Vaisakhi was a culmination of the efforts of all 10 Gurus. Akaal Publishers have made a number of resources which inspire and teach about this glorious history of the 1699 Vaisakhi. We also need to remember Jalianwala Bagh massacre, the 1978 bloody Vaisakhi which led to the Shaheedia of 13 great Gursikhs and the assassination of Shaheed Bhai Surinder Singh…
New Edition Sikh Code of Conduct out now!!
The new edition of the translated ‘Sikh code of conduct’ is now available to purchase from www.akaalpublisher.com/shop and Amazon (internationally). We have updated the cover and made some edits to the text that we translated from the ‘Sankep Rehat Maryada’ of Damdami Taksal, this book is a direct translation of that publication.In this translated version we have not included the…
Human Rights letter to Supreme Court #FarmersProtest
Human rights students of Punjab University have written a letter to the Indian supreme court’s Chief Justice outlining the oppressive and unconstitutional manner in which human rights of peaceful protestors are being violated. The letter outlines the issues and then gives plenty of evidential material as appendices. The document is a seminal and historical piece which is a resource for…
Parkash of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Jee
Sikhs around the globe are celebrating the revelation of the tenth Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Jee, who embodied human form today in 1666 CE at what is today Takhat Sri Harmandir Jee, Patna Sahib, Patna, Birhar, India. Read our article ‘Dasve Avtara’ to get a brief overview of Guru Jee’s life https://akaalpublishers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Dasve-Avtara-Final.pdf Listen to our music track to…
Battle of Chamkaur
Our fictionalised account of the battle has now been added to our free literature. Please open the link to read the account https://akaalpublishers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Fictionalised-Chamkaur-dee-jang-221220-version-with-images.pdf
The information war against Indian farmers
Information wars, fake news, propaganda, and fact and fiction: all of which have become a foggy mess in the digital age. Fact-checking is unimportant and fake news is rampant. In times of uncertainty and political turmoil, information wars take centre stage to win hearts and minds of the people in order to win support and implement changes in policy and…
Farmer Protests
This is a guest blog from Pritpal Singh Mann who did a dissertation on farmer suicides and has studied the issues concerning farming in Punjab. You can either read the blog below or watch his video https://youtu.be/zPYqAa2JGD0 where he explains the issues concerning the current farmer protests in Delhi. Over the last few weeks farmers all across India have been…
Challenges to Punjab Farmers
The current farmer protests in India have been continuously vilified and simplified to play politics with the lives, futures and livelihoods of peasant farmers. Some of you may shirk at the term ‘peasant’ farmers, but in the scale of the problem, this is exactly where the problem lays, in hardworking people fighting to protect their livelihoods. This blog post is…
Bandi Shorr – The Emancipator
This blog post will focus on: Why do we, as Sikhs, celebrate Diwali? Do we only celebrate Bandi Shorr Divas? What’s the difference or are they both the same? The fifth Guru, Sri Guru Arjan Dev Jee, had been martyred whilst peacefully undergoing five days of inhumane torture at the hands of the minister, Chandhu. Chandu had enmity with the…