Sir,
I am writing to you on a very important subject. During my last visit to ULS.A I felt that there is urgent need for establishing closer cultural and social links between the Sikhs of Punjab and rest of the world. It is all the more desirable as the younger generation of Sikhs living abroad is slowly loosening its moorings with their place of origin.
As you very well know the Sikh Diaspora is quite a new phenomenon about whose cultural and social implications we have yet to apply our minds. Due to lack of any coordinating Authority the Sikhs living outside Panjab in India and those living abroad are going their own way without any definite direction or guidance from such a central body.
In order therefore to establish closer religious Cultural and Social links amongst our brethren living in various parts of the world we should have a global organisations (a Supreme Sikh Council) which might meet every 4/5 years in order to give proper guidelines on purely religious Cultural and Social matters especially to help keep up the creedal purity of our great religion.
I request you to kindly give due-consideration to the proposal and in case you agree with it kindly discuss it with your friends and colleagues.
I am sending this letter to some eminent Sikhs of U.S.A. Canada U.K. Thailand etc in order to seek their views. In case there is some consensus we might take further necessary steps for setting up such a body well in time before the 300th Anniversary of The Creation of the Khalsa due to be celebrated in 1999.
I hope you will kindly let me have your views as early as possible.
Gurcharan Singh
Sikh Sewak Sabha
Patiala
Article extracted from this publication >> February 8, 1991
