Marrying from back home
Hi all. I just want to ask how comman is this thinking in Punjabi communities or is it just a mindset my own family and extended has. basically everyone in my family and extended family have a mindset...
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It's easy throwing around numbers like 10,000 killed in Blue Star, but do post something to back that claim as well. Hondh chillar is one that was discovered, which other such villages have been found?...
View ArticleMata Gurjeet Kaur surviving solely on tea for last 65 years
concept of haram is muslim ... so try again with explanation in gurmat terms please then maybe a discussion can be had . Yes chai as made in India with overboiling of leaves and loads of sugar and...
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New Response If you can see and accept that you create your own stress according to how you are responding, you will then see that there is something you need to unlearn as well as learn. The old...
View ArticleMata Gurjeet Kaur surviving solely on tea for last 65 years
Mhmm, sorry I meant to say it is not allowed/forbidden.
View ArticleWhy Banda Singh Bahadur Kingdom Ended?
This would only be true if he actually did anything wrong, if he did ever commit a mistake in his life It's killing that pregnant deer and testing Guru Sahib. Him bringing Sharia Fanatics to justice...
View ArticleEven Sikhs are brainwashed
I am of muslim background OP's post sounds like the ranting of a madman. Someone no doubt "lost". The way you refer to the Guru is very disrespectful. Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji sacrificed his life for the...
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I suppose he was being modest and self-effacing when HE said this about himself in a conversation with the Mughal administrator responsible for his capture... actually, no, I'm not going to bother...
View ArticleMarrying from back home
We were in the same position but learnt to adjust. In a successful marriage adjustments have to be constantly made. Don't worry too much about them. People are able to get on with their lives without...
View ArticleHow to open up a gurdwara
How about taking over a gurdwara and re establishing it. I can see many guradwaras which jyst go through the motions and have nothing new... which they add to attract sangat esp the youngsters. Regular...
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When your parents came to UK for 25+ years ago. Alot of things were different then in Punjab compared to their new country. Usually when any family moves to another country, one coping defense...
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It's because they still hold the views that they had 20-40yrs ago, when they came to UK. They think the youth are still the same there as back then, but unfortunately things have changed. And that...
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Isn't Sikhi egalitarian though? So women should be allowed to be given the same opportunity and freedom men would have? (Unless these Punjabis actually view themselves as sub-continentals instead of...
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Come on, it's not only that. Promiscuity isn't a small issue in the west. But that all said and done, like others have alluded to - parents often have a totally (unrealistic and) idealised conception...
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If you read my first paragraph, that's exactly what I'm saying. Things have moved on, but the elders here are under the impression that it's still like 40yrs ago. They don't see the other side of it,...
View ArticleMarrying from back home
Yes that is the Sikh view, but unfortunately not everybody follows Sikhi teachings.
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Bhen ji, I'm saying that the concern they have (although it doesn't apply towards all apneean) isn't an irrational one when it comes to girls who have grown up here. There are serious issues we are all...
View ArticleHow to open up a gurdwara
Waheguru ji ka khalsa whaeguru ji ke fateh In my opinion less is more . There are already plenty of Gurudawaras in the UK . One can meditate anytime and any place . Lets not take opening a Gurudawara...
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