Akal Academy (Baru Sahib) Partners with KhojGurbani – A Crowdsourcing Platform for Gurbani!

To be launched on Vaisakhi…

Read, Understand and Discuss the Japji Sahib with KhojGurbani Community

KhojGurbani, an online platform with a mission to make the Guru Granth Sahib accessible to and exciting for the common Sikh, launches on Vaisakhi – April 14, 2014.

“Sikhs who want to read Gurbani but do not have the tools and a support network to do so, will now be able to embark on their journey to start learning to read and understand the nuances of Gurbani,” said Harvinder Singh, KhojGurbani’s founder.

KhojGurbani’s Editorial Board (http://khojgurbani.org/about) will provide important questions and resources to begin the conversation with Japji Sahib, with a focus on a few stanzas (pauris) each week. The goal is to eventually read the entire Guru Granth Sahib together and write a detailed commentary on it with a new idiomatic English translation.

Each week the platform will present a section from the Guru Granth Sahib for worldwide study and discussion. A number of weekly online video-based discussion groups will be facilitated to discuss assigned Shabads. We will involve Sikhs with deep expertise in exegesis of the Guru Granth Sahib in these video discussions, which will be broadcasted through our platform and our YouTube channel. In addition, audio and written responses to the Shabad or the section would be solicited and crowdsourced. This exercise would allow eminent intellectuals and laypersons alike to engage with one another across different mediums and languages, all enabled by an online platform.

The following link gives a glimpse of the platform and the kind of tools and resources we have assembled at one place:

http://khojgurbani.org/

Lets join and make the study of Gurbani exciting and fashionable!

~ Deeksha Singh
~ New Delhi, 12 April ’14