Warp Speed Ahead with Nishkam

After the initial phone calls and emails, things really began to move ahead at warp speed when it came to my involvement with Nishkam.

Chandran and Karamjit Mann were two key individuals that brought me up to speed on where things were with Nishkam Canada. In June, I had the pleasure of meeting some of the key people that had been driving forward the Nishkam message in Canada, both on their personal front and had been pursuing the setting up of Nishkam Canada as a charity. I also met a young Rajwinder Singh Sandhu at this first meeting and his working for the CCRA gave us tremendous confidence and information that we were on the right path.

Rajwinder along with others was able to direct me to follow all the paperwork required that we had to file both with the Federal government and the Ontario government. Rajwinder was able to locate the person in charge of the Nishkam file so that we could find out what the hold up was with respect to the creation of this new charity to be called “Nishkam Sikh Welfare Organization, Canada”.

By this time I also had done a draft on what the new Nishkam India web site should look like as the previous site was being updated in patches and the navigation was not intuitive at all. Chandran introduced me to Gurinder Singh Rahal (http://www.xenixdesign.com/), person that I have only met on the hone till date. Gurinder was kind enough to take time out and put up a brand new Nishkam India site on a day when the guests had started to our in for his nephews birthday party. I could hear the guests in the background but Gurinder sat at his desk until the web site was uploaded.

It was important to hit the time line because there was an article in the Sikh Spectrum (www.sikhspectrum) that I had written on www.nishkam.org and its founders that was going to be carried and we wanted the new web site to live before that article was live on the world wide web. That article can be read at http://www.sikhspectrum.com/022005/nishkam_hsk.htm