Selected Editorials - The Sikh Bulletin
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see S. Gurbakhsh Singh Kala Afghana in Seattle, Washington, which I did, and I invited S. Kala Afghana<br />
to visit us at <strong>Sikh</strong> Center Roseville for a week or two and he very kindly agreed.<br />
I then spread the word around Sacramento to invite people with knowledge of Gurbani<br />
to come to listen to him. Sarbjit Singh Sandhu was one of them and he brought with him late S. Gian<br />
Singh of Elk Grove, who not only commented favourably on discourses of S. Kala Afghana but also<br />
became a very active member of our reform movement. His<br />
own discourses on Gurbani<br />
were also extremely valuable and he<br />
gave freely of his time. He is sorely missed. He was a graduate of both the University of New Delhi and<br />
Missionary College Delhi.<br />
Gian Singh 1941-Feb. 11, 2013 Dr. Sulakhan Singh Dhillon (1927-2004) Gurpal Singh Khaira<br />
Soon after we started on this course of reformation in <strong>Sikh</strong>i, I had the good fortune of meeting late Dr.<br />
Sulakhan Singh Dhillon of Berkeley, California. I being so green in matters of knowledge of Gurbani and<br />
paucity of acquaintance with scholars in this field, he took me under his wings, so to speak. In the words<br />
of his wife, Darleen Dhillon, “He was a wonderful <strong>Sikh</strong>, embodying all the best teachings, and showing<br />
by example what a <strong>Sikh</strong> should be. He was my hero and best friend as well as my dear husband of 42<br />
years.”<br />
I first met him in his role as a founder member of the group that started teaching of Panjabi at the U. C.<br />
Berkeley. He helped me hold educational and informational seminars at the <strong>Sikh</strong> Center Roseville to<br />
which he brought as speakers and resource persons educators from the faculties at the University of <strong>The</strong><br />
Pacific in Stockton and Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B. C., Canada. His passing, in blissful sleep,<br />
was a great personal loss to me but even more so for the <strong>Sikh</strong> community because he was a unifier and a<br />
bridge builder.<br />
He helped arrange our first annual conference in November 1999 to which Dr. Pashaura Singh was<br />
especially invited, his first appearance at a gathering of <strong>Sikh</strong>s since his thesis controversy. Notable<br />
achievements of this conference were:<br />
1. Adoption of Nanakshahi Calendar, as presented by Pal<br />
2. Singh Purewal, in its original form, at this conference, long before the SGPC finally approved it.<br />
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