Indian-American Community News
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In one week alone, two turban-clad men — Sahib Singh Natt, 71, and Surjit Malhi, 50 — have been brutally beaten in California, a state that boasts the largest concentration of Sikhs in the country. Continue reading Two Sikh men brutally attacked in one-week span in central California
SikhLEAD, an initiative of the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), spearheaded the Langar highlighting Sikh values to bipartisan US lawmakers and Congressional aides who attend the annual event, now in its second year. Continue reading US Lawmakers Throng to SALDEF’s SikhLEAD ‘Langar on the Hill’
In a heart-wrenching testimony on Capitol Hill, a young Sikh boy asked the most powerful lawmakers in the world to make the attack on his mother, a victim of the shootings at the Sikh Gurudwara in Wisconsin, a hate crime. Continue reading Make Attacks on Sikhs a Hate Crime, Victim’s Son Pleads with US Senators
It was a heart-warming sight, Tuesday afternoon, as First Lady Michelle Obama lit the traditional Indian Diya (lamp) at the Diwali celebration in the ornate East Room of the White House which looked even more magnificent that day. Continue reading First Lady Hosts Diwali at White House