LAALO LAAL

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 

ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਲਾਲੋ ਲਾਲੁ ਹੈ ਜਿਉ ਰੰਗਿ ਮਜੀਠ ਸਚੜਾਉ ॥

The Gurmukh is the deepest crimson of crimson, dyed in the permanent color of the Lord's Love.

Photograph by Jasleen Kaur

Dumped’ Sikh boy to return to Punjab

We have been following the strange saga of Gurinder Singh since March of 2008, nearly two years. The two most recent posts are here, in case you'd like to review the case.  Or click on "Gurinder Singh" in the labels in the sidebar.  I look forward to reading about this chapter in his life when he writes his autobiography.  How could these events possibly affect a young boy of his age?  He has kept kesh which says something.   'Dumped' Sikh boy to return to Punjab

Young Sikh boy who was found in Southall, abandoned by his parents two years ago, finally has permission to go back to the Punjab to stay with his uncle. Gurinderjit Singh who is now twelve-years-old has been given temporary travel documents by the Home He still has his long hair and has maintained his Sikh identity even under the care of foster parents. This story that shook the Sikh community in Britain and resulted in many childless couples claiming he was there son now has some consolidation for the young boy dumped by his parents. It is believed that his parents are both illegal immigrants in Europe. In an interview last year the paternal grandmother claimed her daughter has sought a better life for her son and sent him to Britain. The grandparents wanted Gurinder to come and live with them, as his elder sister has been left in their care by the parents. But Gurinder will stay with his paternal uncle, Kuldip Singh, a farmer in Punjab state. Both parents have never come forward.  The decision to allow him to return to India is the culmination of a protracted legal battle. The London Borough of Ealing took the unprecedented step of petitioning the Punjab and Haryana high court in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh over the issue. On Wednesday, the ministry of external affairs finally granted Gurinderjit an emergency certificate for travel. 'Constitutional violation' Lawyer Anil Malhotra, who represented Ealing in the court, told the BBC that "winning Gurrinderjit's right to come back to his home in India has been a major challenge". The young Sikh boy has been living in foster care in the UK, the boy had been denied travel documents because neither of his parents was available to support his application at India's high commission in London. According to Mr Malhotra, "his father Mohinder Singh is living in Italy and mother Deepinder Kaur was reported to be in the UK but had abandoned the boy and not responded thereafter". The BBC reported Following the petition filed by Ealing in November, the high court agreed that to deny Gurrinderjit a passport could be construed as a violation of the Indian constitution which guarantees every citizen the right to life and liberty. A BBC correspondent in Punjab says that while the judicial intervention seems to have nudged the Indian authorities into issuing the travel documents, they have agreed to do so only on the condition that the London Borough of Ealing would be responsible "to take the child safely and hand him over to the identified paternal or maternal guardian in India". Gurrinderjit is now expected to fly back under the care of a British social worker on his 12th birthday on 21 April.

--
WHY TRY TO FIT IN? YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT!

The Butcher of Punjab Gets Audience at UN

PunjabNewsline.com - The Butcher of Punjab Gets Audience at UN

A Sikhtoon

Punjab Newsline Network
Wednesday, 10 March 2010

CALIFORNIA: Interfaith International, an NGO with consultative status
with the Economics and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSO),
has accredited 17 Indian citizens to represent India at the 13th
Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva this month.

One of those 17 is KP Gill, known as "the Butcher of Punjab," because
of his gross violations of Human Rights, including the fake-encounter
killings of Sikh youth.

The inclusion of KPS Gill, a former Director-General of the Punjab
police has shocked many Sikhs.

In addition, it is said he participated in abduction, torture,
persecution and the eventually killing of Sardar Jaswant Singh
Khalsa, the Human Rights Activist from the ruling Akali Dal-Badal
party. Gill murdered hundreds of thousand of Sikhs youth during his
tenure with the Punjab Police. Punjab was occupied by india in 1947.

KPS Gill was also appointed a 'Special advisor' to Narendra Modi, who
carried out the genocide of Muslims of Gujarat in 2002-2003.

A group of California Sikhs have written to Madam N Pillay, the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights, asking her to prevent KPS Gill
from entering the United Nations Human Rights Council. They say
instead that Swiss authorities should arrest and try him for crimes
against humanity.

Courtesy: Newsblaze.com

THE CHARDI KALA SIKH SMILEY FAMILY

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Created by me for The Sikh Philosophy Network

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - 2010

ਭੰਡਿ ਜੰਮੀਐ ਭੰਡਿ ਨਿੰਮੀਐ ਭੰਡਿ ਮੰਗਣੁ ਵੀਆਹੁ ॥
ਭੰਡਹੁ ਹੋਵੈ ਦੋਸਤੀ ਭੰਡਹੁ ਚਲੈ ਰਾਹੁ ॥
ਭੰਡੁ ਮੁਆ ਭੰਡੁ ਭਾਲੀਐ ਭੰਡਿ ਹੋਵੈ ਬੰਧਾਨੁ ॥
ਸੋ ਕਿਉ ਮੰਦਾ ਆਖੀਐ ਜਿਤੁ ਜੰਮਹਿ ਰਾਜਾਨ ॥
ਭੰਡਹੁ ਹੀ ਭੰਡੁ ਊਪਜੈ ਭੰਡੈ ਬਾਝੁ ਨ ਕੋਇ ॥
ਨਾਨਕ ਭੰਡੈ ਬਾਹਰਾ ਏਕੋ ਸਚਾ ਸੋਇ ॥
ਜਿਤੁ ਮੁਖਿ ਸਦਾ ਸਾਲਾਹੀਐ ਭਾਗਾ ਰਤੀ ਚਾਰਿ ॥
ਨਾਨਕ ਤੇ ਮੁਖ ਊਜਲੇ ਤਿਤੁ ਸਚੈ ਦਰਬਾਰਿ ॥੨॥

From woman, man is born; 
within woman, man is conceived; 
to woman he is engaged and married.
Woman becomes his friend; 
through woman, the future generations come.
When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; 
to woman he is bound.

So why call her bad? 
From her, kings are born.
From woman, woman is born; 
without woman, there would be no one at all.
O Nanak, only the True Lord is without a woman.
That mouth which praises the Lord continually is blessed and beautiful.
O Nanak, those faces shall be radiant in the Court of the True Lord. ||2||

A SIKH SALAD

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

A SIKH SALAD

CREDITS: 

Thanks to Karen and Brad Emerson for the chard

and

Randy Son of Robert for the kale