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    Join us for a special session in the Sikhs in Action webinar series featuring Washington State Senator Manka Dhingra, Kiran Kaur Gill, and Mallika Kaur. This one-hour conversation explores how the Sikh principles of Nirbhau (fearlessness) and Nirvair (compassion without enmity) shape Sikh women’s leadership in public life. From policy and advocacy to community care […]

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Founded by Dr. Narinder S Kapany in 1967, the Sikh Foundation has been working to promote the heritage and future of Sikhism.​ We are a non-profit non-political charitable organization (EIN: 23-7035676).

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  • Nirbhau Nirvair: Courage, Compassion, and Sikh Women’s Leadership

    Join us for a special session in the Sikhs in Action webinar series featuring Washington State Senator Manka Dhingra, Kiran Kaur Gill, and Mallika Kaur. This one-hour conversation explores how the Sikh principles of Nirbhau (fearlessness) and Nirvair (compassion without enmity) shape Sikh women’s leadership in public life. From policy and advocacy to community care […]

  • Sikhs in America: Why History Matters Now

    This conversation, a part of our Sikhs in Action series, will reflect on early Sikh migration and settlement in the United States and consider how these histories continue to shape Sikh American identity today. Why does history feel especially urgent in the current moment? What role do archives, public memory, education, and storytelling play in […]

  • Punjabi Poetica’s sublime Heer by Waris Shah

    A review by Jessi Kaur It took me a while to process my response to Punjabi Poetica’s Heer. My literary sensitivity was shaped by the verses of Shakespeare, the pantheism of Emerson, the wisdom of Walt Whitman and other Western poets and writers. I was trained to deconstruct Western narratives, but remained, a stranger to […]

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