Browsing Tag: Sikh Bullying

[VIDEO] Jagjeet won a Nikon D810 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Cannes for his film entitled ‘Voiceless – Stop the Bullies’. ‘I’m pleased to win an award for this particular film as it’s a project that sits close to my heart."

Do I dare explain myself to them? speak to those resounding, deaf ears ~ make them see their ill-illumined dungeons? Why don’t they learn to know me? Why don’t they know to learn me?

We Sikhs are no strangers to bullying and harassment......And minorities make attractive targets; the more vulnerable they appear the more tempting to pick on.

To his classmates, the patka was a license to stare, taunt, isolate, punch and kick him. It was a target to knock off his head.... “I was very resistant,” Pradhdeep said, recalling the public patka tying. But he said he understands the importance of demystifying Sikhism for non-Sikhs.