Terror on the Rail Lines in India's Beloved Mumbai
K.P. Singh
The rail bombings in Mumbai, India on July 11 is another shocking tragedy; another alarming display of inhumanity and callous disregard for human life, and especially for the innocent caught in the middle of political and ideological conflicts and territorial struggles in the Indian subcontinent and around the world.

Police And Communal Riots: Interview with Vibhuti Narain Rai
By Yoginder Sikand
My book is the outcome of a one-year fellowship that I received from the National Police Academy to study perception of police neutrality during incidents of Hindu-Muslim violence. Basically, the study set out to examine how Hindus and Muslims perceive the role of the police in different ways in such situations.

Selling Price of My Child is Rs. 25
By Gagan Grewal
“I’m ready to sell my child for Rs.25 with a profit of Rs.25 and at 100% loss to my motherhood” says a mother of 6 months old baby. This is the condition of many parents in Orissa and other parts of India, who are selling their children for even smaller amount of money.

Philippine Rescinds Death Penalty Following Killings
By Danny Chan
“We’re very happy with the abolition of the death penalty but we have to make the government accountable for the rising pattern of extra-judicial killings,” Loretta Rosales, a legislator who had spearheaded the anti-death penalty movement in 1998, said.

Ayodhya’s Forgotten Muslim Past
By Yoginder Sikand
The Ayodhya controversy continues to drag on, with no sign of any solution in sight. Hindutva ideologues insist that Ayodhya must be theirs alone. Reinventing tradition and myth, they claim that Ayodhya has always been Hindu, thus promoting it to the status of a Hindu Vatican. Yet, as critical historians have pointed out, this claim is completely unsubstantiated.

Teacher Exodus to US Adds to Philippine Brain Drain
By Danny Chan
The city of Baltimore, faced with a shortage of teachers in its schools, has had to look overseas to fill its openings. School officials from Baltimore recently visited Manila to find math, science and special education instructors for the city’s public schools.

FFCAQ Quits Talks With School Board Over Cutlery Flap
By Danny Chan
Since last April’s spoon-and-fork controversy, the FFCAQ has met with school board officials three times in the past five weeks to discuss ways to remedy the situation and prevent a similar mishap in the future. The association has further filed a civil rights complaint before the province’s human rights commission.

Urdu – The Language and Poetry
Zoya Zaidi
History of a language is the history of the place it is spoken in; the history of the culture it is embedded in; in fact a language is a whole culture in itself. The evolution of a language is affected by the various influences of cultures of invaders and infiltrator from neighbouring countries and far off lands on the existing local culture of a place.

Creation or Evolution
G.B. Singh
Because of the ongoing controversy in the public arena in United States, I have decided to revisit the myths of Christianity pertaining to creationism, original sin, intelligent design; and their opposite view, scientifically supported, called the Evolution.

Struggle of Indians for US Citizenship
By Inder Singh
A brief history of immigration to the United States reveals prejudice, hostility and blatant discrimination against the people of Indian origin. The Luce-Celler Bill signed by President Truman on July 3, 1946, gave citizenship rights to the Indian immigrants in the US.

A Sikh Appraisal of the Constitution of 1950 and a Proposal for a Total Review
By Gurtej Singh
Ever since the promulgation of the present Constitution of India, the Sikh view of it has been that it is an inadequate document which negates the aspirations of those who had truly fought for the independence of India from foreign yoke.

Bhai Sardool Singh
By Jagmohan Singh Chadha
Then one day upon return from work, his wife told him that Jassi had come to say that Veer ji wanted to see him. He washed himself as his wife served him his supper. He asked her if Jassi gave any reason for this urgent call. She did not know the details but had surmised it was because of a letter received from Kirpal and sensed that, it was something important.

Concept of Sünya (Sünn) ) in Aad Guru Granth Sahib
By Hardev Singh Virk
Sünyam and Sünyata are two terms of major importance in Buddhism and have been used to denote 'emptiness', 'nothingness', 'non-substantiality' and 'the inexhaustible'. During the second century BC, Buddhist teachers in India emphasized the 'emptiness' as a basic description of the nature of existing things.

Concept and Tradition of Martyrdom in Sikhism
By Dharam Singh
Martyrdom or shahadat is the high tragedy of supreme sacrifice one makes for one's faith and thus bears witness to its truth and to one's own passionate adherence to it. Implicitly, a martyr or shahid is one who by courting martyrdom bears witness to the truth of his faith and to his own unswerving commitment and allegiance to it.

A God Made To Order
By Hardev Singh Virk
A God Made To Order is the fourth book in a series started by the eminent Sikh writer Gajinder Singh. I had the privilege to review his books for The Sikh Review. The author is well versed in comparative religion and it is amply reflected in all the thirteen essays of this book.

June, 1984: A Crisis of Human Rights
By Amrik Singh
I have recounted all these episodes to demonstrate that the Third Holocaust in 1984 falls exactly in the same pattern that has been repeated over and over. How does the holocaust take place? It hits hard at the maximum number of people collected to practice their faith, culture, language and religious boundaries.

The Rising Tide: Authority of the Akal Takhat
By Amrik Singh
Whatever the reasons of such a broad appeal might have been, yet one thing is clear that it is the beginning of a new phase in Sikh politics. The conflict resolution, mediation, minimum consensus and common grounds are some of the topics most Sikh bodies disdain. They entirely reject each other’s existence. That is why they are dubbed as total agents of one or the other party.