When Sukhvir Kaur's oldest son, Anmol, a resident of Visalia in California and an immigrant from India, asked, “Mom, do I look different?”, she knew something was wrong. For a while, he refrained from going into further detail. However, later, he told his mother that his classmates had been constantly bullying him, calling him names, and making fun of his patka, a head covering worn by Sikh males.
The NYPD has somewhat less than 2,000 Sikh police officers, ten of whom are women, but just one, Gursoch, wears a turban.
Gursoch Kaur, a 22-year-old Indian-American, is the first Sikh woman in the NYPD to wear a turban. After graduating from the New York Police Academy, she was the first turban-wearing recruit to join the police. There are slightly under 2,000 Sikh police officers in the NYPD, ten of whom are women, but only one, Gursoch, wears a turban.
During the coronavirus lockdown, a grandfather who has been given the nickname, 'The Skipping Sikh' encouraged folks to pick up a rope and keep exercising. Rajinder Singh, 73, is complying with the UK lockdown, but he, like others his age, self-isolated at home to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
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