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...Seeking Sikhs In the compound of Amritsar's Golden Temple, holy of holies to India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, long lines of tall, bearded and turbaned Sikh men and slender Sikh women passed slowly by a small wooden...
...endless war between bureaucracy and the individual, a new skirmish was being fought last week in industrial Manchester. A 6-ft., nobly bearded Sikh named Gyani Sundar Singh Sagar. 43, having passed the examination to become a conductor on Manchester's municipal buses, was eager to don the navy-blue uniform of his chosen calling. But since the Sikh Holy Book, the Adi Granth. says that "a Sikh is never to wear a cap or shave his beard or head,'' Singh Sagar asked permission to keep his shoulder-length hair under a smoothly coiled turban rather than...
Last week, even more dismayed by public outcry than by private eccentricity, harried Bureaucrat Morris hurriedly put the case of Singh Sagar back on the agenda for next month's Transport Committee meeting. "Perhaps," said stubborn, turbaned Singh Sagar. "I will be the first Sikh to ring a Manchester Corporation bus bell...
India last week heard for the first time the full story of Constable Karam Singh. A stocky, moon-faced Sikh with a curly black mustache, Karam Singh. 49, was the commander of the Indian police patrol in Ladakh that was ambushed and cut to pieces by the Chinese last October (TIME, Nov. 2). Captured, Singh was treated with a mixture of brutality, buffoonery, cynicism and dishonesty, which indicates that Chinese methods with their prisoners have varied little since the Korean...
...This is a genuine religion with no hypocrisy about it.'' said Harbans Singh. "Once you become a Sikh you are one of them.*no matter what color you are or what you were before-something few other religions can claim to practice...