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ABSTRACTS OF SIKH STUDIES : APRIL-JUNE 2005 / 537 NS
Maj Gen (Dr) Jaswant Singh, Secretary of the Institute of Sikh
Studies participated in a National Seminar on National Integration and
Communal Harmony - Challenges and Action Plans at Guru Jambheshwar
University, Hissar and chaired the first Session.
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SEMINAR ON 21ST INTERNATIONAL PUNJABI CONFERENCE
The Punjabi University, Patiala organized the 21st International
Punjabi Conference on March 10-12, 2005. Its second day afternoon
session was presided over by Bhai Ashok Singh Bagrian, Vice-President,
Institute of Sikh Studies.
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DR & MRS S S SODHI VISIT THE INSTITUTE
Dr S S Sodhi and his wife Satpal Kaur Sodhi visited the Institute
of Sikh Studies on March 4, 2005. They were welcomed by the
President, Sardar Gurdev Singh. Both of them addressed the members.
During her teaching career, Mrs Sodhi, a great scholar, conducted
workshops and in-service trainings for school teachers and
administrators in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is invited to give
presentations and addresses to important conferences. Unfortunately,
she got a stroke in 2000 and lost her speech. She thought over it and
accepted it as the will of God and as a blessing. A miracle happened,
slowly she regained her speech. She wrote in 2003 a popular book,
Live Authentically and Just Be; later she authored The Message of Jap Ji.
She has now devoted her life in the service of humanity and to spreading
the message of gurbani.
Dr Sodhi is already known to the readers for his articles exposing
the intentional mis-representations of the Sikh heritage by the McLeod
group. Dr Sodhi stated that IOSS has constantly taken sound positions
on various issues concerning the Sikhs and the people looked to it to
provide guidance and leadership for proper functioning of various Sikh
institutions. Dr Sodhi further stated that he would not only marshal
support for early organisation of the International Sikh Confederation
abroad, but he, along with his associates in North America, would
also come to Chandigarh in November 2005 to participate in the IOSS
seminar that will deliberate on the subject of organisation of the
International Sikh Confederation. He suggested that it is time to