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1984 through Indian Eyes: Part VI — “My People’s Heart” by Preeti Kaur

December 4, 2014 by American Turban Guest Contributor

1984 through Indian Eyes: Literary Accounts of Operation Blue Star and the Anti-Sikh Pogroms By Lori Way Part VI – “My People’s Heart” by Preeti Kaur In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Operation Bluestar in Amritsar, India, in June, 1984, and the anti-Sikh pogroms that took place the following November in New Delhi, Lori Way concludes her six-installment review of works of literature focusing upon these events. Many thanks to Lori for providing to us insights and discussions as we […]

Categories: Literature • Tags: 1984 anti-Sikh riots, anti-Sikh pogroms, Lori Way, My People's Heart, Operation Blue Star, Operation Bluestar, Preeti Kaur, Rabindranath Tagore

Gilbert Garcia has been arrested in the assault on 82-year-old Piara Singh on May 5 in Fresno, California. (source: Crime Voice)

Rethinking the hate crime villain

May 14, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

After the attack on 82-year-old Piara Singh in Fresno, California, nine days ago, Preeti Kaur (on her blog The Longest There) considers the suspected perpetrator and delves into the meaning of “hate crime”: The term hate-crime is a peculiar term. Others have discussed the definition of hate-crimes and need for such a delineation, of course, but for me its peculiarity is that in the act of describing a hate-crime as a hate-crime, the biggest offense becomes the hate, and the crime […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, Reflections • Tags: California, Fresno, Gilbert Garcia, hate crimes, Piara Singh, Preeti Kaur, The Longest There

The Aerogram’s interview with Preeti Kaur, Part II

March 7, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The Aerogram has followed up last week’s interview with writer Preeti Kaur (a talented writer from California) with a second installment in which she talks about the back-story of her poems “Letters Home” and “You Bring Out the Punjabi in Me,” the Oak Creek tragedy, and struggles of Sikh Americans: It’s very fashionable amongst Sikh men these days to celebrate their turbans and flaunt their turbans as an accessory representing a resilient attitude (more power to them), to reverse the […]

Categories: Art, Literature, Profiles • Tags: Preeti Kaur, The Aerogram

The Aerogram interviews writer Preeti Kaur

February 27, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On The Aerogram, Pavani Yalamanchili interviews poet and writer Preeti Kaur. In Part I of the interview, she talks about her early influences, including her grandmother: It felt like magic every time I would receive a dohra written just for me. My most memorable is one dohra she wrote in her last few years of life, where she talks about standing on the terrace drying her hair. A flock of crows flies by and she asks them to deliver a […]

Categories: Art, Literature, Profiles • Tags: Preeti Kaur, The Aerogram

“Letters Home” by Preeti Kaur

August 17, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Writer Preeti Kaur pens “Letters Home”, a poem in tribute to the victims of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin shooting. An excerpt: america: enter the gurdwara door is open our bare feet like cracked glass our covered heads bulletproof from ego we turn our backs on bellingham build our gurdwaras from post traumatic cinder of bombed birmingham black church nina simone sings tera bhaana meetha laage to tune of mississippi goddamn gunpowder lines noses of children left behind wailing mummy papa […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, Literature • Tags: Gurdwara, hate crimes, Oak Creek, Poetry, Preeti Kaur, Wisconsin

“You Bring Out the Punjabi In Me”

March 9, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Preeti Kaur, a Sikh American writer, takes us on a journey of Punjab and Punjabis through time and space in her poem entitled “You Bring Out the Punjabi In Me”. An excerpt: mithu you mix up the mexidu forbidden out of me i crave your territory alien land law imperial over my valley break into yuba city root peach trees a thousand san joaquin spawn our only proof of that angel island tryst grown into millionaire agro turbans on tractors […]

Categories: Art, Literature • Tags: Boliyan, Gurpreet Sehra, Preeti Kaur, You Bring Out the Punjabi In Me

Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

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