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http://indianhistoriography.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/indian-historians-and-rama-telling-lies-from-indraprastha/

Slavery in India when the country shows off its Mission to Mars? http://thediplomat.com/2013/10/modern-day-slavery-indias-other-shame/

Forget about "isms" and the rest. Sikh religion does not believe in 30 crore devis and devtaas. A sikh is only suppose to worship One God and not worship anything else. Only IK ONKAAR. Differences between the Sikh religion and hinduism are huge. One's spiritiual journey starts from Charan Pahul da and Khandey Bhattey da Amrit and, not by invoking hanuman or drawing mandalas on the floors in different colors. Sikh(ism) and hindu(ism) are totally worlds apart.

Behave now and watch the video, you might learn something from it.

For Indian child slavery - in pictures please visit http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/jul/20/child-slavery-india-assam-trafficking It is really sad but it is true. Children are still suffering and what is anyone doing about all this? No point talking big and letting these little ones end up as slaves in the 21st century. :(

Martin, what made you choose sikhism?

Words fail me!

The best solutions would be to ask people why they behave the way they do to let others have the inside knowledge of their behaviour.

If every single sikh man and woman joined the various armies around the world let alone the british one there will be far too less violence in their community!

Totally shocking!

Sher, you surprise me! You are not only a fanatic yourself but also a slanderer of those trying to make sensible comments here. Some people are just gifted with more brains than others, so just face it. People are complaining of punjabi culture everywhere in the sikhdom and blaming hinduisation of it. Mannmere, your argument is too highbrowed. You need to come down to earth buddy! I enjoy reading your posts even though some of the comments you make are a little too difficult for me to understand but nonetheless they are extremely pertinent and interesting.

This has been going on for a long time in Britain and then they make demands for other cultures to integerate!! If I had any children I would protect them from such an integeration!

Mannmere, you have specified some valid points in your post but our Gurdwaras don't have plenty of space to allocate a room to each and every activity. They are sometimes built in houses or very old churches which have been lying vacant for years. It is difficult to have so many rooms on the premises. What's is wrong with people discussing politics or social issues inside the Gurdwara in the presence of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji? I know people have to be fully focused on what is being said but they can leave the children in the play areas if there are any allocated for this purpose. I am just wondering what if the pradhaans sahib jis discussed everything with the sangat first before planning anything? I have heard many times that the pradhans don't listen to anyone, they just do what they like. I was there when the Prof. was doing one of his lectures and I did find it very hard to concentrate. His lectures are very well researched and very academic and one really needs to take notes, you are right. To be honest I am one of those youngsters that 'abandoned the path' because there was no one to guide me and teach me about sikh dharam. If you saw me now you wouldn't think so. It took me a long time to discover sikhism and now I think I know a little bit more and feel so good. My knowledge about sikhism did not come from any of the Gurdwaras. I think youngsters abandon the path of Sikhee because of the inability of their parents and their parents' parents to pass it on to their children due to lack of understanding and illiteracy. I find it so thoroughly disgusting that majority of our elders are not punjabi literate.

what is this?

Dekhiya, laraayee hogayee!!

Are you sure? Sikh/punjabi kom is the most laraakee kom in the world. It is just so shocking to see them how they fight in the gurdwara sahibs, at home in a family set up and so on. They fail to apply their eagerness to fight in the right places where it is needed most. Unbelieveably shocking. They can't face the home truths because they are not even clever enough to know what they are. Why can't they unite and fight against drug abuse in their kom?

While the poor ones die of hunger and sikness. Have you ever heard of the poverty our sikh brethern known as 'sikligar sikhs?'