Alamgir Sahib is a village located 11 kilometers from Ludhiana district of Punjab in north India. This is the village Guru Gobind Singh Ji visited in disguise, after his four sons (often called as Sahibzadas) and mother Mata Gujri Ji were martyred by the Mughal. The place where Guru Ji visited now stands a six-storied [...]

Bhai Mani Singh Ji was a scholar, a Sikh and a great martyr. Bhai Mani Singh steered the destiny of Sikh religion at a very critical stage in the history. He transcribed the final version of Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh Holy Scripture) dictated to him by Guru Gobind Singh in the year 1704 and was [...]

Sultanpur Lodhi is an old town situated on the south bank of Kali Bein (Canal) in Kapurthala district of Punjab.

All credit to Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald for publishing an enlightening description of a vital aspect of life at the Golden Temple at Amritsar – in a report entitled Food for the Body and Soul.

Sikh families living in English-speaking countries who wish to help their children learn Panjabi at an early age can now seek support from a book specially designed to help three to seven year olds absorb the mother tongue…

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall met Sikh, Muslim, Hindu and Gurkha soldiers at a ceremony which paid tribute to South Asian troops who fell at the battle of Neuve-Chapelle in France during the First World War…

A proposal to align some sacred dates on the Nanakshahi calendar with those on the traditional Bikrami calendar has been given final approval by Giani Gurbachan Singh, the jathedar of the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikh community.
But it has lit the fuse to another row between segments of India’s oft-divided Sikh [...]

Sikhs across the world have their own universal calendar. The name of this new calendar is: Nanakshahi Calendar, and it takes its name from Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism.

Sikhs see the adoption of the new calendar as a big step forward for Sikh identity, and one that will help dispel any suggestions that Sikhism is a branch of some other religion.

Television network RT, formerly known as Russia Today, has produced a feature on white people who adopt the Sikh faith.

The English-language global news channel, broadcast from Russia, focuses the article at first on the Miri Piri Academy, an international boarding school in Amritsar, the Sikh holy city in India.

The BBC, consistently one of the most even-handed observers of Britain’s many ethnic communities, has put together a fine explanatory article about Diwali, the Festival of Light, for its online religious pages.
A festival that Sikhs, Hindus and Jains celebrate, Diwali fell this year on Saturday October 17.
For Sikhs, says the BBC, it is particularly important [...]