Selected Editorials - The Sikh Bulletin
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Bombay, the Slumdog Millionaire city, was a pleasant contrast to Delhi. Both are big and home to India’s<br />
ethnic diversity but Bombay appeared to be much cleaner and more accepting of India’s ethnic diversity<br />
than New Delhi and much safer. While Delhi newspapers carried daily stories of rapes and murder, it was<br />
pleasantly surprising to see young couples of all religious beliefs, including scarf clad young Muslim<br />
women and, even single young women, strolling and jogging on the Marine Drive across from our hotel<br />
in Nariman Point. <strong>The</strong> best pleasant surprise was Udaipur, the City of Lakes, the cleanest city of all that<br />
we visited.<br />
<strong>The</strong> culmination of this trip was the three night stop in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the city of the<br />
future, in the present, a mangal in the desert, with a crowning jewel for a <strong>Sikh</strong>, not the Burj Khalifa, but<br />
Gurudwara Guru Nanak Darbar. I had wanted to see it in person since 2012 when I first reported about it<br />
in the September-October 2012 issue of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Sikh</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong>.<br />
Result of this wish fulfillment is this special issue of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Sikh</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> on this Gurudwara.<br />
Our tour manager/guide, Mr. Kapil Rohatgi, was so eloquent and knowledgeable about India that I<br />
requested him to write for this issue what he was telling the tourists. His article appears very last.<br />
Hardev Singh Shergill<br />
*****<br />
GURU NANAK DARBAR GURUDWARA, DUBAI<br />
[From <strong>The</strong> <strong>Sikh</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> March-April 2014]<br />
On the way back from India I had planned to stop over in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to visit the first<br />
ever in the Arab world, Guru Nanak Darbar Gurudwara. I am so glad that I was not only able to do<br />
just that but also get to meet, face to face, with the person whose leadership brought this all about, Mr.<br />
Surender Singh Kandhari.<br />
Other than the first article, which is a reproduction of first reference to this Gurudwara in the September-<br />
October 2012 issue of the <strong>Sikh</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong>, most of the material in this issue has been provided by him; rest<br />
has been found on google.<br />
According to THE SIKH 100, “Surender Singh is youngest President of the Automobile Association of<br />
Andhra Pradesh and youngest Captain of the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai. Chairman of Al Dobowi<br />
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