It was early morning on 15 April, 1943 that I was born to my mother Mohinder Kaur and father Arjan Singh at Patiala. The city also served as the Capital of Pepsu – a short lived State within East Punjab carved out after 1947. The area was known as Kutcha Patiala. I was the fourth child. I was brought in a Sikh Family… Read More

Sikhs have recently realized that our heritage needs to be preserved and our past needs to have a future. Many scholars have conducted numerous studies and undertaken conservational efforts in protecting Sikh relics… Read More

First, life. Then, its expression. The plum and the peach, if they are alive, must burst into a white universe of flowers when spring comes. Out of every bud a stream of flowers flows and engulfs them entire… Read Me

Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s “Samadh” or the funerary memorial built for him by his successors after his death in 1839 is significant for more than one reason; it commemorates the life… Read More

Next in our Sikh Arts Forum we present Carved Doors of the Gateway to Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Samadhi by Dr Nadhra Khan… Read More

As a Sikh, I had the privilege of retaining the best cultural values of both Punjab and of the West, thus enriching my sensibilities & attitudes. I was a surgeon for about thirty years and now am an artist… Read More

San Francisco has a gallery devoted to Sikh art. I believe this gallery is one of very few in the world devoted to displaying and in the process educating all of us in what has been a neglected genre of art… Read More