Dr. SS Bhatti

Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth. Moon’s orbit is inclined at an angle to the Earth’s (Elliptic) path around the Sun. Hence, the Moon usually passes above or below the Sun as seen from the Earth and thus there is no eclipse every time. The proper alignment for…

“Thanksgivings” is a day of prayer and thanking God for His various blessings. In some countries, people express gratitude for their military victory or the end of a drought. Others celebrate the arrival of their rich harvests. The U.S.  Congress proclaimed a national holiday upon the enactment of the country’s Constitution. Later, the date was left to…

Professor (Dr) Surjit Singh Bhatti, Calgary (Canada) Imagine how dull the world would appear if all objects around us had only one color. Our view of everything would become ‘monochromatic’. The hundreds of colors we see include black, white, gray, tans, and browns, which are called ‘Neutral colors’. It is the riot of colors that…

To appreciate the new calendar given by Sardar Pal Singh Purewal, we take a brief look at other calendars in vogue. Julian Calendar was among the earliest Christian Era (CE) calendars and was introduced in 46 BC by the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar (100 – 44 BC). It was based on the observation that the…

(A Festival called Baba Sheikh Farid Āgman Purab is celebrated at Faridkot every year from 21 to 23 September) Baba Sheikh Farid, whose full name was “Fariduddin Masood Ganj-i-Shakar”, was a distinguished  Punjabi Muslim preacher and mystic. Born in a village near Multan (now in Pakistan), he was a descendant of the family of Emperor Farukh Shah of Kabul, and his father…

Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush was born (in a Sikh family) on  22nd August 1935 in the village of Roorkee, in the Jalandhar district of Punjab. He graduated from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, in 1955 and then went to the USA where he earned his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California, Davis, in…

A Tribute to Bhagat Puran Singh of Amritsar, the humanitarian Sikh social servant, who died on 5 August 1992, serving the poor and helpless. Bhagat Puran Singh was born to Mata Mehtab Kaur on 4th June 1904 in a Sanatani Family in village Rajewal, in district Ludhiana. His father, Lala Shibu Mal, was a moneylender….

By Professor (Dr) Surjit Singh Bhatti A five-year-old boy in Punjab is taken seriously ill and is declared (almost) dead after treatment did not show any results. However, the efforts of a modest local physician, to everyone’s surprise,  miraculously succeeded in reviving him.  The father, a Sikh Station Master at Ferozepur in British-Indian Railways, was…

“Sultan-ul-Quam” Nawab Jassa Singh Ahluwalia (1718–1783) was a prominent Sikh Ruler who rose to power during the period after the death of the brave Sikh General Baba Banda Singh Bahadur. He was the General who laid the foundations of the powerful Sikh Empire established in 1801 by Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839). There were 12 independent Sikh confederacies (called Missals),…

(Based on the book: Healthy at 100 – by John Robbins) There are four prominent areas in the world which have the largest populations of men and women aged above 100. Many of them live healthy even up to 150 years. The lifestyles of people in these regions were investigated by several scientists in great…