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BAM has been appointed to design and build the £25m Nishkam School in West London. Above: Nishkam School West London BAM Design has provided the concept architecture mechanical, structural, and fittings expertise. BAM Construction will carry out the building works. The contract was secured competitively through the Education Funding Agency EFA national contractors framework. Nishkam schools are Sikh-ethos, multi-faith schools for boys and girls aged 4-19. Building works in West London will provide places for 1400 pupils and be set over two and three storeys with four wings radiating from a central hub. The works include a four-court sports hall, two dining halls, a main assembly hall, and a central faith area with an ETFE dome. Outside will be a multi-use games area and grass pitches. An extensive solar array on the roof will allow it to meet the sustainability requirements of the London Plan. There will be electric charging points in the car park, and the football field will be used for storm attenuation. Mick Kelly, BAM’s construction director, said: “We know that we’ll need to build this scheme considerately and sensitively and that success hinges on the quality of our partnership with the Nishkam team. We’re a collaborative company by nature and we will work very diligently to make this an important addition to the educational needs of the area and providing a special place for young people to learn and develop.” Source - http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/bam-wins-25m-sikh-school

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Musical Project Set to Release 1 Million Copies of Sikh Teachings By Priya Kaur @pripri619 | December 19, 2014 A worldwide project, known as 35 Akhree, or Painti Akhree, is garnering support from various global organizations for its mission to educate Sikhs and others about their religious teachings and language. Although Painti Akhree was originally used in Punjab, India, the language has now crossed the frontiers of its homeland, and Gurmukhi has accompanied them everywhere. The word Gurmukhi means from the mouth of the Guru, but as generations pass, the Punjabi language has been taught less and less within the younger generations. Reaffirmed by the U.K. Research Center on Languages, within in the next 30-40 years, the language of Punjabi will be a rarity. In order to spread the teachings of Gurmukhi, the project will release an album with 10 songs to teach the youth basics about their religion. The copies will be audio CDs, along with DVDs, and all soundtracks are free of cost, to reach as many Sikhs as possible worldwide. The tracks on the songs have been sung by Bollwood singers, like Kavita Seth and Sona Mohanpatra. The songs are set to educate the youth about the 10 Gurus, 5 Pyare, 4 Sahebzade, 5 Kakaar, along with gender equality, importance of Aanad Karaj and Seva. Harmandeep Kaur Randhawa, a reality TV show producer in India, and one of the original members on the project, spoke to me in further detail about their mission at the Euless Gurdwara Sikh Sangat in Euless, Texas. At the projects core, Randhawas said it is targeted to help educate Sikhs of all ages around the world about their religion through music. Music is something people can relate to universally, and that is why their goal is to release one million copies of the album on the same day, making it a world record. There has never been an international record released all over the world, on the same day, not even Jennifer Lopez has released an album worldwide in the same day, Randhawa said. She said she jumped on board with the project for many reasons. Being a Sikh, I wanted to do my seva in a way that I could reach out to as many people as possible, and this is a way I thought I could get everyone involved, Randhawa said. This is a peoples project. This is for the people. The more people we talk to, the more people join, and it keeps getting bigger. We started off with 20 people in India, and now we have covered India, Malaysia, parts of the U.S., and we are working with the U.K. Also, every volunteer who joins the 35 Akhree team will have their name published on the album. Project 35 Akhree is set to debut the album within the next few weeks, so look out for the release date, and be sure to donate to the cause on their website. http://www.35akhree.org Source - http://www.india.com/lifestyle/musical-project-set-to-release-1-million-copies-of-sikh-teachings-226395/

FILM PK SHOWS SIKHS IN BAD LIGHT, SIKH SENTIMENTS HURT Note: The following is a joint perception of 2 individuals whove seen the film. Each person should view the film and judge for themselves. Op Ed by: Jatinderpal Singh and Jaswinder Singh Watched Aamir Khans PK the movie today, After watching the movie I was hurt on many instances in the movie. It has shown disgrace on all religions but I will talk about Sikhism. Some of the noted points were: 1. They have shown an Old Sikh men begging for money by telling a lie to feed dinner for his wife in Hotel Lalit (five star) on their Marrige anniversary, though he asked for money in a style to return it back because he was short of money at that time, but this step was taken to disgrace Sikh community which was merely found begging. The image portrayted in this scene clearly shows a Sikh in bad light in the form of a petty beggar. 2. They have shown one sikh person with open hairs as Hindu Pandit (in this scene all religion people changes their dress, hindu became sikh, chiristian became Muslim) but it had put in disgrace to our kesh. A Sikh doesnt walk around with open Kesh, even though its a film religious articles should be respected 3. In another scene sequel to point 2 above, they have deturbaned hindu who was in Sikhi saroop and said all are equal, they said sikh se pagdi utar gai ban gae muslim, dhadi utar gai ban gae hindu, sab barabar hai) they have shown disgrace to turban. This is the Point Which surpassed anything I had ever seen which beyond hurt my sentiments 4. In another scene, a Sikh student boy in patka going to give exam bow his body ( pura let ke ek pathar ke aage matha tekta) Disgracing principles of sikhi- sikh murtipujan nai karde. In this particular scene heres what happens: Amir Khan spits on a random rock and puts down a few coins of money and he says watch how my investment will more then double in 15 minutes. Immediately following this, A Sikh boy is shown laying down and does matha tek to this random rock with spit from Aamir Khans mouth. It was the height of embarrassment for me as a Sikh watching this because Sikhs dont believe in such things. The shocking thing is that Hindu students who believe in idol worship were shown just folding their hands in front of the stone while the Sikh child was shown laying down completely and then hands folded in front of this stone like a total <banned word filter activated>. Sikhs dont pray to idols or statues of any kind and so showing a Sikh boy laying down to and doing matha tek to a rock with split is beyond hurting Sikh religious sentiments. The above points are ones perception, one might view the film as a Bollywood Flick where anything is possible and ignore these things, but as a Sikh we need to preserve our identity. Sikhs are over protective and dont tolerate such things because if they show such things now in future theyll exceed their limits. The degradation occurs when film makers start to portray religious faiths in negative light. We in the Sikh faith have cherished our articles throughout history and we as a Sikh cant watch degradation occur in front of our eyes especially our Kesh and core beliefs. Source - http://dailysikhupdates.com/film-pk-shows-sikhs-bad-light-sikh-sentiments-hurt/