‘Even without speaking words, I’m walking down the street and saying things, just based on my turban. I think this is powerful and holds me accountable to my actions.’ Says Harinder Kaur Khalsa, Deputy Sheriff, Alameda County. Her portrait in the book Turbans and Tales, presents a woman with a solid, confident presence who looks […]
Sikhs
1984 India’s Guilty Secret
For more than thirty years Pav Singh tried to figure out what had happened. As had Sikhs in India and across the diaspora. Churasee, the Punjabi word for 1984, is a deep wound in the Sikh psyche. People were aware of the barbaric horrors, brutality and violence visited upon Sikhs – men, women and […]