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ਹੁਕਮੇ ਆਵੈ ਹੁਕਮੇ ਜਾਵੈ ਹੁਕਮੇ ਰਹੈ ਸਮਾਈ ॥ Everyone comes here at the Lord’s command, leaves in His will and remains merged, too, in the Lord’s will. (SGGS, 940)
MEHER SINGH @ KERNAIL SINGH
27.6.1939 – 15.6.2024
Meher Singh was a devoted husband, loving father, and cherished grandfather. As a dedicated Sikh, he served his community with kindness and compassion. His love for his family and commitment to his faith were central to his life. He will be deeply missed and forever remembered by all who knew him.
AKHAND PATH & ANTIM ARDAAS Arambh (begins): 9am, 19 June 2024 (Wednesday) Path Da Bhog: 9am, 21 June 2024 (Friday) Antim Ardaas: 11.30am, 21 June 2024 (Friday) Gurdwara Sahib Melaka
| Entry: 16 June 2024; Updated: 17 July 2024 | Source: Family
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With profound grief and sorrow, we are deeply saddened to announce the passing away of beloved Harchoran Singh Gill son of Late Hakam Singh Gill (Melaka) on 15 June 2024.
Deeply missed by family members and siblings
Children: Balraj Singh Gill Manveen Kaur Gill
Last respects and saskaar (cremation) will be between 12.15pm to 1pm on 17 June 2024 (Monday) at Kampung Tunku MBPJ Crematorium, Petaling Jaya
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WHAT DOES SIKHI OR BEING A SIKH MEAN AND LOOK LIKE IN THE 21st CENTURY?
Join us to discuss Sikhi & Sikh Youth in the 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects.
This seminar is a safe place for you to ask those burning questions you couldn’t ask anywhere else. This is your chance!
30th June 2024 (Sunday), 9am – 3.30pm Asia Pacific University (APU), Kuala Lumpur
(Free shuttle service will be provided between Bukit Jalil LRT and APU before and after the seminar)
Register for FREE by scanning the QR code on the poster or click here (https://forms.gle/3utYicmpmkVVntJ96)
Alternatively, WhatsApp Pritam Singh (https: //wasap.my/060162162474) with your name and email.
MORE ON THE SEMINAR IN A STORY AT ASIA SAMACHAR TOMORROW (16 June 2024)
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Parents: Late Sardar Alam Singh & Madam Satwant Kaur
Wife: Then Lee Kien @ Jaswant Kaur
Children / Spouses: Satsimran Singh Gursimran Singh (Spouse: Dr. Woon Shu Yuan) Eshweer Preet Kaur Gur Preet Kaur
SASKAAR (CREMATION) 16 June 2024, 3pm, Kuching Buddhist Society Cortège leaves AT 2pm from No. 1545, SL 36, Ava Grove, Lorong Datuk Temenggong Tan Meng Chong 15, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak
PATH DA BHOG 23 June 2024, Gurdwara Sahib Kuching
The family wishes to thank everyone, near and far, for their condolences and support throughout this period.
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Sri Dasmesh Pipe Band winners at the South East Asian Pipe Band Championships in Penang in June 2024 – Photo: Band Facebook
By Asia Samachar | Malaysia |
Sri Dasmesh Pipe Band, category champions at the World Pipe Band Championship in Scotland five years ago, have returned an outstanding performance at the recent South East Asian Pipe Band Championships in Penang.
The Kuala Lumpur-based Sikh pipe band emerged as champions in Band Open A, Street Parade and Drum Fanfare,.
The team also took home two gold medals with Rasjeevan Kaur emerging tops in Tenor 18 years & under and Prabhdeep Singh in Bass 16 years & under.
Akeharraj Singh won a silver in Solo Piping Open, Nimmerta Kaur a silver in Tenor 18 years & under and Rishav Singh a bronze in Tenor 14 years & under.
The 17th South East Asian Pipe Band Championships attracted participants from Thailand, Singapore, Australia and Malaysia.
Sri Dasmesh – named after the tenth Guru of the Sikhs and the only Malaysian pipe band at the event – was formed in 1986 by Sukdev Singh, a commercial pilot and a director of an international school by the same name, with his brother Harvinder Singh.
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With deep sorrow, we would like to inform you that our Mother Sardari Jasbir Kaur Kaur d/o Mahinder Singh (wife of Late Sardar Hira Singh) passed away on 14/6/2024.
Last respects can be paid at the residence at No 1054 B, Jalan Bangsa, Jelapang 30020 Ipoh, Perak
SASKAAR (CREMATION) 15 June 2024 (Saturday) 12.30pm: Cortege leaves for Saskaar 1:00 pm: Saskar at Sikh Crematorium Ipoh (beside Wadda Gurdwara Sahib Ipoh)
PAATH DA BHOG 30 June 2024 (Sunday), around 12pm Gurdwara Sahib Jelapang, Perak
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“Main chauraasi ki ladki hun (I am a woman who has survived 1984),” that’s all how a Sikh woman who was raped during the 1984 anti-Sikh genocide in Delhi describes herself. Now in her sixties, and still living the trauma she went through nearly 40 years ago, she could never pursue a legal battle to get her rapists punished, all due to social stigma and the fact that no one really ever tried to hear what women went through in the turbulent year of 1984.
The new book “Kaurs of 1984 – the untold, unheard stories of Sikh women”, published by HarperCollins, is one such effort to record and document those stifled voices of Sikh women who were raped, murdered and traumatised in 1984 during the Operation Bluestar and anti-Sikh genocide thereafter.
The book, with the oral histories of at least 40 women who saw it all, tells that 1984 wasn’t just about sufferings of turbaned men who were burnt alive with tyres around necks, but also women who in fact continue to suffer even after 40 years after men in the family were massacred. The women were raped, killed and some even took to weapons and turned militants in protest against the establishment and injustice.
Author of the book, Jammu-based Sanam Sutirath Wazir, 33, who had previously worked with the Amnesty International for the project “Justice for anti-Sikh massacre”, says: “Whenever a war or a conflict begins, it’s amid men but women are dragged into it anyhow. Women are the first casualties but their sufferings are never really documented.
Similar is the case for Operation Bluestar and anti-Sikh genocide. Women became casualties but history never really documented them. This book delves into the lives of at least 40 such women who had their own ordeals in the period beginning Operation Bluestar, genocide and even beyond. They are suffering even today. It’s not just them, but at least three of their generations suffering due to lack of resources and help. Though we conducted more than hundred interviews of women who braved 1984, the book features at least 40 of them.”
One such story is that of Nirpreet Kaur, a young college student back in 1984, whose father was burnt alive in front of her eyes during the anti-Sikh genocide. She moved to Punjab with her mother but soon picked up guns. She turned into a militant and was also jailed. She now runs an orphanage in Chandigarh. “She picked up guns in anger.
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AKHAND PATH: Akhand Path arambh (begins) at 4pm, 11 June 2024 (Tuesday) Path Da Bhog at 5pm, 13 June 2024 (Thursday) Gurdwara Sahib Titiwangsa, Kuala Lumpur
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