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TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMANS DAY... remember...the Mother... Sister....the Wife..the daughter..the Daughter - in - Law.... Source:: Sikhism Philosophy Network http://www.sikhism.us/general- articles/24174-today-is- international-womans-day.html The Dadee..the Nanii..The Bhua..the Massi..the potee..the Dohtee Mata Tripta.. ..Mata Sulakhnii... Mata Nanaki...Mata Kheevee...Mata Bhani...Mata Ganga..//Mata Jeeto...Mata Nanaki.. Mata Gujree..Mata Sahib kaur...Mata Sundree..Mata Bhago....and many many more... I pay tribute to.... So kion mandah akheeayeah..jit jammeh Rajaan.....MY OWN MOTHER who gave birth to me...so that I can have this opportunity to Merge with MY CREATOR...THANK YOU MUM.( BTW.... i am no "rajaan" !!)

Shorn Of Identity SGPC says a Sikh is one with untrimmed hair. And so makes half the community apostate. CHANDER SUTA DOGRA T his legal hair-splitting may strip Sikhs in Punjab and elsewhere of their religious identity. On January 16, the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), which runs all Sikh religious institutions in Punjab and is commonly referred to as the Sikh parliament, filed an affidavit in the Punjab and Haryana High Court defining who is a Sikh . Going by this definition, all those with shorn or even partially trimmed hair are 'patit' or apostate, even if they practise the faith in all other ways. Given that a lot of Sikhs today trim their hair, and many have done away with the turban too, the SGPC's definition would render more than 70 per cent of Sikhs apostates. Source:: Sikhism Philosophy Network http://www.sikhism.us/hard-talk/24015-shorn-of-identity.html It all began quite innocuously, when some students from Amritsar filed a petition bef