Make sure you submit your essay to this year’s contest. It’s great to see lots of folks excited about the topic–they’re looking for both sides of the issue and have more information about the contest online here. First place is $1000!

Inni Kaur writes:

Dear Sangat:

The film AMU needs our help. The community has not come out and shown its support and the opening of AMU in other cities is in jeopardy.

A way to show your support - even if you are not in Manhattan.

Please go to the net to the Cinema Village link and buy a one 10 dollar ticket to the
film. Just one.

This would be your contribution in internationalizing the issue of ‘84.

The link is:
http://www.readyticket.net/webticket/htmlshowtimes/27/ShowTimes39238.html

The success of AMU in NY affects the opening in the rest of the US.

If you feel 1984s story needs to be heard and the silence to be broken please buy 1 ticket and show your support. This week in crucial - please show your support.

Gur Fateh
Inni Kaur

Here’s an awesome opportunity for all you forward-thinking and open-minded Sikhs out there. Attend an interfaith conference at the expense of the World Sikh Council! I would absolutely love to do this. Right now, I’m tied up by some entrepreneurial opportunities that conflict with the dates of this program, but it’s really incredible and hopefully, one day, my career will be stable enough that I can go to these conferences as a Sikh representative. In college, I absolutely loved interfaith dialogue because I believe that it’s part of the Sikh faith. “Interfaith Dialogue is Itself Spiritual Practice,” said an extremely wise person (whose name I forget) at an interfaith conference I attended in Washington DC in 2001. That is a beautiful quote, and I think it holds true for Sikhi. Guru Nanak was the master of interfaith dialogue–he talked and debated everybody under the sun, and developed an awesome faith as a result of those discussions. I challenge all Sikhs to get out there and engaged in interfaith dialogue–go in with an open mind, and go in expecting to learn something from your fellow man, and you will be rewarded. Details on the World Sikh Council program after the jump.

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Great News! The Sikh Coalition Library Project is coming to a library near you! Have you ever been to a library, looked for Sikh books, and found almost nothing? I have! Well, now, for just $165, I can donate 10 books and 2 DVDs to the library of my choice. This is an outstanding program and is a practical way for anyone to make a difference. The hard work in selecting books and DVDs and creating a package for libraries is done–you just need to pony up some cash and pick a library. This is a really outstanding, smart project, and I’m proud to support it.