Sikh families try to set up a village in US

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_525...47,00050001.htm

Sikh families try to set up a village in US

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, January 9

Imagine an Indian village coming up in US. Sounds a bit unusual, but around 1000 Sikh families are trying to build a village and a gurdwara in Coronado historic district.

The village concept is not a new one. Sikh villages near gurdwaras are located throughout the world, wherever a sizable community exists, according to Sikhnet, an online Sikh Community.

"The idea is to try and create a village here... We get up before dawn to meditate; that's hard to do when you are in your own apartment somewhere," reports Sikhnet in its newsletter quoting Soul Singh Khalsa, who has chosen to live in this village.

Having group support is vital if you are an athlete. It's the same thing in the spiritual realm, says Khalsa.

Khalsa is one of the dozens of Sikhs and their families who have chosen to live in modest homes near Seventh Street and McDowell Road where the new temple is being built to replace one the community had outgrown.

The hope is that it will be ready in six months, but completion depends on donations within the Sikh community, Sikhnet says.

The Sikh community in central Phoenix has grown steadily in the last 30 years. Many of the Sikh families have migrated from India in the late 1980s and 1990s for jobs in the high-tech industry.

[GABROO KHALISTAN DAH]

man that'll be wikkid

[Son of Guru Gobind Singh Ji]

First it says Sikh families and then it says Indian!

Sikh families try to set up a village in US

Imagine an Indian village coming up in US. Sounds a bit unusual, but around 1000 Sikh families are trying to build a village and a gurdwara in Coronado historic district.

[ms514]

Sat Sri Akal:

It says Indian cause an Indian wrote it and wrotew it with the typical assumption that Sikh=Indian. Ah well, their ignorance...

Yeah, ain't going to be too Indian because this looks as if the Western Sikhs and Eastern Sikhs are thinking of this plan. And a SMART ONE at that! Get your own Sikh village, appoint your own SIKH mayor, have your SIKH schools, and live in the Sangat of SIKHS!!!!!!!!!!

I hope that all works out in this plan and the families are successful.

[Pheena]

That would be a very Enourmous Achievement, if it could be done. I wuld definely move there. Wow im excited already and nothings been done yet...loll

[GABROO KHALISTAN DAH]

yo <admin-profanity filter activated> callin sikhan thaye puth indian <admin-cut>

[Guest mehtab]

GABROO KHALISTAN DAH Posted on Jan 9 2004, 06:31 PM

yo <admin-profanity filter activated> callin sikhan thaye puth indian <admin-cut>

hahahahahahahahahahahaha :wub:

[moorakh mugadh]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

mere laee ek chopda khareed lavo jee in the village chota se

[Gill]

i personally wouldn't move into this villiage.

i just think there would be too much fighting within

[Jkaur]

well if they can live in peace n harmony its a good thing.. but if they resort to wut sikhs end up doin now den its a bad idea..