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Guru Granth Sahib deserves readers across the globe, who understand and grapple with their own understanding of it

Shelley Walia

Updated At : 05:43 AM Oct 03, 2026 IST

THERE are few acts of reverence in Sikh life more familiar, or more moving, than the sight of Guru Granth Sahib being carried on the head. The Saroop is opened with ceremony, placed with care and carried with a reverence that has become part of the lived grammar of Sikh faith. Beadbi is therefore not an abstract offence. To treat Guru Granth Sahib with contempt, to damage it deliberately or to violate the practices through which its sanctity is preserved is to wound something deeply ingrained in the community.

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has come out every day over the last 145 years. THE TRIBUNE was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist of the time. The newspaper is run by a five-member Trust, which is chaired by Shri N N Vohra, former Governor of J&K State (2008-2018); as well as Justice S S Sodhi, former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court; Shri Gurbachan Jagat, former Governor of Manipur; Lt Gen. Shamsher Singh Mehta, former Western Army Commander; Shri Paramjit Singh Patwalia, Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court.

THE TRIBUNE is free, objective, and independent. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language, are the hallmarks of the paper.

The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

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Allowing the Word to reach libraries and homes

Guru Granth Sahib deserves readers across the globe, who understand and grapple with their own understanding of it

Shelley Walia

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