Earlier, Pal Singh Purewal, a Canada-based Sikh intellectual who crafted the Nanakshahi calendar had requested Akal Takht Jathedar to consult him before making any change in it.
Purewal objected to the amendments saying it was highly objectionable as any change in the calendar would reduce it to a "carbon copy of Bikrami Calendar". He claimed the Nanakshahi calendar was based on religious, historical and scientific research of many years. Link
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Don't Call It The Nanakshahi Calendar Anymore, Its The Bikrami Calendar
Since you've eliminated the basic basis of why the Nanakshahi calendar was created and the expert in charge of creating it is deadset against changing it, how can you call it the Nanaksahi calendar. Its back to the Bikrami calendar now. Also love how the Akal Takht Jathedar couldn't even be bothered to invite the other 4 Jathedars to discuss the matter.
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Wouldn't it be interesting to know the identity of the Pandits in Varanasi that will set the dates for our Gurpurabs now.
We ask a Sikh child what is the date of the Gurtagaddi divas of the Guru Granth Sahib and the answer will be - "wait, let me ask the Pandit".
:-(
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