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New Year’s Reflections

By Harbakhsh Grewal on January 6, 2010

The ushering in of the New Year and of the second decade of the new millennium is an occasion to reflect on the year gone as well as to look forward.  2009 saw the re-election of a Sikh-led Indian government but a leader often decried as being the puppet rather than the puppet master and [...]

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Patwant Singh (1925-2009)

By admin on August 9, 2009

Suave, handsome, charming and a truly multi-faceted personality, Patwant Singh was the polished face of the Sikhs in the later decades of his life. He had, by that time, already earned a formidable reputation by writing on international affairs, the environment, the arts, and as a TV and radio commentator as well as a magazine [...]

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Sikh historian from New Zealand passes away

By admin on July 21, 2009

The man from faraway New Zealand who came to Punjab in the 1950s as a Christian missionary but ended up being a globally-reputed historian on Sikhs has passed away. W.H. Mcleod, who dedicated over four decades of his life in researching Sikh history, died in Dunedin Monday night, his wife of 54 years, Margaret, informed [...]

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