India gate in Vancouver, Canada

India gate in Vancouver, Canada

Vancouver is planning to have their own India Gate. The reason behind building this gate is to celebrate more than 100 years of Indo-Canadians in this country.The gate will be built in the city's Punjabi Market at 50th Avenue & Main Street at a price of 3 million dollars.The Punjabi Market or you can call it Little India is famous for Indian sweets and merchandise shops.

It is a very big tourist attraction in Vancouver, like Chinatown in Downtown Vancouver. With over 160,000 South Asians, mostly Sikh Punjabi Indians, Little India caters to all these people, and more.

Personally I love the architecture and I think this design represents more Sikh culture and architecture and they (whoever chose the name) should choose different name for this gate. Look at the picture! Gumbad (dome) is the main crowning feature (usually you can see it on gurdwaras). Even if they don't change the name it will still symbolize Sikh community.

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Gordon's Brown Vaisakhi message

14 April 2003. Vaisakhi news from UK.

See what I have stumbled upon...Prime Minister's Vaisakhi message to the Sikh community below.

"I am pleased to send my very best wishes to the British Sikh community for the festival of Vaisakhi.
I know that British Sikhs have made a great contribution to the economic, cultural and political life of the United Kingdom and I firmly believe that your faith and culture have brought tremendous strengths and benefits to our society.
Vaisakhi demonstrates the enduring values of the Sikh community - a belief in equality, social justice, tolerance and respect for other religions and faiths. These are values shared by the wider British community and I am delighted to have this opportunity to send you my best wishes at this special time."

Who is your legend? Who is the most influential / inspiring Sikh?

Little did I know that it will be so hard to get answers for these simple questions. Being a white sikh (you can call me gora), I'm learning Sikhi not the usual way but with the help of husband, Internet, online newspapers and etc. What should I do is to start reading Punjab history books and I will....

Did you hear about Sonny Caberwal from Kenneth Cole ad? Click here to read more about him. I've read so many good comments about him- NEW FACE OF SIKHS. Many young people are inspired by his success. He is like the coolest sikh guy in USA.

That day I was thinking who are those people who inspire Sikhs/Punjabis? Who are those Sikh legends? So to get some answers for my questions I decided to run poll on Sikhpal and Sikhphilosophy sites plus ask my friends.

Please explain 'Sikh' in 5 words!

Who is the most influential Sikh from the past and present?

Most inspiring Sikh literature you ever read?

Most inspiring Sikh woman/man?

Most inspiring Sikh poet/artist?

Most famous Sikh actor/actress?

Most famous Sikh comedian?

Most famous Sikh political person?

Your hero?

Comment by Gurdeep Singh

Most famous Sikh political person?

Sardar Manmohan Singh - Prime Minister of India.He has changed the economic shape of India.

Comment by Gurdeep

Famous sikh actor:- Sidhu

Famous comedian:- Jaspal Bhatti & Pratabh Faujdhar(laughter challenge)

Famous sikh politician:- Dr. manmohan singh

Comment by Anju Kaur

Please explain 'Sikh' in 5 words: hardworking, spiritual, volunteering, compassionate warrior!

[Although The Ten Sikh Gurus would be answer to many of these questions, I’m including only non-Gurus in my reply]

Most inspiring Sikh woman/man? Man- Bhai Kanhaiya; woman: Mai Bhago/ contemporary: Bhagat Puran Singh ji/Bibi Inderjit Kaur

Most inspiring Sikh poet/artist? poet: past-Bhai Vir Singh; present- Surjit Patar/ artist: past: Sobha Singh/ present artist: “ The Singh Twins”: Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh

Most famous Sikh comedian? Gurpreet GhuggiMost famous Sikh political person? Past- Banda Bahadur; present-Manmohan Singh

Comment by Jarnail Singh
Sikh-who am i to explain sikh? guru ji has already explained. you can search shabad "gur satgur ka jo sikh akhaye." you can search bhai gurdas jis vaaran also. "rahini rahe soyi sikh mera.." and all that. To get most of the answer you can repeat "ardaas". sikhs recites name of their heroes everyday in their ardaas. i am not able to add any other name into it. True sikh can not be a good politician as per todays standard politics.

Comments by Shivinder Singh

Who is the most influential Sikh from the past? All 10 Gurus & warriors

Who is the most influential Sikh from the present? Khushwant Singh / Manmohan Singh

Most inspiring Sikh woman? Mata Gujri

Most inspiring Sikh man?Guru Gobind Singh

Most inspiring Sikh book you ever read?Guru Granth Sahib

Most inspiring Sikh poet? Guru Nanak

Most famous Sikh actor/actress?Dharmendra Singh Deol

Most famous Sikh comedian?Bhagwant Mann

Most famous Sikh political person? Maharaja Ranjit Singh

Your hero? Baba Deep Singh

Who is the most influential Sikh figure in world/Punjab history? All 10 Gurus & warriors

Who is the” Sikh”? Who always seeks the Truth

So here you can see all answers. Amazing answers. Thanks to all people who participated in my first ever poll on http://www.desilegend.blogspot.com/. If you reading it, please leave your comment. I need your opinions. I would appreciate if you mention anyone who comes to you mind!

It's good that Sotheby's cancels the action of Sikh body armour

LONDON APRIL: Sotheby's auction house Monday stopped the auction a body armour after protests from Sikh groups. The 18th century armour, estimated at 10-12,000 pounds. Various Sikh websites were doubting the authenticity of this lot. The authenticity is not proven.

Some Sikh cultural experts claimed it might have belonged to the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh. The London auctioneers later clarified that it did not belong to Guru Gobind Singh.

Sotheby's has withdrawn the item from the April 9 auction at the request of the seller, who wanted it acquired by a member of the Sikh community.

The protests in India were mainly in the eastern Indian city of Patna - the birthplace of the Guru - and in Amritsar.

Info from BBC and indiatimes.com

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