“I woke up this morning with a feeling I’ve never had before. It truly felt like cloud nine times a thousand. I’m really proud to represent CU, Colorado, women and the Sikh community.”
"My strong belief system, rooted in the teachings of Sikhism, reinforces my personal drive to shed light into the darkest aspects of society. I want people who read or watch my stories to come away with information that can benefit their families and enrich the quality of their lives,” said Randhawa.
Believed to be the first Sikh in Canada to get this award/honor !
Rupi Kaur details how she went from self-published student poet to the top of the New York Times best-seller list with fans like Sam Smith tattooing her artwork, plus she shares a poem from her second collection, 'The Sun and Her Flowers'.
Jeslin Kaur Kera, the first Indian-born Sikh, to win the Order of Pegasus, the highest award a student can attain at University of Central Florida.
Singh is the first and only Sikh American woman to have won this remarkably competitive and prestigious scholarship.
In 2017 the Sikh Museum Initiative based in Leicester undertook a major exhibition looking at the often-neglected Anglo Sikh Wars of the eighteenth century.
I am so honored to receive all of these awards, and I know it’s only by God’s grace that I am able to play well. At the end of my junior year, I was award the Yale Book Award, which is given to one person in the grade.
He says the support received from MPs including MP for Beaconsfield Dominic Grieve and Windsor MP Adam Afriyie has been ‘overwhelming’ and said to get even 100 signatures in Parliament would have been ‘quite something’.