Browsing Tag: Sikhchic

As a child Sher attended a Catholic school. When they would go on a religious retreat he thought he would have a week off of school. He explained what they would be doing at the camp, they pray, meditate, study, think about the teachings and find out about their religion. His father's reply has stuck with him ever since, "What's Christian about that?"

SikhChic.Com announces its Chic Sikhs of 2013: Waris Singh Ahluwalia & Gurbaksh Singh

She prefers to describe herself as a book-maker, working with sequences of images that form loose narratives.

What makes a scholar? And what goes into the making of a Sikh scholar?

It was like switching a machine on an off: militancy on, militancy off. And this gave me a chilling realization that the internal chaos of the Sikhs, just like the external chaos of Punjab, had been, and continued to be, cynically exploited by powers much greater than them.

The greatest lesson was observing how the Sikh and other minority communities could be so easily manipulated and yet remain utterly oblivious of it.

In regard to Sikhi, lots of things grab me but I think that’s a conversation for another time. But if I had to pin-point one or two, what really motivates me is a desire to see the educational level of the community elevated by a significant degree.

Did Sikhs ever wear helmets in their history? Simple question, complex answer.

There is no orator, no wordsmith, no one with any degree of facility with language or image or profile, who has won over the media skeptics as freely as he has.

All Punjabis should sow at least a tree each of Bohar, Pippal and Neem. These trees are essential to our ecosystem.

A Book Review by ANGAD SINGH

A Sikh Research Institute Workshop Reviewed by MANJYOT KAUR (courtesy of sikhchic.com)

An Interview and a Book Review by Rosalia Scalia.