Sikh Survey for 18-30, Keeping the Faith

Keeping the Faith - The Transmission of Sikhism among young British Sikhs, 18-30

Online Survey for all Sikhs aged 18-30, please show your participation and submit your answers

http://www.survey.leeds.ac.uk/sikhs

Saturday 7th August 2010

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Oxford's Sikh community must find a new place to worship

Planning inspector ruled they cannot use a Marston house as a Gurdwara

OXFORD’S Sikh community must find a new place to worship after a planning inspector ruled they cannot use a Marston house as a temple.

In January last year, Oxford City Council refused an application for retrospective planning permission to change the use of 69 Cherwell Drive from a place of residence to a place of worship, following objections from neighbours.

Friday 12th March 2010

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Everyone liked Gurmail Singh

– except the thugs who beat him to death

Gurmail Singh, a 63-year-old grandfather, ran a corner shop — the only shop — in a village perched on a steep hill above the sprawling former mill town of Huddersfield. His murder inside the store last Saturday evening has provoked anguish and anger in Cowcliffe, where villagers have been mourning as though they had lost one of their own.

Saturday 27th February 2010

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Taliban kill 2 Sikhs, send heads to Pak gurdwara

Jaspal Singh and Mahan Singh, both businessmen, were kidnapped from Tira Valley

The Taliban has reportedly beheaded two Sikhs in Pakistan's lawless tribal region bordering Afghanistan and sent the heads to a gurdwara. Jaspal Singh and Mahan Singh, both businessmen, were kidnapped from Tira Valley, in Khyber agency, and Darra Adamkheil, in Orakzai agency, on January 19 and held for ransom. Sources in the area told TOI on Sunday that they were killed because they were paying `protection' money to a rival faction.

Sunday 21st February 2010

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Afghanistan's Sikh heroine fights for rights

She wanted to be a pilot as a child, but has now been recognised as a leading campaigner for the rights of Afghan women.

She wanted to be a pilot as a child, but has now been recognised as a leading campaigner for the rights of Afghan women.

"It is difficult for a woman to be a pilot in Afghanistan. My father said it does not fit in with this country's culture," Dr Anarkali Kaur Honaryar tells me, sitting in her office at the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. In some ways the high flyer has taken on a challenge much tougher than piloting planes. She fights for women's rights in a society that remains staunchly patriarchal, and where many of her gender still breathe beneath their veils.

Thursday 11th February 2010

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