DIRECTION by Livia Kaur

 
Once I was standing on the side of the road, there was total darkness.
An old sikh man was passing by dressed in white , passing so close to me that I noticed him.
I said in a loud voice “It is so dark I cannot see. Where are you going?”.
He answered, “I am going [...]

The Davos Question on YouTube

The Davos Question
“Every year, global leaders attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how to better the world.
This year, you get to join them.
The Annual Meeting has begun, and world leaders have been gathering at the YouTube corner in the Congress Centre to view and respond to [...]

Contemplation On Laundry by Kamalla Rose Kaur

Harriet Jacobs

Jamaica Kincaid
I pour clothes into the washing machine, set the dials and watch the water fill the tank. I have completed my third week, of my first quarter, at Western Washington University and the large increase in workload is hitting me. Everything I used to do – before I took on [...]

One Less Dead Black Man by Michael Moore

Chick Pea Soup

1/2 kilo (4 1/2 cups) of chick peas (garbanzos)
1 large onion
1 cup of olive oil or corn oil
1 tablespoonful of baking soda
salt, pepper, corn flour.
Soak the peas overnight with baking soda.
Then wash them with plenty of water and strain them.
Boil the peas in plenty of water and removing the scum on the top of the [...]

Seva (Service) by Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflections on Sikh Dharma/3HO – Antion Vikram Singh

An interview with the former Vic Briggs of “The Animals”,

who is also the former Mukhia Singh Sahib, Vikram Singh Khalsa.

“I like the guitar playing of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Vic Briggs”
- Jimi Hendrix 1967
Kamalla Rose Kaur: How does Sikh Dharma/3HO look to you now, years after?
Vikram Singh: It is still hard to sort. [...]

Martin Luther King: Breaking The Silence, 40 Years Late

In his last few years of life, Martin Luther King dedicated himself to helping the poor and preaching non-violence and humility to the USA government. His knew he was in grave danger. He was killed while helping out with a garbage collector’s strike. Now forty years later, his role has been “white-washed’ a great [...]

Studying Sikhs in North America – Verne A. Dusenbery

Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh
Here are some sections from Verne A. Dusenbery’s chapter called “On the Moral Sensitivities of Sikhs in North America” where he studies the different reactions that “Jat” Sikhs and “Gora” Sikhs displayed over the assassination of Indira Gandhi. I am not sure he understands either [...]

Stripping The Gurus; Cockroach Yoga – by Geoffrey Falk

CHAPTER XVI
COCKROACH YOGA
(YOGI BHAJAN)
http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/bhajan.asp
YOGI BHAJAN WAS THE SIKH FOUNDER of 3HO, the nonprofit “Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization,” headquartered in Los Angeles.
Born in the Punjab, he worked as a customs agent in New Delhi before emigrating with his wife to North America in 1968, at age thirty-nine, to teach kundalini and white tantric yoga there.
White [...]