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Entrepreneur G.P. Singh’s three keys to realizing your potential

February 13, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

A recent talk given by Gurvinder P. Singh at a TEDx event (associated with the nonprofit Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference) in San Antonio, Texas caught my attention: A successful entrepreneur who sold his homegrown defense contracting firm for millions, G.P. shares the trials, tribulations and truths of showing up in the U.S. with $8 in his pocket and building a life of purpose. The talk – “Life Lessons for Realizing Your Potential”. As I watched Gurvinder Singh speak — […]

Categories: Reflections • Tags: Gurvinder P. Singh, San Antonio, Sikh diaspora, TED, TEDx, Texas

California’s early Sikh immigrants and the beginnings of the drug war

December 2, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Via Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast, we learn that those opposed to the emerging and growing use of marijuana at the turn of the 20th century in America used the Sikh immigrants to California in 1910 as their earliest scapegoats: In a remarkable letter to [architect of US narcotics policy Hamilton Wright], dated July 2, 1911, [California Board of Pharmacy member Henry Finger] urged that the Conference take up the cannabis issue: “Within the last year we in California […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Immigration, marijuana, Sikh diaspora

"Some of the Hindus driven from the United States to Canada", from "The Hindu of the Northwest" (1907) - http://saadigitalarchive.org/item/20110714-238

The Sikh diaspora: Sikh history doesn’t end in India

July 20, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

When one refers to “Sikh history”, quite often we take that to mean the history of Sikhs from our inception with the birth of Guru Nanak (the founder of Sikhism) in 1469 through to the near-present, but of that which occured in India. The history of the Sikhs who began leaving India around the end of the 19th century for farther eastern and western lands is not as commonly known or acknowledged. The Sikh diaspora tends to be spoken of in broad terms, but […]

Categories: Literature, Sikhism • Tags: Bellingham riots, Bruce La Brack, California, Sikh diaspora, Washington State

Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

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Entrepreneur G.P. Singh’s three keys to realizing your potential

California’s early Sikh immigrants and the beginnings of the drug war

The Sikh diaspora: Sikh history doesn’t end in India