07 January 2013
Returning to Belgium
Rotterdam Centraal – NS Double-decker EMU
Rotterdam Centraal – NS Double-decker EMU
Rotterdam Centraal – FYRA Hispeed to Brussel
Rotterdam Centraal – FYRA Hispeed to Brussel
Rotterdam Centraal – FYRA Hispeed to Brussel
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More Belgian pictures to follow
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue
Den Haag – The Hague
4 January 2013
Delftselaan, Ravidas Temple
Shri Guru Ravidass Temple
Delftselaan 105
2512 RC Den Haag (The Hague)
Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha
Herman Costerstraat 140
2571 PC Den Haag
Shri Guru Singh Sabha
Scheepersstraat 54
2572 AL Den Haag (The Hague)
Graskopstraat, Transvaalbuurt
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Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue
Grote Markt – Amarjit Singh
Grote Markt – Man in Blue and Theodorus
Ieper – Ypres 11 November 2012
Belgian Blue Berets
Taking part in the Poppy Parade
Belgian soldiers
Taking part in the Poppy Parade
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Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue
Young Kirtanis
Afghan Sardars
Afghan Sardars
Many Afghan families in Belgium are in a difficult situation: They get no political asylum and get little support. They are not allowed to work. Anybody that knows anything about the present situation in Afghanistan will know that going back to Kabul, Jalalabad, Ghazni or Kandahar is not an option for members of religious minorities. The children go to school and speak perfect Dutch or French, but when they finish their studies they will not be able to get a job !
Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Derby sent a van load of Sikhs to Liège
Harjinder Singh & Gurmit Singh
The last of the Luik / Liège Kirtan Darbar pictures
Guru Nanak Prakash Gurdwara
625 Rue Saint Leonard
B-4000 Liège
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Pictures of Bristol UK to follow
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue
Cute small girls
Serious work !
Left junior Saini girl, middle her sister Palwinder Kaur and right Navdeep Kaur
Small persons in front
Palki Sahib, the throne of the Guru Granth Sahib
Too many Singhs !
Sikhs from other areas of Belgium and from the UK were also present
Guru Nanak Prakash Gurdwara
625 Rue Saint Leonard
B-4000 Liège
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Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue
Rohit Mahajan in London
MC Mary Kom, trailblazing India and Manipur boxer, can almost do magic. She stops punches on her face and barely flinches, she delivers them with lightning speed and great accuracy. But she’s no magician, she isn’t a master of alchemy – she needed to be nothing but that as she attempted to change her bronze into gold or silver on Wednesday.
It wasn’t to be, and Mary had to be satisfied with the bronze medal she’d ensured for herself by reaching the semifinals.
To beat Great Britain’s Nicola Adams in the semifinals, Mary needed to be a few inches taller, she needed to be much quicker on her feet and with her fists. She needed to be someone else – someone other than a 46kg, 5ft 2in fighter who moved up from 46-48kg to 51kg category to be able to compete in the London Olympic Games.
Mary won her first two rounds without much bother but, confronted with a superior 51kg boxer today, it was amply evident that she was out of her class today. Nicola, three inches taller than Mary, was quicker on her feet and her punches were heavier. Nicola also has a baffling ability to change from orthodox to southpaw stance during a fight – Mary was thoroughly confounded by this British package.
Mary, in red, was the early aggressor, but Nicola was the first to score. Just 45 seconds into the first round, as the two boxers got into a clinch, the home boxer was able to pull away and quickly land a left jab, followed by a strong right-left combo on Mary’s face. That put Nicola 3-1 in the first round.
That one exchange set the tone for the rest of the round, rest of the bout. The two-point advantage proved impossible to overturn – as hard as she tried, Mary found it practically impossible to reach Nicola. The British boxer was very quick on her feet, and Mary had to dive into her, becoming extremely vulnerable herself, as she desperately tried to score points. Almost every time, Nicola was able to take a step back and launch a successful counter on the Indian.
Mary was down 2-5 after the second round – her initial attacks were met by greater aggression from Nicola, who landed another strong combination, and later an uppercut that must have burnt Mary’s face.
Nicola’s attacks came from a height and distance that Mary was unable to close; Mary was increasingly ragged and untidy in her boxing. Nicola was scoring with simple, straight punches while Mary’s hooks were becoming wild and more ineffective. It was 8-4 for Nicola after the third round, and the writing was on the wall for Mary.
Mary did land a good right-left combination in the final round, but Nicola was able to counter, and also keep away from harm’s way. Later, Nicola said that she’d been ready for her legendary Indian opponent. “I had studied her bouts, and I knew what I had to do,” she said. “We had a strategy in place, and it worked perfectly for us.”
Mary has an amazing past: Difficult beginnings, tough initial steps in her chosen sport – boxing, of all things. She’s a five-time world champion. But also in her past is her existence as a small boxer, the lightest boxer that can be. On Wednesday, her past caught up with Mary – she was unable to be better than third in her adopted weight category. She said sorry for this, but she has to be nothing but proud of what she’d done.
Dear responsible friend,
On behalf of the Afghan Hindu and Sikh community living in Belgium we write you to please help us to stop deportation of Afghan Hindus & Sikhs from Belgium.
Dear Madam, dear Sir,
We kindly request you for your attention and some minutes of your precious time to read this appeal and save many innocent human lives.
We are a small community of Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan. We had to leave our country, because in last decade it was almost impossible for our society to survive in this country. There we face a lot of problems, since most of the people do not recognize us as real inhabitants and try to torture us within the limits of all their available resources above all our inconceivability.
We are discriminated in all sectors and are regularly forced from different groups or even individuals to convert to Islam. Our children can not visit a school due to the fact that they are abused from other schoolmates and even their teachers.
Though theoretically and superficially some responsible authorities claim equal rights for all religions but it has never been put into the practice. Our appeals or complaints never reach the high authorities because the officers in the administration throw them in the dustbins even in our presence with violence and offence.
All our possessions are taken away. Even our single crematorium in Kabul, where we could burn the died bodies in accordance to the Hindu and Sikh religion was snatched away and no action was taken by the Afghan authorities.
For these and many other similar reasons, some of us are asylum seekers in Belgium. Unfortunately their asylum appeal is rejected and they are going to be deport to Afghanistan, where a survival even in short terms will not be possible.
Recently we demonstrated in Germany during a visit of the President of Afghanistan, but he or any of his representative did not notice us at all. We are a relatively very small community and that is why we can not organise big demonstration and therefore we are not taken seriously for our problems.
You are our last hope. Please save the lives of our Hindus and Sikhs families living in Belgium and stop this deportation.
Many cordially thanks for your support!
Your faithfully,
On behalf of all asylum seekers of Afghan Hindus and Sikhs community living in Belgium,
Ramnath Talwar
Afghan Sikh Community Leaders in Britain urging UK, Dutch, Belgian and all other European Governments to stop deportation of all Afghans – Sikhs, Hindus & Muslims.
Pritpal Singh Southall UK
pritpalsingh1699@hotmail.co.uk
Harjinder Singh Sint-Truiden Belgium
harjindersingh_amritsar@yahoo.com
