How to reduce racial bullying
A Sikh youth combing his uncut hair and ties a turban – Photo: Jatinder Bhaker By Jatinder Bhaker | OPINION | A video has gone viral on social media of two school bullies attacking a young Sikh boy...
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Gurnam Singh and Manjit Kaur who anchor a talk show at Akaal Channel By Gurnam Singh and Manjit Kaur | OPINION | Just a quick note to all our friends and viewers; we will be taking a break from Akaal...
View ArticleSatbal Singh (1959-2020), Air Panas, Setapak
AKHAND PATH at Gurdwara Sahib Tatt Khalsa, Kuala Lumpur from 5pm, 25 Dec 2020 (Friday) to 5pm, 27 Dec 2020 (Sunday) | Malaysia SATBAL SINGH S/O LATE CAPT. LALL SINGH & LATE MADAM SARJIT KAUR...
View ArticleSingle use disposable plastics at gurdwaras
Plastics: They are killing sea’s life – Sketch by Luz DeGas By Jespal Singh Sidhu | ENVIRONMENT | SUDP. Ahhh, what is that? Worry not, it is not a swear word. It stands for single use disposable...
View ArticleGurmat (Sikhism) and the global economy
By Ranvir Singh | OPINION | “That one alone knows the Way who earns with the sweat of the brow and then shares with others.” This dictum of Guru Nanak, (born 1469, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus),...
View ArticleJesus Christ: A great revolutionary
By Gurnam Singh | OPINION | Merry Christmas to all my Facebook friends on this very special occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ. You don’t have to be a Christian or be a religious person to celebrate...
View ArticleHarbhan Singh (1948-2020), Kuala Kubu Bharu
AKHAND PATH: 1.1.2021 (starting at 9am) to 3.1.2021 at Gurdwara Sahib Kuala Kubu Baru. PATH DA BHOG around 11.45am on 3.1.2021 | Malaysia Jehaa chiri lekheaa tehaa human kemaaeh, ghale aaveh naankaa...
View ArticleNZ Sikh radio host stabbed in suspected religiously motivated attack
Radio Virsa host Harnek Singh By Asia Samachar Team | NEW ZEALAND | A controversial Auckland radio host is fighting for his life in hospital after being stabbed multiple times in his driveway in an...
View ArticleDiljit Dosanjh: Sardar with Swag
Diljit Dosanjh is the first turbaned Sikh to have a wax statue at Madame Tussauds. – Photo: Courtesy Madame Tussauds By Sandeep Goyal | INDIA | Authentic. The one word that describes Diljit Dosanjh...
View ArticleMy maiden digital samelan experience
IN ACTON: One of the activities at SNSM’s e-Samelan 2020 – Photo: MySamelan Facebook page By Jagdesh Singh | OPINION | It started three days earlier for me. Just like the past 20 years of attending,...
View ArticleLong serving Malacca granthi passes away
Harcharan Singh (1959-2020). Photo taken during the Sant Baba Sohan Singh Ji Salaana Yaadgar Semagam 2017 By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | Long serving Gurdwara Sahib Malacca (GSM) granthi Harcharan...
View ArticleWe stand with our farmers
Farmers at Singhu border, Delhi – Photo: BSB Photography By Jagdesh Singh | OPINION | I’m very late to this, I admit. And I’m at an uneasy situation of it being at the back of my mind as my comfortable...
View ArticleThinking like trees?
An evening at a Malaysian park – Photo: Asia Samachar By Gurnam Singh | OPINION | One of the terrible failings of our current economic model based on commodity capitalism is the way it calculates the...
View ArticleIt is not the cockroaches that scare me
Ashvinder Kaur By Ashvinder Kaur | OPINION | Yesterday my mother walked up to me with an envelope. In it, was my aunt’s death certificate from 30 years ago. I do not think my parents remembered they...
View ArticleSchool swimmer in 60s. Who’s this Sikh girl?
Balwinder Kaur in ACS Ipoh swimming team – Photo: Voyager, 1967 By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | In mid-1960s, a Sikh girl was one of the members of the swimming team of a school in Ipoh, the state...
View ArticleWho are the real enemies of India?
Panjab farmer – Photo: BSB Photography By Gurnam Singh | OPINION | The siege of Delhi by an estimated half a million protesters (and growing by the day) is now entering its second month. Most major...
View ArticleFarmers struggle and remembering the martyrdom of Chhote Sahibzade
By Pritam Singh | OPINION | It is of great historical and political importance that the historic farmers’ protest currently going on in India against the BJP governments’ agro-business market reforms...
View ArticleAruni Bagga releases Mere Mann Pardesi Ve
KIRTAN | NEW RELEASE: Bangkok-based Aruni Bagga as released ‘Mere Mann Pardesi Ve’, rendering a shabad (hymn) by Guru Ram Das. It describes the wavering minds and the need to return home (go inwards)...
View Article#FarmersProtest Update: Temperature dropping, visibility low as protests...
Morning scenes at Delhi border protests site – Photo: Amaan Bali By Aman Singh Bali | INDIA | LATEST UPDATES ON THE INDIAN FARMERS’ PROTEST #FarmersProtest enters day 37 and into 2021. Key Updates. 1....
View ArticleHow Are Farmers Surviving On The Streets? Inside Singhu Border
By Asia Samachar Team | INDIA | Thousands of farmers have been protesting against the center’s farm laws for months now. Amitha Balachandra and Arun Rengaswamy spent 24 hours with these farmers who...
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