Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Saadh Sangat Ji,

We have recently launched Mixed Martial Arts classes at the sports hall above the Khalsa Fitness Gym next door to the Gurdwara Sahib. So far we have 2 calsses running which are:

1)       Class: MMA conditioning / Circuit Training / Boxercise/ striking

Day & Time : Tuesday – 7:30pm to 9:30pm

Class Fee: £1 if you are a pay monthly or annual paying member at Khalsa Fitness.

£2 for all non members.

1)       Class: Muay Thai Kick Boxing

Day & Time : Thursday – 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Class Fee: £2 if you are a pay monthly or annual paying member at Khalsa Fitness.

£3 for all non members.

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Saadh Sangat Ji,

We have taken delivery of the “i accuse” books and they are now in stock at GNG. Please ask a sevadaar in the library or email Nandeep.singh@gmail.com for more details. We currently have the english version of the book which is priced at £8 for the sangat, we are awaiting delivery of the punjabi version.

The unanswered questions, the justice delayed, the unbearable memories—the three days of 1984 when over 3000 Sikhs were slaughtered, have indelibly marked the lives of thousands more who continue to exist in a twilight of bitterness and despair.

It was outrage at this state of affairs that led Jarnail Singh, an unassuming, law- abiding journalist, to throw his shoe at home minister P Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi. He readily acknowledges that this was not an appropriate means of protest, but asks why, twenty-five years after the massacres, so little has been done to address the issues that are still unresolved and unanswered and a source of anguish to the whole community.

 

Who initiated the pogrom and why?

 

Why did the state apparatus allow it to happen?

 

Why, despite the many commissions and committees set up to investigate the events, have the perpetrators not been brought to book?

 

I Accuse is a powerful and passionate indictment of the state’s response to the killings of 1984. It explores the chain of events, the survivors’ stories and the continuing shadow it casts over their lives. Because, finally, 1984 was not an attack on the Sikh community alone; it was an attack on the idea at the very core of democracy—that every citizen, irrespective of faith and community, has a right to life, liberty and security.

‘I Accuse… opens wounds which have not yet healed. It is a must read for all those who wish that such horrendous crimes do not take place again.’ —Khushwant Singh