Hermeneutics of Guru Granth & Guru Panth
By N. Muthumohan
Although every scripture has its own readers and every religion has its own followers, the Gurus have combined the terms Guru Granth and Guru Panth in a special way that they stand explicitly as inseparable, integrating the two poles of reading, the subject and the object.

Disappearance of Buddhism From India: An Untold Story
By Naresh Kumar
The complete disappearance of the religion of the Buddha from the land of its birth is one of the greatest puzzles of history. Once holding sway throughout the length and breadth of the subcontinent, Buddhism today survives only in the Himalayan fringes along the Tibetan frontier and in small pockets in northern and western India among recent Ambedkarite Dalit converts.

Human rights commission awards $8,000 to victim of racial harassment
By Danny Chan
The 70-year-old retired electrical engineer, who emigrated from the Philippines to Canada in 1977 and has resided in Saint-Hubert since 1986, is to receive $5,000 in moral damages and $3,000 in punitive damages from his neighbors.

Letterman’s Top Ten list draws cheers, jeers
By Danny Chan
The 70-year-old retired electrical engineer, who emigrated from the Philippines to Canada in 1977 and has resided in Saint-Hubert since 1986, is to receive $5,000 in moral damages and $3,000 in punitive damages from his neighbors.

12-year-old’s suicide casts light on Philippines’ poverty
By Danny Chan
A Philippine schoolgirl’s suicide in Davao City in a bid to escape a life of crushing poverty has focused renewed attention on the plight of millions of the nation’s poor. Mariannet Amper, a 12-year-old in the sixth grade at Maa Central Elementary School, hanged herself in her parents’ home in their modest shack.

United Nations, India & Kashmir
By Ghulam Nabi Fai
If promises are made to be broken, then Kashmir may be summoned to prove the treacherous proposition. Broken promises haunt Kashmir's history and explain its tragedy.

Islam and Science: Maulana Shihabuddin Nadwi's 'Scientific' Approach to the Quran
By Yoginder Sikand
Running as a connecting thread through the Maulana's writings is the need for the ulema (besides other Muslims) to study and understand modern science. The Maulana was convinced that this was a Quranic imperative and was also essential for the economic and political empowerment of the Muslims as a community.

e-Symposium: Swami Dayanand & Satyarth Prakash (Light of Truth)
Punjab was set up for the next wave of ideological invasion. It started off with Swami Dayananda’s infamous journey to Punjab. With roughly three decades of western education, Christianity, and a new set of circumstances, the Punjabis had no inkling what was in store for them with this new man on the horizon. This debate will explore that.

Debate - Miracles
By G.B. Singh
While growing up in India, I saw miracles everywhere. They were so common that there never once occurred an idea to reexamine them. In our youth not only did we believe in them but more often than not our elders too believed in them and encouraged us at every given opportunity.

Book Review: The End of Biblical Studies
By G.B. Singh
While living in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1999, one day I was approached by a pastor on the parking lot of a local Wal-Mart shopping store. Our conversations ensued, and for the next hour the pastor had more issues to deal with than his initial wisdom of trying to save my soul.

Book Review - Saragarhi
By Balbir Singh Nagra
Saragarhi is a winning combination of action, politics and history that provides the perfect starting point for discussions about Sikhs in Europe with regards to their baptismal uniform. These 21 Sikhs died protecting the Empire, they were all awarded the Victoria Cross.

Mulmantar: Victim of Mina Tradition
By Gurumel S. Sidhu
The purpose of this article is to challenge and refute the claim of Gurinder Singh Mann that the original Mulmantar in the Bani of Guru Nanak is found in the Harsahai Pothi, the earliest available version or manuscript of Adi Granth or Kartarpur Bir.

Guru Nanak and the ‘Sants’: A Reappraisal
By Nirvikar Singh
Was Guru Nanak a sant? What does the term ‘Sant’ mean in this context? This paper surveys the state of academic responses to these questions. We make the case that both the concept of ‘Sant tradition’ and the membership of Guru Nanak in that tradition are quite problematic.

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Guru Teg Bahadur on Human Mind
By Harbans Lal
Today, researchers of human evolution recognize the human culture and the human mind, as the two basic substrates of the future human evolution. Acceptance of this belief among the psychologists, philosophers and anthropologists alike has increased their concerns on human mind and its environment.

Understanding Jap - 2
By Jarnail Singh
It is very important to understand the concept of Truth given in Guru Granth Sahib. This concept has been and is the hub of Sikh thought and action. It is not an accident that the opening statement in Guru Granth Sahib is about Truth.

Ishmeet Singh: Young Celebrity Among the Sikhs
By Naureen Kaur
Born and raised in America, I am a 13-year old young girl. I love watching Voice of India and looked forward to the results. As a result I quickly found out that two Sikhs were in the competition and that made me enthusiastic.

Rewriting History Delhi University Style
By Gurtej Singh
Even if the purpose of invention of new material to demolish the authentic Sikh thesis is ignored, the activity to sow intellectual dishonesty must be considered abominable. It is particularly when it is being done amongst Hindus, who have been the greatest beneficiaries of the Sikh movement – greater even than the Sikhs themselves.

Why <> is not Ik Oankar !
By Nirmal Singh Kalsi
‘Oankar’ word does occur in Guru Granth Sahib and the import of it at its respective places is not less in any way. But Guru Nanak’s message of <> goes ahead of ‘Oankar” (Immanent Aspect).

Book Review - East of Indus: My Memories of Old Punjab
By Jagpal S. Tiwana
Despite a successful career in America, Dr. Brard’s passion for his village is still intact. “In old age, riches in America cannot make up the loss of separation from extended family and break from the ancestral village land”, he expresses his feelings thus. The resulting book East of Indus, My memories of Old Punjab, covering all that has been on his mind for years.

Best of Sikh News Network
By Anju Kaur
Sikhs have doubled their political activity in presidential races over the last election and their longtime affinity for Republicans seems to have been broken by hard work on the part of Hillary Clinton and the message of change of Barack Obama.