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I am now 18 years old live in delhi and am a curious person who likes to contradict even the most basic principles that we as a sikhs have been taught. So I have this lingering question since I started to see relatives around me judging people to cut their hair. The question that I have is that...

This is a blog to all on a sensative issue. I try to attend the Gurduwara when my studies permit and I find that within our sikh communtity there is a minority of amritdhari and kes wearing singhs and kaurs who look down upon people like me with cut hair. I also would like to know about where I...

WjKKWJKF... one of my relative argued and questioned me about the need and purpose of covering one's kesh while eating and going to bathroom (offcourse for attending nature's call). I told that while cooking and eating a sikh should cover his/her head so that his hair do'nt get into food...

If passed, The Drug Free Commercial Driver Act would allow motor carriers to force a Sikh operator to provide a hair sample for pre-employment testing and further future testing for the purpose of curbing controlled substance abuse. About the bill On October 30, 2013, Congressman Eric...

"THE TRUTH ABOUT LONG HAIR" This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Vietnam War. Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their...

Sikh woman sues suburban go-kart park after hair cut from motor BY STEFANO ESPOSITO http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/24819381-418/sikh-woman-sues-suburb-go-kart-compan-after-hair-cut-from-motor.html Last year Holly Hanjra was enjoying a day of go-kart racing in Melrose Park when...

Interview here: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/archive/segment/woman-who-doesnt-shave-people-stare-at-me-on-the-street/51ea07a478c90a155d0004b6 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paloma-goni/i-dont-shave_b_3568790.html I Don't Shave I'm one of those women who loathes hair...

am 19. I went to a camp in summer. There was a babaji who forced me to get baptized (take amrit). I always wanted to be Amritdhari but not at a young age. I told him that I am not ready yet, I cut my hair and I dont have any family member or relatives who are amritdhari.And I said tyhat I will...

I was scheming through verses on in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and I found two verses I thought were interesting. Many people have said that keeping hair isn't mentioned in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji at all. But I found a verse about hair at least. I'm not being conviced by the verse at all...

Let me tell you a bit about myself.. I am a sikh male,25 years old, a software consultant, and in a hell of a dilemma. 25 is not an age when you consider cutting your hair, I have usually seen it in younger people(18-21) is when it usually happens, cause thats when we start dating. The thing is...

Singapore prisons department to look into the incidents of cutting Sikh inmates hair By Yudhvir Rana, http://www.3news.co.nz/Turban-is-a-sacred-symbol-a-Sikh-MP-says/tabid/423/articleID/285168/Default.aspx AMRITSAR: The issue of cutting of head and facial hair of Sikh jail inmates in...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2012/sep/26/sikh-online-abuse-facial-hair The Sikh woman who stood up to online abuse about her facial hair When a picture of student Balpreet Kaur was posted on the website Reddit and attracted insulting comments...

Hey everybody it's been many years since I've been thinking of keeping my hair ( head and beard). I was born in America while my brother and rest of the family were in Punjab. Everybody that was in India were sardar but when they came here they had cut their hair. I have always been Mona my...

I have read the full Rehet (in English) and need calrification on a few things... I want to know the specific rules according to whats written word for word, and not people's extrapolations based on whats written and their interpretation (I mean extrapolating from whats actually written, to...

I am a Gori Sikh, and I really want to do Amrit... and the man I want to spend my life with is a Punjabi Sikh and also wants me to do Amrit eventually. My question is about covering hair. Is it mandatory once you do Amrit that your hair needs to be covered at all times? I have no issues with...

Balpreet Kaur, Sikh Woman, Receives Remarkable Apology From Redditor Who Posted Her Photo It started with a sneaky and ill-advised online potshot, but it ended with an apology and a positively heartwarming lesson in acceptance, tolerance and kindness. Over the weekend, a Redditor with the...

Hi, Im a sikh man (aged 18) and I wanted to confess that I can no longer keep my hair. I don't feel comfortable with long hair, I feel woozy whenever I wear a pakta, I have eczema so keeping my hair under pakta traps heat to my scalp which excessively dries my scalp causes it to bleed and itch...

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Living in Brooklyn, New York City as a turban-wearing Sikh, I attract plenty of negative attention from random strangers as well as the cops, which I’ve written about at length. Fortunately, I also get some love and respect from time to time as I walk or ride my bike in my neighborhood in...