Handwriting of God
Editorial
In 1992 COBE satellite discovered hot and cold patches in the cosmic background radiation that are characterized as primeval ripples. These patches have traveled undisturbed since the cooling of the universe three hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. George Smoot, COBE project leader at NASA remarked, "It's like looking at God."

Fostering Future Leaders
By Mohammad Shehzad
Leadership in sustainable development is a departure from Bonapartism-man on the horseback, with all centralised powers. We are suggesting that leadership is driven by values, highest ethical and professional standards and it believes in consensus, understanding and protecting interest of various stakeholders and finding the common ground. You are right in saying that our elite has contributed to the problems of this country. But remember that whatever progress we have made has also come from our leaders.

Marcos Jewelry On Auction Block
By Danny Chan
Jewelry from former first lady Imelda Marcos’s collection has been placed on the auction block in a bid to recoup assets allegedly plundered during the Marcos era. The Bureau of Customs and the Presidential Commission on Good Government jointly announced the sale for this year, marking the first sale of Marcos wealth in nearly a decade.

The Larrikin Pied Piper from Oz
By Shyrone Kaur
Mayor Gurcharan Singh felt that perhaps that was the way to go and asked how such a camp could be started in California. He was told that one key figure in both camps was a “wandering Sikh minstrel” called Dya Singh, accompanied with his small group of musicians. He was not “conventional” but that was what the children had liked about him.

Danny Thomas: To America With Love
By ALSAC
One hundred and one years ago, our people began a migration to the blessed shores of these United States of America, seeking the freedoms and opportunities won for us by our founding fathers. Since that time, we have increased greatly in numbers and have been enjoying the protection of the “Bill of Rights,” yet we have never done anything as a body to justify our use of these rights.

Time, Reality and Religion
By Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia
A thing is said to be timeless, when, though in time, it is not subject to or under the influence of time, that is, when it is not subject to the temporal processes of origination, development and disintegration. This, in other words means that such a timeless thing has an essence, essential property, substance or substratum, that does not change at all and remains in the self-same state of being, irrespective of its location in any temporal instant or duration (past, present, future) of time.

Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo
By Suor Maria Celeste
The young woman who wrote these letters led a cloistered life in a gilded age. In that period, a pope came to power who battled the Protestant Reformation and filled Rome with artistic monuments. The Thirty Years’ War embroiled all of Europe and Scandinavia. The bubonic plague erupted from Germany into Italy, where it ravaged the city of Florence until stemmed by a miracle. And a new philosophy of science threatened to overturn the order of the universe.

Overcoming Exclusionary Practices and Obstacle In The Sikh Religion
By Yogi Kaur
I am an African-American married to a Euro-American and we have a young son who is biracial. This is important to share because the journey leading to my family and I becoming Amritdhari Sikhs could have been less bumpy, but God has kept us on the path. We have no problems with Sikhism, except for the exclusionary behavior that has been witnessed worldwide.

Womens Right: A Protracted Struggle
Jagmohan Singh
A section of the Sikh religious leadership opposes the entry of women into various forms of seva. Like the rest of the society, they too need to be educated. There is a huge gap between Guru Nanak's portrayal and importance of women and the situation we have today largely due to the influence of Indian social mores.

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The Monk In The Lab
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Liberation at Gunpoint
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