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Missing NY resident Rajwinder Kaur found in TX

July 13, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Rajwinder Kaur, a resident of Queens, New York who was reported missing earlier this week, was located in Dallas, Texas: Rajwinder Kaur, 26, was located in Dallas after a friend went to police and informed them of her location, a law enforcement official said. The friend had purchased a bus ticket to Dallas for Kaur. It wasn’t clear why Kaur was in Texas. During the week, the news of her disappearance spread quickly through social media and across the South […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Dallas, New York, Queens, Rajwinder Kaur, Texas

NY police searching for missing Rajwinder Kaur

July 10, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The New York Police Department is looking for Rajwinder Kaur, 26, who is a resident of Queens and who has been missing since Sunday: HOLLIS (WABC) — Police and family members are asking for help locating a missing woman in Queens. Rajwinder Kaur, 26, has not been seen or heard from since leaving her home on 198 Street Sunday night, according to investigators. “She always comes home. She always lets us know where she is,” Gurpreet Kaur, her sister, said. […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Crime Stoppers, New York, Queens, Rajwinder Kaur

Explaining the things we wear on our heads

July 6, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

I was shocked. I wanted to give everyone in the elevator a high-five, but remembering I was in New York, I tried to play it cool. I put on my Denzel Washington face (the coolest person I could think of on the spot), and as I walked out of the elevator, I turned to the mother and whispered a soft “thank you.” — At the Huffington Post, Simran Jeet Singh discusses a recent experience in an elevator when a child […]

Categories: Reflections • Tags: Huffington Post, New York, Simran Jeet Singh

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New York’s South Asian taxi drivers

June 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

South Asian cabbies have told me that they’ve been spat upon, cursed at, hit, punched and, in one case, even stabbed. One Sikh driver once joked to me that he was called “Arab,” “Muslim” and “terrorist” so often that he was considering converting! Of course, he was kidding, but his comment underscored the absurdity of someone mistaking a Sikh for a Muslim, as these two groups have historically been bitter enemies in Northern India. …However, on the other side of […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: International Business Times, New York, Palash R. Ghosh, taxi, taxicab

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MTA officially settles with Sikhs and Muslims on ‘brand or segregate’ policy

May 30, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Earlier this month and as a result of a seven-year long legal challenge, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), which oversees public transit in the city, agreed in principle to eliminate the requirement that Sikhs or Muslims who wear religious head-coverings to affix a corporate logo on the head-covering, or be segregated out of public view. This policy was coined as “brand or segregate”. The settlement was officially filed in federal court today, and includes: Transit Authority employees will no […]

Categories: Civil Rights, News Bits • Tags: brand or segregate, Metropolitan Transit Authority, MTA, Muslim, New York, Sikh, Turban, United States Department of Justice

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NY students learn to debate and about each other in interfaith project

May 23, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

An interfaith project in New York city brings together students from a variety of religious backgrounds to learn debating skills, and about each other: Sikh, Muslim and Hindu students from across New York City have spent the last six months learning the art of debate through “Debate in the Neighborhood,” a collaboration between the International Debate Education Association and the Interfaith Center of New York. “The goal of it is to bring immigrant and first generation youth together in a […]

Categories: Interfaith • Tags: IDEA, Interfaith Center of New York, International Debate Education Association, New York

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Picture of the Day: The mosaic artwork of NY artist Harjeet Singh Sandhu

May 15, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Harjeet Singh Sandhu owns a sign-making business in New York, but his passion is his art: Sandhu, a 63-year old artist and signmaker in the Bronx, has crafted an artful mosaic portrait of Mayor Bloomberg that he wants to present to Hizzoner. “He is my mayor,” Sandhu said. “Some things he does, sometimes people don’t like it. But I think what he does for the city is very good.” It took Sandhu five months of carefully crafting each piece of […]

Categories: Art, Picture of the Day • Tags: Bronx, Harjeet Singh Sandhu, Michael Bloomberg, New York

Langar is more than free Indian food

May 11, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Quite often, when mainstream media outlets portray Sikh functions or services, the reporters commonly make a note of the Sikh practice of langar, the free kitchen and food made available to all who attend the service. Take, for example, the recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Where the Food Is Free” which describes the preparation of langar at the Sikh Cultural Society in Richmond Hill, New York. An excerpt: They say there’s no such thing as a free […]

Categories: Reflections • Tags: Langar, New York, Richmond Hill, Sikh Cultural Society, Wall Street Journal

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Dr. Eboo Patel awarded 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize

May 11, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Interfaith activist Dr. Eboo Patel, from Chicago, Illinois, and founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, has been awarded the 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize: Dr. Eboo Patel is a man of peace in a time of violence. At a time when a Muslim name is automatically equated with terrorism and Islam itself is misunderstood, this young Muslim Indian-American shows the power of interfaith dialogue. This month he was honoured in New York with the 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, established […]

Categories: Interfaith, News Bits • Tags: Chicago, Eboo Patel, Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, Hofstra University, Interfaith Youth Core, Ishar Singh Bindra, Kuljit Kaur Bindra, New York

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Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

Tag: New York

Missing NY resident Rajwinder Kaur found in TX

NY police searching for missing Rajwinder Kaur

Explaining the things we wear on our heads

New York’s South Asian taxi drivers

MTA officially settles with Sikhs and Muslims on ‘brand or segregate’ policy

NY students learn to debate and about each other in interfaith project

Picture of the Day: The mosaic artwork of NY artist Harjeet Singh Sandhu

Langar is more than free Indian food

Dr. Eboo Patel awarded 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize