Browsing Tag: Literature

Puran Singh’s Century-old Advice To Sikhs.

The Sikh Foundation presented Sikh Authors Speak, a panel discussion and celebration, in Hayward, California. Four writers—Parveen Kaur Dhillon, Meeta Kaur, Jessi Kaur, and Pushpinder Kaur—spoke about their published works, their sources of inspiration, and their future plans.

Today, a new project seeks to explore further the love expressed by Sikh women in its many forms, as told in their own voice. An anthology of short stories written by Sikh women about their experiences in love is being collected

The trend within English fiction is interesting. There was a small bump around 1810, during which time the Sikh king Maharaja Ranjit Singh was conglomerating neighboring Sikh kingdoms. There was a large increase around 1850, when the British defeated the Sikhs and assumed control of Ranjit Singh’s kingdom.

The philosopher Suzanne Langer once wrote, “though the material of poetry is verbal, its import is not the literal assertion made in the words but the way the assertion is made and this involves the sound, the tempo … and the unifying all-embracing artifice of rhythm.”

..wildly entertaining, I have always been much more fascinated by Punjabi folktales that my parents used to tell me on Sunday mornings in bed, or just before me and my sister went to sleep at night. Some of my earliest memories that I can recall with clarity are of my mum and dad telling me the unadulterated story of the sparrow and the crow (ik si chirri, te ik si kaan), which many of you may be familiar with.

In this realm of mostly male voices, Ms. Kaur-Singh has taken an original position on a much-needed project...

Mark your calendars for June 18 -19 - the Kaur Foundation and the Asian Division of the Library of Congress have teamed up to undertake a unique initiative, to institutionalize knowledge by and about the Sikh community for future generations.

Known for his great work on the world wars depicting Sikhs’ contribution to the world during the wars, this book reveals the history of Sikhs living in Holland.