Many Sikh artists are influenced deeply by their faith. Baljinder Kaur’s naif representations, Harjinder Singh Sunner’s symbolic works, and Keerat Kaur’s surreal masterpieces all relay key aspects of Sikh life in different ways. The importance of family, nature, and Sikh literature all find their ways into pieces whose beauty capture the heart and mind in an instance.
Jaswant Singh Khalra was "disappeared" by Punjab police months after alerting Ottawa of the widespread killings of Sikhs.
We are saddened by the violence in Afghanistan, and grateful for those who have recently been rescued. In addition, we call on our communities to be vigilant and exercise caution due to the potential for backlash against Sikhs.
I am grateful to Daljit Bajwa (91) and his wife Guddy Bajwa for providing salient features of the biography of his illustrious father, Bal Singh Bajwa, who was my Role Model in school days. I owe my thanks to Prem Singh Kahlon and his wife Darshan Bhatti Kahlon for the supply of material for collating the biography of Prem Kahlon, my Role Model in College days.
As the fear of religious persecution at the hands of the Taliban weighs heavily on the minds of Afghanistan’s last generation of Sikh and Hindu communities, support groups have urged Australia to bring them over as refugees to a life of safety.
We have a delicate job of safeguarding, protecting these fledgling tangibles as well as intangible assets for our future generation. Let us pray and make some concrete efforts to safeguard those.
In such sensitive times it is important for the world-wide Sikh community to be aware that the Sikh turban and beard may be confused with media images of Taliban leaders who have a similar appearance.
The very concept of focusing on a few hundred meritorious by Govt and NGOs rather than focusing on improving the weak link primary education in an abysmal failure of the Public education system catering to the majority poor and lower middle class was ill conceived... The solution proposed is as follows:
Sarbpreet Singh does not need any introduction. He has already established his credentials as an author of the critically acclaimed ‘Night of the Restless Spirits’ and ‘The Camel Merchants of Philadelphia’.
My story today runs about a full decade and is largely the trek of one lady, a New Yorker whose religious affiliation I will not reveal. She became curious about Sikhs... And then in a trice she became Amritdhari. Just imagine that. She even changed her name for a landmark Sikh name.