Guru Beadbi

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa,
Waheguru ji ki Fateh!!

sheraan de dereaan te
aj giddad karan kaloalan

Dear all,
i just came across a horrible news today. one which would, or at-least which should, shake and insult every sikh who has some honor left i him/her.
you may read it here: http://rozanaspokesman.com/fullpage.aspx?view=main&mview=May&dview=03&pview=7

for non punjabis, see this: http://epaper.hindustandainik.com/Web/Article/2008/05/02/005/02_05_2008_005_015.jpg
or http://panthic.org/blogs/2008/04/30/beadbi-of-guru-granth-sahib-jis-saroop-by-landlord-causes-a-mini-riot-in-delhi-neighborhood

After going through all these reports, i only feel pity for the Sikhs who think there is still honor for them in the society. for those who think cinema and media mis-represent them, they should forget about ever getting an honorable role in cinema. how can one expect respect for a Sikh if the epicenter of Sikh society is just tossed out of a window 2 storeys from ground and the Sikhs cant do anything.

My heart burns. And this is not because a foolish person did this disgustingly disgraceful act of stupidity but because the Aapke liye, Aapke saath Hamesha Delhi police is invariably on the wrong end in Sikh affairs. doesnt this seem like history all over again? Didnt someone else insult the Guru once a few years ago? where is he now?

on one hand we have the 300 saala yatra with all pomp and show and on the other we have moronic people like this Singal who do such stupidity and sign their death warrants themselves.
I wonder how long and how much more insult will it take for the Sikh masses to wake up from their pleasant dream of India Shining.

Another important thing i strongly feel about is, have we just covered up the Guru in way too many rumaalas without reading and spreading the message of bani? if yes, then this is our primary fault. Where else would you get inspiration of righteousness from? where else would you get Guru's clear cut message of

ja-o ta-o paraym khaylan kaa chaa-o. If you desire to play this game of love with Me, sir Dhar talee galee mayree aa-o. then step onto My Path with your head in hand. it maarag pair Dhareejai. When you place your feet on this Path, sir deejai kaan na keejai. ||20|| give Me your head, and do not pay any attention to public opinion. ||20||

Kings have come and kings have gone. the ones who owned red forts also died in prisons wih nothing to eat. No one can come close to the respect and honor we have for the Guru.The Guru has been with us, is with us and as long as the last Sikh breaths, will be with us honorably.

Guru Ang Sang

news update : http://www.panthic.org/news/126/ARTICLE/4071/2008-05-02.html

Widow Colony

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa,
Waheguru ji ki Fateh.

just saw the website and promo/preview of the movie the widow colony(visit http://www.thewidowcolony.com/).
the movie is directed by Sardarni Harpreet Kaur ji, who graduated from the Penn State University as a communication major. She has made several documentaries and small features about minority issues.
this movie, The Widow Colony, derives its name from the Vidhwa colony in Tilak Vihar, West Delhi,India , where the widows of 1984 anti Sikh massacre victims were camped by the government.

I have personally been there many times,Tilak Vihar, a suburban area in a city of millions. an area which as a child i didnt wanna go to, because it seemed dirty. Little did i know, the streets of Tilak Vihar are cleansed daily from over 20 years , with the tears of the ones who remain. The latest i visited Tilak Vihar, was a couple of years ago, before i was to come to the USA. i knew all facts about the Nishkaam organization established there helping the widows, yet, i wasnt moved much as much as i was after seeing the promos of the movie. My dad and i drove to Nishkaam, on a hot day, in out air conditioned car, with a lot of old(yet wearable) clothes to donate. My dad is an ocean of knowledge yet placid as a lake. he knows what i am learning each day of my stay in the USA, yet, he doesnt tell me anything till i ask myself. maybe its for my own good. like if u help a larva out of an egg, it can never fly.

We donated the clothes, as always the ladies there took them happily. we also bought some Sikhi related clothes, like turbans, inner turbans etc. from there. They were finely made and i was happy as this was one less thing to buy now for my USA trip.Nishkaam in itself is a small building where the widows used to sew clothes to make a living. Today they dont seek money as much as they seek justice. Justice they ask for, i dont think they will ever get.
the world is fluid they say, no dents remain in it for ever. Mothers who had to spill fuel on their kids, wives who couldnt do anything to help their husbands, sons who were forced to see as their mothers and sisters were raped, SIKHS who had no where to go, no where to seek shelter, no one to call out to.

I wonder how on those 3 days, the friendly neighbor Sharma ji would have turned to kill his good old pal the sardarji next door. Police, MLAs and local goons all in an alliance they came, killing the men, raping the women, looting the houses, burning the Gurudwaras. Some say its over 20 years now, forget it. I ask them, can a mother whose young boy was tortured to death in front of her, forget?
can a newly wed, whose husband was killed brutally in front of her, she herself gang raped, forget?
can a son, too young to save his father who was burnt alive in front of him, forget?
maybe when they die, they might forget.

what i think about now, is , that are the Sikhs forgetting those innocents who were butchered in the Delhi pogroms? i think yes, and it will only be till the last widow of the Widow colony lives, that this colony stay. it will be all dust then. No one has tried to bring to books the crooks who led the mobs.
what can i do?
what can i do?
i hope for the lord to lead me.

Hukmī bẖāʼndė sāji­ā ṯūʼn āpė bẖann savār jī­o. ||22||
By Your command, human beings are fashioned. You Yourself embellish them, and then again destroy them. ||22||