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On hearing that his former student might be about to be accepted into the French Air Force his tutor and friend 'Sligger' Urquhart went to General Henderson,... to express his consternation that a British subject should be allowed to fly for the French and not the British. His intervention worked and H S Malik became the first Sikh to fly with the Royal Flying Corps.

When Milkha Singh took to the track at the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff most people had never heard of him. But he was to make history there and is now hailed as one of India's greatest athletes. He prayed and said to God, 'I am going to try my best but India's honour is in Your hands'.

I don’t want pity. We just want acceptance. If my daughter is having a moment in the supermarket you’ll understand if I’m in your way, or holding the queue up. If I could make it go away I would but I can’t.

Women riding pillion on a two-wheeler will have to wear helmets now while Sikh women can continue to ride without a helmet.

A few lawmakers and scores of staffers were able to take a break from the final votes to attend the first langar on Capitol Hill. “The reason, also, that we’re holding this [langar] is not because there’s a misconception about Sikhism in the United States but because there’s a non-conception," said Gurchit Singh Chatta, a SikhLEAD intern.

Through tragedy, the Sikh community has triumphed. There's still a long way to go, but I'm proud to say that the Hindu American community and organizations like the Hindu American Foundation stand ready to work alongside our Sikh brothers and sisters.