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Sandeep Kaur of Fort Wayne, Indiana Sends a Message of Love and Unity in...
After the news of another hate crime against a Sikh American last week, American Turban contributor Lori Way shares a timely poem from a young author from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Many thanks to Lori and...
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Mashing Up: A Sikh’s perspective about turning anger into hope
Our world as exists today feels overwhelmingly negative at times and particularly during this uncharacteristic election season. Recently, it seems as though the news cycle has bombarded us with...
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Bakersfield, I’m With You
Balmeet Singh A long time and proud resident of Bakersfield, California, Balmeet Singh was assaulted and had his life threatened by an individual invoking racist slurs outside a restaurant two nights...
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Prelude to a new project
This blog is now just over six years old. I started this blog in October 2010. I had just become an American citizen and being moved by the experience of the citizenship ceremony, I was compelled to...
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Visiting Sikh detainees in an American immigration detention facility
The Imperial Regional Detention Facility near El Centro, CA, where almost half of the detainees are largely Sikhs from India. In 2016, Buzzfeed News published a story about undocumented migration of...
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For the children
The Sikh prayer called Ardaas (link) is an address before the All-Pervasive Immortal that is offered regularly by Sikhs in congregation. It concludes every service and is often offered ahead of an...
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Seeking those of the Great Liberator
This month, Sikhs celebrated the appointment of Guru Hargobind as the sixth Guru of the Sikhs in 1606, following the execution of the preceding Guru, Guru Arjun, by the Mughal emperor Jehangir for...
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Guru Nanak, the destroyer
“Immersion Emergence” by Arpana Caur. I came to appreciate the significance of this year quite late and quite suddenly. Admittedly, among the daily comings and going of life, I wasn’t paying attention....
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Who will future Sikh generations choose to remember from this moment?
Sikh collective memory does not often hold fondly those from our community who have sided with oppressors. There is no shortage of such history right from the times of the Gurus. Prithi Chand, the...
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Revisiting langar
Mata Khivi is recorded in the Guru Granth Sahib for the Langar she provided to the congregation. Seva, or selfless service, has always been a core Sikh practice, but while for the benefit of all, it...
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