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Picture of the Day: Bhagat Singh Thind

March 31, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

From The Mutinous Mindstate of the Desi Diaspora: United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that Bhagat Singh Thind, who was a Punjabi Sikh, settled in Oregon, could not be a naturalized citizen of the United States, because he was not a “white person” in the sense intended in the relevant 1790 statute governing naturalization. Although Thind argued that as an Indian he belonged to the […]

Categories: Picture of the Day • Tags: Bhagat Singh Thind, US Army

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Being all he can be: Spc. Simran Singh Lamba

March 29, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Simran Singh Lamba, one of the Sikhs who last year was granted an exemption to join the military while maintaining his uncut hair and beard, is now in training at Camp Bullis near San Antonio, Texas: “The other soldiers are following their religion, and I’m doing the same thing,” Lamba said. Lamba added the soldiers at his side treat him like any other soldier. “Anything happens, they’ll take care of me. Anything happens to them, I’ll take care of them,” […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Camp Bullis, San Antonio, Sikh, Simran Lamba, Simran Singh Lamba, Texas, US Army

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The diasporic boomerang effect: American Sikh inspires Indian Sikhs

February 24, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

While interacting with students of Khalsa College, his alma mater, Rattan said he “faced many ups and downs in life, but emerged victorious on every occasion.” He said “never say die attitude” help him to reach his goal… “Sikhs mean a lot to the world,” he said, adding that in future too he would follow the ethics of Sikhism in letter and spirit. – Tejdeep Singh Rattan describes his experience in becoming a soldier in the US Army to students […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Amritsar, Khalsa College, Tejdeep Singh Rattan, United States, US Army

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Top 5 Sikh American Stories of 2010

January 4, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Happy New Year! The end of 2010 has spawned all kinds of retrospectives on that year, mostly in the form of “Top 10” lists of various categories.  An interesting exercise is to consider what were the top five stories related to Sikh Americans during 2010. Why the top five and not the top ten?  The number five has a special significance to Sikhs: Sikhism originated in Punjab (now in India and Pakistan), which is the land of “five rivers” (“Punj” means “five”, “ab” means “river” or “water”). […]

Categories: Reflections • Tags: Airport security, AIT machines, Barack Obama, Bay Area Civil Rights Report 2010, Darbar Sahib, Golden Temple, Guru Singh, Harmandir Sahib, Kamaldeep Singh Kalsi, Outsourced, Sikh Coalition, Simran Lamba, Tejdeep Singh Rattan, Top 5 Sikh American Stories, TSA, US Army

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Arguably better than an Obama visit to Amritsar

November 11, 2010 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

…is this showing up on Yahoo’s main page today on this Veteran’s Day: For US Sikhs, it was hoped that an Obama visit to our central shrine in Amritsar (commonly known as “the Golden Temple“) would have brought us some attention here in America and in doing so help educate our fellow citizens about us.   However, had he reconsidered and actually visited the Golden Temple, Obama’s patronage of the site was already tarnished by the allegations that the White House feared it […]

Categories: Civil Rights, News Bits, Politics • Tags: Barack Obama, Golden Temple, Simran Lamba, US Army

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Picture of the day

November 10, 2010 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

– from msnbc.msn.com

Categories: Picture of the Day • Tags: Simran Lamba, US Army

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Enlisting the Sikhs

November 10, 2010 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Spc. Simran Lamba is the first turban-wearing Sikh in 30 years to be enlisted in the US Army and go through basic training: The 26-year-old native of New Delhi, India, says it had been a childhood dream to become a soldier. He was permitted to wear unshorn hair and a turban under a special accommodation. The exemption applies to an Army policy that effectively prevented Sikhs from enlisting since 1984. Recently, turban-wearing Sikhs have broken down barriers when it has come […]

Categories: Civil Rights, News Bits • Tags: Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi, Simran Lamba, Tejdeep Singh Rattan, US Army

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