Browsing Tag: Sardar

Urban Sardar also hopes that by highlighting the beauty and confidence of a Sikh man in a dastar, some Sikh women who currently find the dastar to be unattractive, will change their mind. “Both Kaurs and Singhs should be solid in their values so they can live up to their potential. ”

Interestingly, every guy with a dastaar on his head is dubbed “Sardar Ji”… not much thought goes into that - it’s just the way it is. I guess it does come with the territory…after all, the dastaar our men (and some women) don is reflective of royalty, isn’t it? However, I think we need to be a little more careful just throwing that word around.

I have been a Sikh for over twenty years. It was a mere two weeks before 9-11 when I decided to wear the Dastar and stop cutting my hair. My timing, of course, could have been better.

I was standing at jalandhar station when my attention went towards a Sikh youth standing near me wearing a Black turban having a long beard and wearing a kirpan over his shirt looking similar to a terrorist...