click here for photographs from the Dastar Day (D-Day) event in London
This Sunday 25th September Dastar-Day. Please attend to create and show awareness or how important it is for the Sikhs to be able to wear their turbans.
Through awareness we will be able to combat the issues that many have faced across Europe because many nations do not have knowledge of important the turban is for the Sikhs.
UK/ Europe will Unite across all Major European Cities:
Berlin London Paris Madrid Rome
Objective: Highlight Dastar Identity
D Day: Dastar Day: 25th September 2011
UK/Europe will unite across all major European Cities
Dastar Identity will be Highlighted to all Across UK/Europe
Peoples Channel started Dastar Campaign April 2011 and has been reporting on all Challenges to Dastar.
The time has now come for all Sikhs and non sikhs to show their Identity and Dastar is of huge importance.
25th September 2011 Sikh Channel Peoples Channel has been granted special permission to hold a Gathering of thousands of Sikhs outside Houses of Parliament.
Sikhs under British Rule (1849-1947)
Having witnessing their bravery, British Raj preferred the recruitment of the Sikhs in their armed forces.
The Sikh soldiers faced the showers of bullets and shells of heavy guns and the fiercest enemy bombardments, wearing
"Turbans" instead of steel helmets. Sikh valour while defending "Saragarhi" in Afghanistan on 12th September 1897
is well known to the British Parliament when unprecedented bravery of all the (22) heroes was narrated.
It is a matter of great pride for the Sikhs that this battle of epic dimensions is taught to children in France,
and it is one of the eight stories of collective bravery published by UNESCO.
During the First World War while fighting in the battle of Gallipoli (Turkey) on 3rd and 4th June 1915,
14th Sikh Regiment lost 371 brave officers and soldiers. Not an inch of ground was given up and not a single
straggler came back. The ends of the enemy’s trenches were found blocked with the bodies of Sikhs and of the
enemy who died fighting at close quarters. This was the high spirit of the Turbaned Khalsa soldiers. During
the First and Second World Wars, 83,055 Turban wearing Sikh soldiers laid down their lives and 109,045 were
wounded when fighting under the command of Allied Forces. For reference one may read "British Empire, 1914/1920 War",
page 237 and "Casualties in the Second World War 1939-45", published in 1951. Sikh soldiers also died while defending
the British ruled territories – Burma, Singapore and Papua New Guinea where Rabaul Cemetery can be visited so close to Australia.
WaheGuru Ji Ka Khalsa WaheGuru Ji Ki Fateh
