other inmates who shared a cellblock with Singh. Romero provided their accounts to The Times on the condition that the inmates' names be kept confidential for fear of staff retaliation. "As I left the prison, I kept asking myself, 'How could this have happened?' Whether it was intentional or sheer neglect, how could they let a man die right in front of their faces?" Romero said. Romero and others questioned why officers from the Corrections Department's Investigative Services Unit still had not interviewed the five inmates. After a prison hands over an incident report, investigators said, they are supposed to move quickly to gather statements from staff and inmates. This is done to make sure recollections are fresh and untainted. "I can't imagine any excuse for not interviewing officers and inmates right away," said one longtime corrections investigator in Sacramento. "That should have been done weeks ago." Martin Hoshino, head of the Investigative Services Unit, acknowledged the delay but said his investigators were now moving quickly to interview the inmates and others. "The original shape of this case was medical in nature, but recent information and developments suggest that it may be more serious than that," he said. "We're now moving very quickly to collect all the pertinent information." Patrick Hart, chief deputy prosecutor for Kings County, said his office would pursue any criminal allegations growing out of the corrections probe. "If their investigation uncovers criminal neglect or other criminal conduct, we won't hesitate to get involved," he said. In the days after Singh's death, corrections officials in Sacramento said he had been depressed since arriving at the prison in late 2001, protesting his child molestation conviction and refusing to eat a diet that didn't conform to his vegetarian practices. The offi cial account was that he died after a series of "on and off again" hunger strikes. The California prison system has a detailed policy on hunger strikes that requires correctional officers and medical staff to follow numerous procedures. Guards must document in writing any refusal of meals, determine the reason for the hunger strike and report it to a supervisor and healthcare staff. Under the rules, nurses and doctors must visit an inmate in his cell daily and assess weight, physical and emotional condition, blood pressure and fluid loss. If an inmate's condition grows worse, the prison can force-feed fluids and nutrients. None of this was done for Singh, corrections officials acknowledged. But they now say that Singh hadn't officially declared a hunger strike, and that his case falls into a grayer area. "He was refusing meals sporadically, but it wasn't an existing hunger strike," said Kelley Santoro, the prison's public information officer. "Was he eating sporadically because he was a vegetarian and didn't like the food served to him? Was he being monitored? All that is under investigation." But the prisoners who shared his cellblock tell a different story — of an inmate who didn't have the language skills to communicate that he was on a hunger strike. His refusal to leave his cell to go to the dining hall, coupled with his severe weight loss and physical deterioration, should have brought the same level of care as that of a hunger striker, inmates told Romero and two members of her staff. "Here is a guy who's clinically depressed and starving himself, and there's no indication in the logbook that medical staff is responding to his needs," Romero said. "No one went to his cell to check on him, despite repeated concerns from inmates and some officers that he was wasting away." Singh's care presented the prison system with challenges, according to Sikh community leaders, his former attorneys and inmates who shared his cellblock in the prison's so-called "special needs yard," a section for <admin-profanity filter activated> offenders and others who are considered prey by more dangerous inmates. Singh was not only frail and burdened with a bad leg, but he also was fighting severe depression after having been convicted of sexually touching three children in a case that divided the Sikh community around Modesto. Singh, a husband and father, had been the temple's high priest until an opposing faction, calling for new leadership, forced him out. He continued to provide religious training to Sikh children at their homes. It was during one such visit that an 8-year-old girl alleged that he had touched her beneath her underwear during reading of the Guru Granth Sahib, the religion's Scriptures. The victim's family had been discouraged by fellow Sikhs from filing charges, according to community members. There was concern that the case would bring negative media attention and ridicule to the growing Sikh community in the San Joaquin Valley. The young girl would be marked for life, it was said, a stigma that might hurt her chances to marry. But the girl's parents went forward with the case and were quickly supported by another family, who alleged that their young son and daughter also had been touched inappropriately by Singh. Hardev Grewal, a court-appointed interpreter, said the evidence against Singh had been strong but he had refused to consider a plea bargain. "His attorney tried to convince him that, if he takes a deal, he might not die in prison. But he felt it would bring a bad name to him and his family," Grewal said. "He ended up testifying on his own behalf. I don't know if it was the language or cultural differences, or if he didn't understand the American way of justice. But he ended up performing poorly." He was convicted and sentenced in June 2001 to 27 years to life. Inmates said he never acclimated to prison. He would clasp his hands in prayer and bow to them and guards, but would grow frustrated at every meal when the prison staff insisted on serving him meat. The more he protested the food, fellow inmates said, the more insistent staff members became. As a Sikh priest, he viewed any meat on his plate as defiling the vegetables. What food he could eat was often little more than a piece of bread with peanut butter. "One inmate told us this whole thing is about vegetables. 'If they would have just given him vegetables instead of meat, he would be alive today,' " Romero said. "But every time he was in line, they insisted on slopping down the meat.' " Santoro said Singh had never followed procedure and formally requested a vegetarian diet through a prison chaplain. But inmates told Romero that Singh lacked the language skills to do so. Besides, he was a priest himself. The inmates traced his rapid deterioration to an incident in December when a supervising officer grew frustrated with Singh and slammed the cell door on the inmate's hand. Singh was clearly injured and in pain but the guard, who had treated Singh poorly in the past, wouldn't allow him to seek medical treatment, according to inmate letters. Singh became so fearful that he hardly left his cell after that, they said. "The other inmates showed a lot of compassion for him. They tried to bring him back food but it was never enough," Romero said. "He became nothing but bones. The inmates filed reports and told counselors about his condition. But nothing was ever done. "Some of the supervisors at the prison told me this was a case of one inmate falling through the cracks. But this isn't about cracks. This is about the worst kind of neglect."
  16. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! I am ready to help, but no programming, only writer or content editor, please send me an email with details to ekdaas@hotmail.com. Also, I would commit at least $5 a month but need a mailing address as I would prefer to send a check.
  17. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! r v still waiting for super server?
  18. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Dula Virji, Bidi Tavinder Kaur, Lalji, Dr. Prabhjot Singh and all the other beautiful keertan (sorry I do not know rest of the names). All the keertan from the samagam was recorded. Put it on asap....please....please...please......thanks.
  19. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Thanks Deep Singh Ji: The site does not have any meanings. I have the original script with me I am interested in meaning. If there is a good book with meaning, I don't mind buying it. Again thanks for all the help but keep it up.
  20. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Virji: Thanks for this website. There is only Bhai Gurdaas Ji's Varan I am looking for Kabith Savaiye, any other suggestions.
  21. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Could someone know off a site where I could find the meanings of Bhai Gurdaas Ji's Kabith Savaiye Bani. Thanks for your help. Ekdaas
  22. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Any plans to broadcast this samagam directly?
  23. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! The files that are up are only one fourth of the samagam. I am requesting rest 3/4 of the samgam....please....please.
  24. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! I have received an email from a friend and saw same at akj.org Statement from John Kerry, February 6, 2004 "It has been brought to my attention that remarks I made on Saturday, January 31 have been misunderstood to imply that adherents of the Sikh faith condone terrorism. Nothing could be farther from the truth and I regret that the imprecision of my statement led to this misunderstanding. "I am deeply sorry for the offense caused by this comment. I was, of course, referring to specific terrorist groups, which have invoked Sikhism and committed past acts of terror in India. I realize that, like me, the vast majority of Sikhs in the United States and worldwide abhor terrorism. I also know that stereotypes, discrimination, and abuse haunt Sikh Americans living and working in this nation. Sikh Americans have made enormous and invaluable contributions to our nation for which I am exceedingly grateful. "Throughout my legislative career I have worked to protect people of all religious faiths, including Sikhs. I have supported legislation condemning bigotry and acts of violence or discrimination against Sikh Americans, and I have fought to prohibit the practice of racial profiling and for a stronger hate crimes law. I have also le d the effort in the Senate to enact the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, which would protect religious observance in the workplace. My legislation has been supported by the Sikh Council on Religion and Education among many other religious groups. "I will continue my work for and with the Sikh community and other religious groups as President of the United States."
  25. vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw! vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!! Dear Admin Jee: What's causing delay in putting the LA Samagam of November 2003? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put it up asap, only Thursday night have been up. Thanks.
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