Sikhs everywhere are preparing for the biggest religious festival of the year – Vaisakhi, which in 2009 falls on April 13th.
It is an event that incorporates the Sikh’s new year celebrations but above all commemorates 1699, the year the Sikh faith was born in the Punjab.
Centrepiece of the festival is the carrying of the Sikh [...]

In 2008, there was a real resurgence to ensure that the wisdom contained in the Sri Dasam Granth Sahib was given proper respect by various Samprayadas and noted scholars. The second scripture of the Sikhs, the Sri Dasam Granth Sahib has always played a vital part in the Sikh tradition of the Nitnem banis and [...]

Sikh devotees in India have just celebrated the 342nd birth anniversary of the tenth and last guru, Guru Gobind Singh, the warrior-martyr who created the concept of brotherhood (khalsa).
In Patna, the birthplace of the guru, the celebrations included processions and free meals (langars) and the distribution of holy food (prasad).
Guru Gobind Singh was a social [...]

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, alternatively known as the Amritsar Massacre, was named after the Jallianwala Bagh (Garden) in the northern Indian city of Amritsar where, on April 13, 1919, while attending one of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s meetings, British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of [...]

Christmas, also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual Christian holiday celebrated on December 25 that marks and honors the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The birth of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini system of dating, is thought to have occurred between 7 and 2 BC. December 25 [...]

Kabbadi, a sport played for hundreds of years by Sikhs in the Punjab and other regions of northern India, continues to build a presence in other parts of the world.
Australian news web site The Age reports steady growth in Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria, where Kuldip Bassi, the director of the [...]

The five sacred Sikh symbols prescribed by Guru Gobind Singh are commonly known as Panj Kakkar or the ‘Five Ks’ because they start with letter K representing Kakkar in the Punjabi language. They are:
1. Kes or unshorn hair

…regarded as a symbol of saintliness. Guru Nanak started the practice of keeping the hair [...]

Sikhism is one of the younger faiths of the world, as compared with religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity or Islam. It is a monotheistic faith, preaching the existence of only one God, and teaching ideals that may be universally accepted today and in the future: honesty, compassion, humility, piety, social commitment, and most of [...]

Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s birthday is the most important celebration in the Sikh calander. It is in the month of November when the religion’s celebration starts.
“Out of the cotton of compassion, spin the thread of contentment”
Guru Nanak Dev Ji was the founder of the Sikh faith; he was born on the 20th October [...]

Online news site the Punjab Newsline has reported an historic religious procession of Pakistani Sikhs into India.
It says that 370 Pakistani nationals crossed the border in the first such procession since Independence.
The devotees were on their way to take part in Guru Ta Gaddi Diwas, a ceremony observing the tri-centenary of the holy scriptures Guru [...]