Sikhs In The Square

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Sikhs in the Square - Publicity on the radio

Panjab Radio

Tonight (Sunday 30 October) the Sweet Sikhi programme in English between 7-8pm will highlight the Sikhs in the Square event on Sunday 6 November. The Panjabi programme between 8-10pm will also feature the Sikhs in the Square event. They may play the sound from the 13-minute preview of The Widow Colony, which will have its first UK public showing in Trafalgar Square next Sunday.

Sky Digital - Channel 880

Internet: NOT SURE as now on DAB Radio

Raaj Radio

Gurjit Singh will also be covering the Sikhs in the Square event on his programme tonight (Sunday 30 October) between 7-8pm.

Sky Digital - Channel - 891

Internet: www.raajradio.co.uk

You may want to ring in urging both radio stations to be official sponsors of the Sikhs in the Square event and demonstrate their support for the Sikh youth.

We need to get across to all concerned that

'Our youth is our future'

Akash Radio

The discussion programme on Wednesday 2 November between 8-10pm will highlight the Sikhs in the Square event. Akash Radio may also play the sound from the 13-minute preview of The Widow Colony to be shown in Trafalgar Square.

Akash Radio has agreed to provide adverts free of charge for this event by the Sikh youth. The adverts are expected to start on Monday (tomorrow). They are also providing 2 hours free live coverage between 2-4pm from Trafalgar Square on Sunday 6 November.

Sky Digital - Channel - 918

Internet: www.akashradio.com

Please send text messages to your friends regarding the programmes on Panjab and Raaj Radio.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Sikhs in the Square - Publicity on the radio

Panjab Radio

Tonight (Sunday 30 October) the Sweet Sikhi programme in English between 7-8pm will highlight the Sikhs in the Square event on Sunday 6 November.  The Panjabi programme between 8-10pm will also feature the Sikhs in the Square event.  They may play the sound from the 13-minute preview of The Widow Colony, which will have its first UK public showing in Trafalgar Square next Sunday.

Sky Digital - Channel 880

Internet: NOT SURE as now on DAB Radio

Raaj Radio

Gurjit Singh will also be covering the Sikhs in the Square event on his programme tonight (Sunday 30 October) between 7-8pm.   

Sky Digital - Channel - 891

Internet: www.raajradio.co.uk

You may want to ring in urging both radio stations to be official sponsors of the Sikhs in the Square event and demonstrate their support for the Sikh youth. 

We need to get across to all concerned that

'Our youth is our future'

Akash Radio

The discussion programme on Wednesday 2 November between 8-10pm will highlight the Sikhs in the Square event. Akash Radio may also play the sound from the 13-minute preview of The Widow Colony to be shown in Trafalgar Square.

Akash Radio has agreed to provide adverts free of charge for this event by the Sikh youth. The adverts are expected to start on Monday (tomorrow).  They are also providing 2 hours free live coverage between 2-4pm from Trafalgar Square on Sunday 6 November. 

Sky Digital - Channel - 918

Internet: www.akashradio.com

Please send text messages to your friends regarding the programmes on Panjab and Raaj Radio.

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This was also posted as a separate item as many may have missed it hidden away here, but Admin appear to have removed the separate item. Never mind less than 2 hours to go to Panjab Radio and Raaj Radio broadcasts.

[Guest rsingh]

Sweet Sikhi www.panjabradio.net, www.panjabradio.co.uk

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

posters and postcards have been distributed to the following

all gurdwara in leeds, bradford, huddersfield and doncaster. also leeds met, leeds uni and hudderfield uni

postcards and posters have been sent to newcastle.

transport

coach will be leaving chapletown rd gurdwara, leeds and gurdwara singh sabha bradford at 7.30am

mini bus from guru nanak gurdwara, prospect street, huddersfield will be leaving at 7am 

if there is any sangat from doncaster or sheffield that are wanting to go contact 0776368328 and we can arrange to pickup sangat from sheffield

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Maybe Sangat from Scunthorpe that have also expressed an interest could ring 0776368328.

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Panjab Radio - Update

Managed to get 12-15 minutes in English on Sweet Sikhi just before 7.00pm.

Then managed to get a full two hours from 8-10pm in Panjabi. Got good response. Hopefully a few more will turn up from the London area.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Adverts for the Sikhs in the Square event should start today (Monday 31 October) on Panjab Radio (6 times a day) and Akash Radio (similar number of times). Please listen out so we can ensure adverts are going out and the contents are correct.

[rKr]

RAAJ RADIO UPDATE

Got 15mins on Gurjeets Singhs show on Raaj Radio last night - he then translated into English - made good contact as phone did not stop ringing for details after that!

Listen to Leics based RSL all week for further updates.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

November 1, 1984: An eyewitness account

There was a glint of madness in their eyes and murder etched across their faces. Ominous shouts and cries of "Koi Sardar hai? Goli se maar dalenge" (Is there any Sikh? We will shoot him) followed. We were all shocked into a state of stunned numbness.

I was a journalist working with a leading magazine, The Illustrated Weekly of India. A Sikh myself, I was travelling with a group of 20 Sikh friends and family members to Delhi for a wedding. When we boarded the train from Calcutta at 10 am on October 31, 1984 we had never imagined that death and destruction were in store for us.

It was at 12.30 pm that we first heard that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had been shot by her bodyguards and was in hospital. Our instant reaction was one of disbelief. The confirmed news of Mrs Gandhi's assassination reached us over the radio at about 6.30 pm. And it was only then that we learnt that the two assailants were Sikhs.

Every passenger, irrespective of his or her religion, was in a state of shocked silence. But not one anticipated the disaster that awaited us at Ghaziabad. The train reached Ghaziabad (two hours from Delhi) at 11 am the next day.

That was the beginning of two harrowing hours for us, when we were suspended between life and death. A bloodthirsty mob, almost like a pack of hungry wolves hunting for prey, went from coach to coach in search of Sikhs. In a frenzy of madness the mob, armed with iron rods and knives, brutally dragged out Sikhs, burnt their turbans, hacked them to death and threw them across the tracks.

Even the old and feeble were not spared. However, the mob, devoid of rationality, declared that women would be spared. But in what sense were they spared? After all, what could be more torturous for women than seeing male members of their family hacked to death in front of their eyes?

The only Sikhs who were spared were the six with us. And all because of the concern and cooperation of the passengers in our coach. Before the train even halted at Ghaziabad, the hysterical mob had caught a glimpse of the six Sikh men with us.

A fusillade of stones followed and the glass windows were smashed to bits. Shutters were hastily put down for protection. The police, we were told, could not control the wild mob and so they just turned their backs and walked away. We had a ladies' compartment and the other passengers in our coach, realising there was more trouble ahead, suggested that the Sikh men in our group occupy it.

At first, they were reluctant but we literally forced them to stay inside. It was ironic. Sikhs, who were historically known for their valour, now had to protect themselves by hiding in a ladies' compartment. Two ladies were sent into the ladies' compartment so they could answer if any questions were asked. The main doors of the coach were locked from inside and we waited with bated breath. The mob was not to be deterred. Then it began.

They pounded on the heavy metal door for over 15 minutes. The incessant pounding was accompanied by threats to set the train on fire. One non-Sikh passenger shifted uncomfortably in his seat and felt that all of them would lose their lives, but he was sternly reprimanded by the others who declared that under no circumstances would the door be opened.

But the mob finally broke open the door. Their violent mutilation of the train had only whetted their appetite for more destruction. The mob stormed into our coach and walked past the ladies' compartment. But before we could even sigh with relief, they turned around and demanded that the door of the ladies' compartment be opened, so they could check it.

By now, our nerves had reached breaking point. We tried to convince them but the mob was adamant and began to bang on the door. They seemed to grow suspicious at the sight of a number of women outside the ladies' compartment and pointing towards us asked the other passengers, "Are these women travelling alone?"

"No, they are with us," came the quick reply. The other passengers couldn't have been more cooperative. The petrified screams of the two ladies from inside, our pleas and the persuasion of the other passengers finally seemed to convince the mob that there were no Sikhs inside. The mob retreated.

We hoped that conditions in Delhi would be better. But no security arrangements had been made at the station. As a result there were more than 500 Sikh men stranded in the waiting room, while the women left the station to make arrangements for them.

I left the station at 3 pm with the women in our group, while the Sikh men with us -- who were the only ones on the train to survive the disaster -- waited at the station. They removed dead bodies from the train and assisted the injured. By 8 pm we had been successful in making arrangements for them to be taken out of the station.

In a state of stupefied silence, I saw bodies of Sikhs, with rivulets of blood streaming down their faces, being unloaded from the train in which I had travelled. Brutally battered bodies of Sikhs reached Delhi from other incoming trains as well. Innocent people who had done nothing wrong except for being Sikhs and travelling towards Delhi on that fateful day.

That was 21 years ago.

Please take part in the SIKHS IN THE SQUARE event on Sunday 6 November 2005 between 1.30-4.30pm in Trafalgar Square.

[London Sikh Socs]

WOW not long left, This SUNDAY!

http://sikhsoc.blogspot.com/2005/10/sikhs-in-square.html

Sikhs In The Square

Sunday 30th October, 2005

Fauja Singh - Panthic Weekly Staff

London, UK (KP) - Sikhs in the Square is described as a rally for awareness, rememberance of November 1984 and a vigil for Justice.

A rally has been organised next weekend on Sunday 6th November 2005, from 1:30-4:30pm in the heartof London in Trafalgar Square. Organised by Sikh youth of UK the event is being supported by Gurdwara Sahibs up and down the UK, as well as by various Sikh organisations.

Guest speakers attending will include, the Mayor of London, various MPs and MEPs representatives from National freedom movements, Human rights organisations and Trade unions.

The purpose of the event is to raise awareness of Sikhs in UK as well as comemmerating the 21st anniversary of the Sikh holocaust of 1984. Programs will end with a candlelight vigil and procession to remember and call for justice for the murder of thousands of innocent Sikhs.

Various live performances, stalls, refreshments as well as videos and guest speakers have been organised.

http://www.panthic.org/news/124/ARTICLE/1936/2005-10-30.html

http://sikhsoc.blogspot.com/2005/10/sikhs-in-square.html

[sikhlionz]

Slight change in plan for Smethwick sangat:

Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick has 1 coach that will now be departing at 9.30 am SHARP and Tividale Gurdwara opted for a minibus and will go via GNG Smethwick as well.

Announcements will be made at the Gurdwara, simran sessions, forum, etc. and those who booked seats will already have received texts.

Bhull Chukk Maaf Karni

[Taksali Singh]

WJKKWJKP!

HERE IS THE TRAILER FOR SIKHS IN THE SQUARE COURTESY OF NEVERFORGET84.COM....

Many Thanks to Sevadaars of Young Sikhs Derby for their excellent hard work in producing the video :TH: .

WJKKWJKP!

SIKHS IN THE SQUARE - TRAILER