The Sikh community has successfully set up eight chairs of Sikh Studies in various universities all over the U.S.A. Four of these Chairs have been set up/supported by the Sikh Foundation. Moreover numerous Punjabi language teaching programs are also been run at various US campuses…Read More

If you ask any senior middle class Kolkatan about his perceptions of Sikhs, he would likely be responding in many voices. Literature has not only made him aware of many Sikh heroes of history but in his memory of bygone years the community also dominantly figures in city’s transport sector…Read More

In primary school, tasting insults about my appearance and background, I was made to understand the nature of my difference. It would be an error to dismiss such taunts as the ignorant cruelty of children, for, as I grew, I found that these condemnations did not cease, but rather increased in number and subtlety….Read More

Modesto is known as the bible belt of California. It has deep conservative roots in farmland and a vocal Evangelical community. But increasingly, some less familiar notes are echoing through California’s Central Valley. Like many other places, Modesto is becoming more religiously diverse…Read More

The Sikh community has successfully set up eight chairs of Sikh Studies in various universities all over the U.S.A. Four of these Chairs have been set up/supported by the Sikh Foundation. Moreover numerous Punjabi language teaching programs are also been run at various US campuses…Read More

I am the grandson of a small farmer from the Malwa region of Punjab, and the son of working-class immigrants to the United States…Read More