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Some images from the Gurmukhi Calligraphy contest organised as part of Khalsa Week of 2019 are shared below. Keep watching this space for more updates.
JKSikhs.com is a sewadar (volunteer) driven initiative in which anyone connected with the Sikh community of Jammu and Kashmir can get involved. This article describes how people can contribute time and effort to this project in a constructive way.
In this first article of the series on Kashmir Sikh Historiography, the author, Sardar Jasbir Singh Sarna analyses the life, genealogy, and times of Bhai Kirpa Singh Dutt based on his reading. He shares some of his findings based on texts like Panda Vahies (Hardwar, Matan), Shaheed Bilas, Musar Alimgiri, Guru kian Sakhian, and Encyclopedia of Sikhism that he has studied. The article includes a short biographical account of Pt. Kirpa Ram Dutt, and the circumstances under which he became Bhai Kirpa Singh in the backdrop of supreme sacrifice of Guru Tegh Bahadur ji.
The composition called “Var Majh Ki Tatha Salok Mahala 1" is a compiliation of pauris and saloks, in which Guru Nanak Sahib discuss ten different phases of life. The author compares these to theories of life developed by modern psychoanalysts
Sri Guru Granth Sahib, is not confined to the Sikhs alone. In fact, Sikhs are the custodians of this beautiful gift given to humankind by Almighty God through Guru Nanak and Their other companions. There are 36 contributors from various spiritual traditions (like Gurus, Bhagats, Pirs), whose compositions are recorded in this scripture, and of these, only six are Sikh Gurus
An article on the Sikh Personalities of Kashmir, including a tribute to Sikh parcharak S. Kaviraj Singh Ji ‘Missionary’ from Srinagar, Kashmir. (Original title of the article was, "Sikh Personalities of Kashmir" but "Sikh Personalities" is now a complete category in this website)
Gursikh meet chalo gur chalee,jo gur kahee soaiee bhall manyoo,har har katha niralee
