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  1. 1 hour ago, chatanga1 said:

    It seems that some Sikhs are not reading up on their history. And that's a shame as this particular history is only around 80 years old.

    In 1944, H S Mailk also produced a map of Panjab and outlined it as a Sikh country, to the British. Muslims were asking for Pakistan, so why couldn't the Sikhs have their own country as well. Seems a fair argument.

     

    But the map Malik produced and presented to the British would have only showed a Sikh population of some 20%. The British asked him on what grounds would you claim this as a "Sikh" country? Both the other communities could outvote your community individually. Malik had no answer.

     

    Lesson learnt?

    Which HS Malik is this? Hardit Singh Malik..? The WW1 fighter pilot who became a Indian diplomat?

  2. 1 hour ago, californiasardar1 said:

     

    You are absolutely right in making these points. I can only speak for myself, but I should have been more clear that the "westernization" that the East African Sikhs brought, in my opinion, had to do with women behaving less "traditionally" than they might in families that recently arrived from Punjabi pinds. I apologize for my mistake.

     

    But you are right, "rural" (I'm using the term "rural" to stand in for  something else, but I'm sure you know what I mean) Sikhs are absolutely pathetic when it comes to keeping kesh. I say this as someone who comes from precisely this background.

    I'm not holding any other group responsible for "corrupting" rural Sikhs. As we see in modern day Punjab, rural Sikhs are quite adept at corrupting themselves. I just was noting how the further the time-distance from India, the further various Sikh communities have moved from traditional Punjabi cultural practices in various ways.

     

    That's all good and I agree with you entirely regards to the women being less traditional. However, being "twice immigrants" it's not a surprise. Today we see the same rural Sikhs, some have barely seen Chandigarh and they've changed their appearance sitting in the pind.

  3. 21 minutes ago, californiasardar1 said:

     

    I remember a conversation 20 years ago with a friend of mine. Somehow the topic of the UK Sikh community came up.

    My friend said (I'm paraphrasing): "They are going on their third generation there. Imagine what the girls are like these days. Their community is going to hell."

     

    That was from a conversation that took place 20 years ago!

    Now, that statement wasn't 100% correct. I am actually surprised that some young British-born Sikhs are into Sikhi (and in some cases, more into Sikhi than their parents).

     

    But here are some things that are VERY common in the British Sikh community that I basically never (or very rarely) saw in the American Sikh community:

     

    1. Girls drinking openly at Punjabi wedding receptions and parties

    2. Aunties drinking openly at Punjabi wedding receptions and parties

    3. Aunties with haircuts

    4. Aunties wearing revealing clothing

    5. Clean-shaven "babay" (grandfathers)

    6. Boys and girls in their 20s or 30s who live with their parents but come and go as they please, going out partying, wearing revealing clothing and getting drunk and coming home in the middle of the night ... and somehow not having to hide any of this from their parents. It seems like this kind of behavior is very widely tolerated.

    7. Boys and girls with tattoos

     

     

    I could go on and on ...

    It's interesting that you say this because our impression of North American Sikhs is that with the exception of asylum seekers from the post-'84 years, generally the auntie's and uncles all have a haircut and the kids have lost the plot.

    It's true that the drinking culture in the UK Sikh community is crazy but North America has caught up.

  4. 43 minutes ago, proactive said:

    Because they started to implement the teachings of the Gurus such as equality among Sikhs and against the hereditary claims of Guruship that many Sodhis and Bedis were making. They also attacked the blurring of boundaries that meant that a Sikh would go to a Mandir and a Sufi shrine without feeling in any way that he was being a hypocrite in going against the teachings of the Gurus. They also understood that many attitudes that had become ingrained into the Sikh population were instrumental in making people move away from Sikhism to other religions. Many Sikh Sardars and landholders kept many Muslim mistresses and the children born to them would invariably be bought up as Muslims as Sikh society did not accept them as legitimate and Muslims were eager to accept them to boost their own numbers. I remember reading about Giani Ditt Singh who bought over 200-300 descendants of a Sikh who had been banished by his village because he had married a Muslim woman and he had had to set up his own village separate from the Sikh village. Over time his descendants were worshippers of Sakhi Sarwar, the Muslim Sufi which was a half way house to Islam. There's no doubt within a few decades these person would have become Muslims and lost to Sikhi forever. Yet the tenacity and the preaching skills of Giani Ditt Singh led to them becoming Sikhs. 

     

    Can you remember which book this was? The one mentioning Giani Ditt Singh.

  5. Major General Sir Henry Havelock, whose statue stands in Trafalgar Square, had Sikhs in his Army when they helped crush the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and finished off the remnants of Mogul Empire and gave a bloody nose to the Purbias who had fought against the Sikhs in support of the East India Company only a decade earlier.

    Ironic therefore that a Gurdwara be located on Havelock Road.

    Today, there is a cemetery and a betting shop on this road (and there used to be a pub). 

     

     

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  6. It is true that some Black and Asian communities are at greater risk but what isn't clear is why that is so. For example - how about the Indian and Pakistani communities in India and Pakistan - why aren't they suffering a similar mortality rate? Therefore, is UV light and vitamin D a bigger factor here? 

    The latest report from the ONS state that Indian men are 30-40% more likely to die from Covid-19 and for Pakistani/Bangladeshi men it is as high as 60% (compared to white men as a benchmark). 

    The NHS will have to act on national guidelines produced by national institutions such as the ONS, rather than any particular NHS Trust. 

    Around a month ago the Nursing and Midwifery Council already advised all of it's members regardless of ethnicity that they have the right to not work unless adequate PPE is provided. 

    The BMA crucially, did not. Whether individual NHS Trusts (regardless of proportion of BAME members) issued local guidance, I do not know. I suspect not, however.

  7. On 4/13/2020 at 12:23 AM, Guest Jigsaw_puzzled_singh said:

    Sorry . Daily Mail brother, missed your message. Yes. You're right. I see my mum in every Kashmiro Kaur, Kulwinder Kaur and Karanjit Kaur. They are all my auntie and mum. Just as my mum always knew I'd always be her voice I will always be their voice. Truth, whether it is about nihangs finally teaching Punjab Police that it's not OK to ridicule people by making them roll on the dirty ground as punishment or pointing out inequalities is all about using our education for good.

    But....on a different level.....you say you're a doctor. That's interesting.  I'm not gonna lie to you Daily Mail. I'm good with the ladies and last week after volunteering at a hospital I managed to make a few doctor friends who all happened to be ladies. I got close enough to one or two of them to have some conversations and one of them that worked in ICU told me that the ventilators are killing patients that would otherwise be dead and things like Bhuddist / Hindu yoga (i.s Sikh...but she didn't know anything about Sikhism) breathing techniques would have kept them alive. What say thee Doctor ?

    I am not aware of breathing techniques but it has been reported that ventilators may be doing more harm than good. Intensive care medics are increasingly using nasal oxygen or something called PEEP (positive-end expiratory pressure) ventilation, basically non-invasive oxygen therapy and are only using traditional ventilators (intubation) as a last resort. The usual biological parameters which determine the threshold at which ventilation is required is being looked at again because many patients aren't responding to ventilators as well as one would normally expect.

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