because the truth needs to be told
The editor of The Sikh Review for 33 years -Saran Singh recently passed away. In this article published in the historic Sikh magazine -The Sikh Review -around some time after the Indian army attack in June 1984, the celebrated bureaucrat and author talks about... More »
WSN Editor Jagmohan Singh recently addressed an event organized by the American Sikh Caucus Committee on 3 November, titled, “Remembering the 1984 Sikh Genocide and the Human Rights Situation in India.” Revisiting the 1984 pogroms in India, Singh drew a long a... More »
ਸਰਕਾਰ ਅਤੇ ਖਬਰਖਾਨੇ ਨੇ ਨਵੰਬਰ ੧੯੮੪ ਦੇ ਕਤਲੇਆਮਾਂ ਨੂੰ “ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦੰਗਿਆਂ” ਦਾ ਨਾਂ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਜਿਸ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਦੋ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਵ ਸਿਰਜਣ ਦੀ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਸ਼ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ ਕਿ ਇਕ ਤਾਂ ਇਹ ‘ਦੰਗੇ’ ਸਨ ਤੇ ਦੂਜਾ ਕਿ “ਇਹ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਤੱਕ ਸੀਮਤ” ਸਨ। ਸਿੱਖ ਸਿਆਸਤ ਦੇ ਸੰਪਾਦਕ ਪਰਮਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਗਾਜ਼ੀ ਅਤੇ ਨੌਜਵਾਨ ਪੰਥ ਸੇਵਕ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਸੰਪਾਦ... More »
The people of Punjab and the Sikhs across the world live through June 1984 every June. It happened 37 years ago but it feels as if it was yesterday – the heart, body and mind still feel the tremors of the emotional earthquake it caused. The force of those trem... More »
Prominent political affairs journal Eurasia Review provides in-depth perspectives on subjects otherwise ignored or presented with a stereotyped slant. Recently, the Eurasia Review has published human rights activist and teacher Dr Paul Newman’s views on the ca... More »
Without obtaining any permission from the requisite authorities under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and without citing any notification or order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Indian government directly or through the pol... More »
June 1984 was an intensely war-like assault on Darbar Sahib, with the systematic killing of thousands of lives by the rampaging Indian army. It formed the first of a two-part part genocidal strike on the Panjaabi-Sikhs over 1984. The second strike in November... More »
Less than two weeks into the storming of Darbar Sahib -the Golden Temple in Amritsar, editor of Sikh Messenger, and now The Lord Singh of Wimbledon CBE -Indarjit Singh, demolished Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s untruths and half-truths about the sacrile... More »
The dedicated band of conservationists of the Panjab Digital Library digitized 44164 pages, as against their own target of 35000 pages. The enthusiastic team is setting new benchmarks for bigger challenges ahead. In an extended daily schedule of 12 hours, five... More »
Instead of only ruing, sulking and complaining about it, the Panjab Digitial Library, which has so far digitized millions of pages, takes on the herculean task of digitizing 35000 pages in one day on 8 June 2019 to commemorate the day of destruction of the Sik... More »
The City Library of Norwich in the state of Connecticut , USA, installed the portrait of Sikh martyr-hero of the Indo-Sikh Battle of June 1984 -Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, in the presence of resident Sikhs, the Mayor of the city and the Governor of the st... More »
Former Akal Takht Jathedar, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, narrated his personal experience and an eye witness account of the dastardly attack on the Akal Takht, Darbar Sahib and Sikh heritage by the Indian Army in June 1984. Years ago, this account was written... More »