Hyderabad, Nov. 30 -- India to celebrate 551th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak - the founder of Sikhism and first of the 10 religious gurus of the Sikhs, today.

Guru Nanak Jayanti, the foremost of all the Gurupurabs or anniversaries of the 10 Sikh Gurus, is the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith, who ushered in a new wave in religion. The first of the 10 Sikh Gurus, Guru Nanak was born in 1469 at Talwandi, near Lahore. The disinclination to accept the practice of several religions in society, professing different deities drove the much-travelled leader to break free from the shackles of religious diversity and establish a religion based on a single God who is the eternal truth.

The festive event of Guru N...