Browsing Tag: Notable Sikhs

This learning experience has taught me to accept my situation as part of my life's journey. It has given me a wonderful appreciation of everything I have and how rich my life really is and cancer does not dominate it!

I was filled with doubt through much of my training that a Punjabi born, turban and bana wearing Sikh man would be accepted into this field and into patient rooms.

SLC will welcome Sarabjit (Sabi) Marwah, along with many of Canada’s top community leaders to celebrate the naming of the Sarabjit S. Marwah Learning Exchange

A Bronze Star recipient for his service in Afghanistan, Singh followed Army grooming and uniform standards from the time he entered the U.S. Military Academy

The biggest emotional journey of my life. I don't think they show even would be able to fathom how much they have given me personally or given us as a Sikh community.

Come meet Mr. SikhNet himself this month in Amritsar or in Ludhiana. Gurumustuk Singh Khalsa, founder CTO of the SikhNet.com website will be speaking...

"...he had been ordered to undergo three days of performance tests that “target him solely because of his religious beliefs.”

[VIDEO] Though she did make a stumbling pause towards the end of her act the judges, along with the audience, awarded her with a standing ovation...

It’s not the first time I’ve had an MC name-check my program, but this one is different. This is L-FRESH the Lion, a 25-year-old Sikh MC rapidly making a name for himself in Australian hip-hop. And what a name it is.

Major Rattan is one of only four Sikhs who have received hard-won accommodations in the last decade to serve in the U.S. military full time with their turbans and beards.

"My message isn't about igniting anger in those who have ever received discrimination in the past. My message is about igniting passion to make a positive change."

Harjinder Singh Khalsa known as ‘Man in Blue’ talks about how he was able to get off of drugs and alcohol, "I went to the best clinic there is, it's called HariMandir Sahib. There I had the best doctor there is, called Wahiguru."

Natasha Lyonne, gabbed nearby with Zosia Mamet. “You made it out! What you did was so great. It made me want to wear a turban.”

You may recognize Ravi Singh for his numerous relief aid efforts all around the world. In the video below he appears on the British TV show 'Surprise Surprise'.

The jets will be pulled from combat this month. Sajjan said the new approach places a greater emphasis on intelligence gathering than combat.

[VIDEO] He said that after security cleared him, he was callously asked to walk across the terminal to a public bathroom without his turban on, since there was no mirror in the private room and he couldn’t properly retie his turban.

"So the [agents] made me take off my turban in extra screening or they said I wouldn't be able to be let through to catch my flight," he wrote.

Ignorance isn't news. The stories that unravel it are.

"I think at the end of the day, hearing Balbir's story and hearing that he is essentially dedicating his life, not only to field hockey, but to his country, after a while I couldn't sleep at night and I couldn't think about anything else."

MS Nijjer wanted to serve his country and has been doing so by serving in the Canadian Armed Forces for the past twenty-one years.

More than 400 people attended the ceremony, with relatives flying in from India, Canada, Australia and America to be there. Rajinder added: “He was such a genuinely nice person, always helping people.

Ahluwalia points out that there’s a real irony in this deficiency of cultural understanding that at times rears its head at airport security. “Why do we travel? We travel to explore other cultures, to be immersed in other cultures,” he says. “Travel is an amazing tool for understanding and an airport is the portal.”

But, as soon as Mr Singh waddles into the ward, there's a frisson of excitement among its inmates. Their weary faces light up, some even manage to break into a smile.

She joined 31 other young leaders who were selected for their commitment to improving the quality of life and opportunity for young Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

A top Indian-origin lawyer in Singapore, Davinder Singh, 58, has been named as vice-chairman of the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce Commission...

... the day after Waris Singh Ahluwalia, a first-class Sikh-American passenger, was refused a seat on an AeroMexico flight from Mexico to New York ... because he refused to remove his turban.

"That's all I wanted, and here it is in a few lines — it's right there in black and white," he said. "I'm getting goosebumps right now that if this makes a difference for anyone..."

Sukhjit’s poem that drove Eddie Perfect, one of the judges, to tears was based on her own experiences. She says she first experienced discrimination when she was in year ten, and went...

At the tender age of nine and a half months, the girl from Rasulpur Kalan village near Amritsar in Punjab gave her parents a glimpse of her precocious talent as she walked her very first steps.

While he may be humble, his achievements are not, by stretch of imgination. Dr. Kamal Topped the clinical examination and was the overall best performer in the first phase of his degree.