The Arts

Tenth Sikhtoons Caption Contest now open
Bollywood is getting ready to capture 1980's Punjab for you with an upcoming film featuring Sanjay Dutt as KPS Gill and Amitabh Bachchan as a Punjab police officer.
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Guru Hargobind - Lord of Miri Piri
This fantastic,powerful, potent and deep painting portrays the Sixth Guru, Hargobind - who erected the Akal Takht in the 17th century at the young age of 11 years old, to be the seat of Sikh Temporal Authority - along with scenes from 1984.
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New info on Sikh Maharani, Jind Kaur, uncovered
This week, Peter Bance published “Sovereign, Squire and Rebel: Maharajah Duleep Singh and the Heirs of a Lost Kingdom.”
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Inspirational Music Video
The message to Sikh men of the latest Punjabi music video by artist, Taranampreet: "Don’t come around without unshorn hair and turban!"
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Films explore young gangsters in the Sikh community in Vancouver, BC
Controversial documentary elicits death threats...
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More turbaned Sikhs in Bollywood
"Earlier, we had seen that a turbaned character is portrayed in a comical sense to add some humour to the movie. But now a turbaned hero sporting a beard is shown as a central character."
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The Boy With The Topknot
I was absolutely delighted last year when I saw the shelves of a Central London bookshop dominated by a book whose jacket featured the photograph of a delicate-looking nine year old Sikh boy tensely staring out.
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More Sikh Art: mool mantra through oil paintings
The oil paintings below are the work of Jaswant Singh Zafar. He’s a poet, photographer, and painter in his free time and an engineer in Ludhiana by day.
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Minar-e-Khalsa
Gulab Singh learned to engrave from his father Sardar Santokh Singh and began an independent studio where he would do his own engraving
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Kosse Chanan II Released
Writers hailing from Punjab and other states of India, USA, UK, Australia, Spain, Philippines and Hong Kong have written in the genres of geet, ghazal, nazm and blank verse in this book.
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