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Organizer of last week’s NY Sikh Film Festival speaks

November 7, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

At the Sikh Art & Film Foundation, we believe Sikh values are American values, and we know that film is a powerful medium. Through choosing the best films and gathering together every fall, Sikh and non-Sikh, we honor our history and share our values and humanity in a way that the gap with other people. But we are not afraid to show films that reveal our foibles, for Sikhs are also ordinary people — and people sometimes fall short of […]

Categories: 1984, Events • Tags: Government of India, New York, Sikh International Film Festival, Tejinder Singh Bindra

Lord Indarjit Singh defends NY Sikh Film Festival organizers

October 31, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

After declining the invitation to attend the (now postponed) opening gala of the Sikh International Film Festival in New York, Lord Indarjit Singh reportedly objects to the criticisms leveled towards the film festival organizers: Regarding attending functions in the presence of Indian government VIPs I have mixed views. I have been invited to many functions at the Indian High Commission since 1984 but have not attended a single one. In my new position as a member of the House of […]

Categories: 1984, Events • Tags: 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Lord Indarjit Singh, New York, Sikh International Film Festival

Sikh International Film Festival postpones opening gala due to “community concern”

October 28, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Over this weekend, the New York Sikh International Film Festival announced that they are postponing their opening Heritage Awards Gala, originally scheduled for November 2, 2012: Some concerns have surfaced, pertaining to our plans for the November 2, 2012 Gala. We are, therefore, postponing the Annual Heritage Gala. We will solicit the community’s concerns to address them productively. We invite you to attend the Sikh International Film Festival on November 3, 2012 at the Asia Society Museum – located at 725 Park […]

Categories: 1984, Events • Tags: Heritage Gala, Lord Indarjit Singh, New York, Sikh Arts and Film Festival, Sikh International Film Festival

Lord Indarjit Singh declines invitation to NY Sikh International Film Festival

October 26, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Reports today indicate that Lord Indarjit Singh, the first turbaned Sikh to serve in the British House of Lords, has declined the invitation to attend the opening event of the 2012 Sikh International Film Festival in New York — the Heritage Awards Gala (in which he was to be awarded) — in objection to the attendance of representatives of the Government of India. As posted on the website SikhChic, Lord Indarjit Singh writes to the organizer of the film festival: […]

Categories: 1984, Events • Tags: 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Indarjit Singh, Lord Indarjit Singh, New York, Sikh International Film Festival, sikhchic

The incomprehensible New York Sikh International Film Festival

October 23, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In just over a week, Sikhs in the United States and around the world will be commemorating the 28th anniversary of the anti-Sikh pogroms of 1984 — quite often described as a genocide — in which thousands of Sikhs were pulled from their homes and butchered in the streets of India during the aftermath of the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984. In the decades since, Sikhs and human rights organizations have attempted to […]

Categories: 1984, Events, TV/Movies • Tags: boycott, Canadian Sikh Coalition, Ensaaf, Film Festival, New York, Sikh International Film Festival, sikhchic, The Langar Hall

Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

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