because the truth needs to be told
With the hype created around Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation, citizens were anticipating decisive announcements on the covid19 programme and the flareup at Indo-Chinese and Indo-Nepalese borders. Evidently, the hype was built only t... More »
Despite several attempts, India has invariably failed to neutralise the Sikhs. Yet, Panjaab invariably remains in a state of siege, lock-down, cruel repression and subjugation by the mighty, oversized, imperialist Indian state, which took over where the Britis... More »
It is now more than ever, a need for the global Panjaabi-Sikh Commonwealth to take a grip of itself, internally and externally, sensibly and intelligently look to reconstruct its affairs away from the debilitating chaos and disorder that has been allowed to ov... More »
With less than two months go for the first anniversary of the full lockdown and takeover of Jammu and Kashmir by India after annulling its special status, the Union Territory machinery is working overtime to crush voices of dissent after having recently given ... More »
Deeply perturbed over the rising deaths of Sikhs, minorities and the poor in Delhi, World Sikh News editor Jagmohan Singh makes a fervent appeal to Sikh Samaritans and Sikh humanitarian bodies to respond without delay to assist the Sikhs under stress and distr... More »
On 19 June 1862 slavery was abolished in the territories of the United States. On the eve of the day, the US officially abolished slavery, Houston resident and thinker Bhupinder Singh says, ‘We have come a long way since then. Yet, as the events of the last mo... More »
In a categoric, stern and straight-forward, in-depth analysis of the events after 1984, the status of the Sikhs since then, the dysfunctional Sikh leadership which even with the best intentions has not been able to make much headway, British writer-activist Ja... More »
In the US, as in many other parts of the world, the past three months have changed personal and social lives substantially. In fact, it has turned social norms topsy-turvy. The pandemic’s impact in the USA has been devastating, yet it also reflects the impact ... More »
As on 5th May 2020, we crossed the dubious milestone of surpassing Italy, the famed covid19 hotspot, in the total number of confirmed cases. In a week’s time, India is poised to cross 3 lakh covid19 positive cases. Much is being made of the early imposition of... More »
Amidst reports of several European countries having turned the corner, WHO has cautioned against exuberance as the world is still in the midst of the first wave of covid19 pandemic. History of pandemics suggests that they go through at least 3 waves before end... More »
While there is an alarming increase in the number of COVID19 infections, India is opening up in a hurry that is not explainable, except that the government now wants the ‘problem of Coronavirus and the attending problems of the country to be out and done with’... More »
The 20-lakh crore stimulus package of the Indian government has been a non-starter. Indian industrialist Rahul Bajaj has called the stimulus package convoluted -going round and round with no beginning and no end. The Communist Party of India calls it a hoax. ... More »