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Assessing the impact of discrimination on North American Sikhs

October 1, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Over the past week, I have spoken to several Sikhs who shared how personally upset they felt about the attack on Dr. Prabhjot Singh in New York just over a week ago. In the context of repeated attacks on innocent Sikh Americans in recent years, this most recent incident has left many with increasing senses of frustration, disappointment, and vulnerability. The solution to the issue of hate crimes against our community is not an easy one to parse, and this, […]

Categories: Education, Reports/Studies • Tags: Boston, Dr. Kiran S. K. Arora, hate crime, Massachusetts, mental health, Prabhjot Singh, Research, University of Massachusetts

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Happy 4th of July!

July 4, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

  During a conversation last night, a friend reminded me of one of the earliest accounts of a Sikh in the United States, in which a merchant trader from Massachusetts named Captain Stephen Phillips wrote in his journal about a Sikh man that he brought back from India in the late 1700s: After his retirement in the late 1700s, he apparently brought back to his home town of Salem a tall, intrepid Sikh who ‘stalked around town in the turban and […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Events • Tags: Declaration of Independence, Fourth of July, freedom of religion, Independence Day, Massachusetts, Salem, Stephen Phillips, William Bentley

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Kultar's Mime playbill. (Source: United for Justice with Peace)

New MA theater company debuts play about 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms

June 27, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The Boston Globe features a young theater company in Hopkinton, Massachusetts (30 miles west of Boston), called Two Paths Productions. Started by a group of teens, their first production is called Kultar’s Mime, an adaptation of the poem of the same name by Sarbpreet Singh (who has been featured on this blog before) about the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms in New Delhi, India, in which thousands of Sikhs were murdered in organized killing after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira […]

Categories: 1984, Art, Events, Profiles • Tags: Hopkinton, Kultar's Mime, Massachusetts, Mehr Kaur, Sarbpreet Singh, Two Paths Productions

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Study on Religious Discrimination and Race-Related Stress among North American Sikhs

June 13, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

University of Massachusetts – Boston Department of Counseling and School Psychology 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125-3393 University of Massachusetts Boston Researcher: Dr. Kiran S. K. Arora Study: Religious Discrimination and Race-Related Stress among North American Sikhs. We are interested in conducting research with Sikhs living in North America. The purpose of the study is to examine how experiences of religious discrimination and race-related stress may impact the relationships, mental health, and overall well-being of Sikhs. To gather this information, […]

Categories: Education, Reports/Studies • Tags: Boston, Dr. Kiran S. K. Arora, Massachusetts, Research, University of Massachusetts

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The Caretaker -- a novel by A.X. Ahmad. (Photo source: Target)

A.X. Ahmad’s “The Caretaker”

May 31, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On the blog Colorlines, Rinku Sen interviews writer A.X. Ahmad whose recently published fictional novel The Caretaker is set in Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and features a Sikh protagonist named Ranjit Singh, “an undocumented Sikh immigrant struggling to make a life for himself, his wife and his daughter on Martha’s Vineyard, the summer get-away island for a good number of the country’s wealthy families, including the black elite.” In the interview, A.X. Ahmad discusses various aspects of the book, including the […]

Categories: Literature • Tags: A.X. Ahmad, Amardeep Singh, Colorlines, fiction, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, New York Times, novel, The Aerogram, The Caretaker, thriller

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Boston bombing editorial cartoon. (source: Denver Post)

What, or who, is “terrorism” in America?

April 22, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald compares the application of the word “terrorism” in the case of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing against recent previous acts of mass violence in the United States: It’s hard not to suspect that the only thing distinguishing the Boston attack from Tucson, Aurora, Sandy Hook and Columbine (to say nothing of the US “shock and awe” attack on Baghdad and the mass killings in Fallujah) is that the accused Boston attackers are Muslim and the […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes • Tags: Arizona, Barack Obama, Boston, Boston Marathon, Columbine, Connecticut, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, Massachusetts, Newtown, Oak Creek, Salon, Sandy Hook, Terrorism, Tucson, Wajahat Ali, Wisconsin

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Sarbpreet Singh (Matt Kalinowski | Boston Globe)

MA Sikh Sarbpreet Singh recognized in “2012 Bostonians of the Year” list

December 23, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In its 2012 list of “Bostonians of the Year”, the Boston Globe gave an honorable mention to Sarbpreet Singh, a local Sikh leader in from Milford, Massachusetts, particularly for his work after the shooting that occurred in the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin: …through his writings, his promotion of traditional Sikh music, and his interfaith nonprofit work on behalf of refugees, Singh has helped weave Sikhism into the fabric of religious life in Boston. “I continue to […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Boston, Boston Globe, Bostonians of the Year, Massachusetts, Sarbpreet Singh

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New England Sikh Study Circle celebrates site of new Gurdwara

July 30, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

This past weekend, the New England Sikh Study Circle, currently housed in Milford, Massachussetts, held a ceremony on the site of their future Gurdwara in Westborough: [Sarbpreet] Singh said the Gurdwara will serve his community’s needs for several decades, once it is completed. He said he was looking forward to working with other churches and temples in the Westborough area in serving the community. “We do a lot of interfaith things,” he said. “We want to work closely with other […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Gurdwara, Massachusetts, Milford, New England Sikh Study Circle, Westborough

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AutoZone, Inc. settles for $75,000 in Sikh discrimination case

April 2, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

You may recall the case of automobile parts manufacturer AutoZone, who was sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for employment discrimination directed towards Frank MahoneyBurroughs, a recent convert to Sikhism: According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Massachusetts in Boston (Civil Action No. 1:10-cv-11648), AutoZone managers at its Everett, Mass., location harassed MahoneyBurroughs by disparaging his religion, asking if he had joined Al-Qaeda and whether he was a terrorist. AutoZone also […]

Categories: Civil Rights, News Bits • Tags: AutoZone, EEOC, Employment Discrimination, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Frank MahoneyBurroughs, Massachusetts

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