Word: sikhism
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...Profligacy is against the tenets of our religion," says Paramjit Singh Sarna, the president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. "Sikhism aims at doing away with meaningless social customs," he says, "but spending huge amounts on weddings creates serious social evils like female foeticide and infanticide...
...less intimidating.” Parvinder S. Thiara ’07, who staffed the Sikh booth, said the event allowed students to ask questions they might not normally feel comfortable asking. “This is a good opportunity because most people don’t know what Sikhism is. When they see me they just think I’m Muslim. This is a good place for people to ask questions without feeling awkward,” he said. The holiday festival follows last month’s successful Chocolate Fountain event thrown by the Council to promote...
...history's crossroads for more than 2,000 years, India is the birthplace of three major religions?Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism?while Christianity and Islam arrived with empires that ruled the country for centuries. All left their monumental marks, from temples to palaces. The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, a private NGO based in New Delhi, counts 70,000 historic monuments across the country, and R.P. Pereira in the New Delhi office of UNESCO?whose World Heritage Committee meets this week in Durban, South Africa, to review global conservation efforts?calls India "the world's biggest heritage...
Singh said that Sikhs do not cut their hair and wear a turban because it symbolizes their commitment to Sikhism...