Group items tagged Jobs - Sikhs in India

shared by Josh T on 03 Mar 11 - No Cached

If we only allow our kids to pursue normal mainstream jobs, then who is going to do this much-needed work?
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Will we donate to Sikh organizations instead of funding the older political structures? I’m not saying you shouldn’t give money to your Gurdwara and community, but think about how that money is serving the community and the growth of awareness of Sikhi and the actual impact that it is having as a result
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shared by Abhiti V on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached

shared by Abhiti V on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached

Milkha Singh, one of India's greatest track athletes, has sold his life story to a film maker for a cut price one rupee (two cents) in the hope that the biopic might inspire the youth of his country to excel in the sport.
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"I want Indian youth to understand what determination and purpose can achieve," film director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra told the paper.
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"If a Milkha, who didn't have access to even basic necessities of life, can aim for the skies, why not others who've been provided the best of facilities?"
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shared by Abhiti V on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached

Although an ardent follower of Sikhism, many in the faith consider his spiritual methods and teachings in direct conflict with the core principles of the belief, and branded him a heretic.
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- Abhiti V on 08 Mar 11
  
  Heretic: "a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church"
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Heretic: "a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church"</div>
  
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shared by Abhiti V on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached

Harbhajan Singh (18 August 1920 – 21 October 2002) was a Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator.
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He was educated in the local DAV School and was a top student from a very early age. In his educational ventures, he was among the top three in Punjab but had to stop his studies for lack of money. He took up odd jobs as a sales-boy at a Homoepathic Chemist Shop in Lahore, as a lower-division clerk with the Government of India in New Delhi and then as an Assistant Librarian in Khalsa School, New Delhi.
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Singh completed his higher education without going to college, he had two degrees in English and Hindi Literature, both from the University of Delhi. His thesis discussed Hindi poetry in the Gurumukhi script.
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He started his academic career as an English teacher before switching to Hindi and then to Punajbi. He worked at the University of Delhi as Professor Emeritus until he retired in 1984. He was a visited and gave lectures at many prestigious universities and institutions including the Indian Institute of Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Punjab University[disambiguation needed], Jammu University and Gwahauti University.
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He was invited to join the Department of Modern Indian Languages by a Board of Experts (a board of anthropologists and linguists), including Professor Pritam Singh, who Singh supported greatly until his death.
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