1,200 pledge to marry female sex workers
December 19, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
It is one of the more amazing stories to emerge from a land where events never cease to amaze – more than 1,000 devout Indian men offering to marry female sex workers to free them from exploitation.
BBC South Asia News reports that Hindu, Muslim and Sikh men have been coming forward in droves to be “wedding volunteers” and rescue women from brothels…
Blood flows in India after Vienna shootings
May 30, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
YOUNG militants who stormed into a temple in Austria and shot and killed one of the leaders of a Sikh sect sparked widespread rioting in northern India.
Several towns were placed under curfew as violent protests followed the slaying in Vienna on Sunday May 24. Two people died in the outbreaks in which police and army [...]
