I Was Made For a Purpose Editorial
The Sikh Coalition has filed a federal suit against New York Police Department and the Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Two months after being sworn as a traffic agent, in August 2001 Amric Singh Rathour was terminated from service. Rathour was “repeatedly pressured” by NYPD to trim his beard and remove the turban. These are articles of faith that every Sikh is required to wear.
Myths and Dreams: Hindutva Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora By Angana Chatterji
The mobilisation of Hindutva across the United States has damaging effects on the business community, academy, and society at large. It impacts how culture is shaped and community built in diaspora. It affects how decisions connected to India are made, collapsing Indian issues into Hindu issues. It influences how funding is allocated at universities, curriculum developed, temple organisation undertaken, development aid disbursed, and hate campaigns mounted against minority and progressive groups.
Waging Peace in the Streets: Nonviolent Direct Action By Valerie Kaur Brar
Before Iraq entered my daily life, I did not understand street protests. People waving signs, chanting in unison, and getting arrested frightened me. Even when I strongly opposed post-9/11 policies of the Bush administration-become-empire, I shied away from the streets and expressed my politics through academic scholarship. But war drums grew louder and louder, shook the glass bubble around my elite university, and made me feel more and more disempowered.
Divorce By Pritpal Singh Bindra
"Rukhsana, we are home," Baij Nath said. "Rukhsana, what's the matter with you? Till this morning you have been fighting me like a devil... and now... I don't understand...."
School Books That Teach Children To Hate By Mohammad Shehzad
Muslims alone have the right to rule the world and are allowed to kill infidels that stand in the way of Islam. This is the message being taught to schoolchildren through textbooks used in the network of institutions run by Jamaat ud-Daawa, according to a research report on Hate Speech complied by the Liberal Forum Pakistan.
Save The Beloved Country By Alan Paton
That is the reason why I dedicate this anthology to Helen Suzman, who has served her country and her society with courage and tenacity, and of course with great distinction, and I choose her as a representative of all those who have tried to do the same.
Sikhs In The Salient: A Unique War Commemoration Johan Meire
In this article I want to elaborate on how this event originated, and on how it bound together two very different groups. Beyond any doubt, it was one of the most remarkable commemorations of the First World War (1914-1918) that ever took place on the former battlefields.
Interview: Thich Nhat Hanh on Listening and Peace By Anne A. Simpkinson
In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has made attempts to realize this. All the parties involved in violence and injustice agreed to listen to each other in a calm and supportive environment, to look together deeply at the roots of violent acts and to find agreeable arrangements to respond to the situations.
Our Heads Hang In Shame By Jagmohan Singh
The impugned institutions have failed us, but on a larger canvass, we have failed ourselves. My submission before the Khalsa Panth and the people of Panjab will not be complete without a suggestion for solutions. I pray that for a change, let us be part of the solution.
A Younger View of Violence By Danny Chan Esteban is a narrative told by an eight-year-old boy who lives with his mother, Emily, in an artist’s colony in Mexico. Esteban’s parents are separated, with the father living in the United States. Esteban witnesses his mother’s relationship with her husband as well as the men who share her life later on, but he is perplexed by the scope of battering and abuse in those relationships.
A Vision for 21st Century By Nishikant Waghmare
Jacques Delors, Chairman of the UNESCO International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century, said “Humankind sees in Education an indispensable asset in its attempt to have the ideals of peace, freedom and social justice.” And that education is “one of the principal means available to foster a deeper and more harmonious form of human development and thereby to reduce poverty, exclusion, ignorance, oppression and war.”
Five Elements By jetty Singh
The editor graciously suggested that since i have included the poem about my wife Jaslien i should dedicate this month’s poems to her. He also reminded, “not to forget to get her photograph”. Since she was a bit upset with me for the past few days i thought it would be a good idea and a right gesture.
Hindu Zealots Altering History: Scholars By Deepshikha Ghosh
Did the human race originate in India? Did the Indians teach Egyptians the art of building pyramids? Is the Taj Mahal a Hindu monument?
Versions of history like these, with their dangerous emphasis on Hindu nationalism, could soon worm their way into Indian schoolbooks, warned leading Indian scholars.
Revival of Pak-US Defense Ties: A Double-edged Sword? By Mohammad Shehzad
United States has revived the Pak-US Defense Consultative Group (DCG), which had been suspended since 1998 in the aftermath of Pakistan's nuclear tests. A 40-member US delegation, led by the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) Douglas J Feith, visited Islamabad on 26th September 2002, to effect the resumption of defense ties.
As The Drums Roll For War By Angana Chatterji
This war will reinforce Islamic fundamentalists, marginalise progressive Muslims and strengthen the religious right. This war will escalate a thousand-fold the terrorist threat that terrifies people the world over.
The Wonder of Barbie: Popular Culture and the Making of Female Identity By Lenore Wright
My aim in this paper is to explain and critique how female representation in popular culture shapes female identity. I begin by explicating the representational relationship among popular culture items.
Next, I examine the depiction and posturing of women in print advertising and compare female to male representation in the advertising world. I focus particular attention upon the flawed views of women conveyed by bra advertisements.
Finally, I look briefly at key representations of women on television.
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