Diving in: thoughtful starting points

External links

• The turban and beyond

• ‘11 things you wanted to know about my turban but were too afraid to ask’

• Article of Faith: resisting harassment in New York schools

  vimeo.com/27979181

• Photographers depict Sikhs in turbans, who talk about its importance in their lives:

  Amit and Naroop: The Sikh Project

  Amit and Naroop Turbans And Tale

• BBC3’s Things Not To Say to Sikh People (Content advisory: there is one classroom-inappropriate word)

• Two short US films from FTD Facts:

  Surprising Facts about Sikhism

  11 Surprising Facts about Sikhism - Part 2

  Sewa

• The Midland Langar Seva Society

• Seva in Scotland

• Dasvandh Network, USA

  Meeting Sikhs

• Monty Panesar, England cricketer. Interview in English and Punjabi (with some slightly wayward subtitles!)

• Waris Ahluwalia, American designer and actor (in e.g. The Grand Budapest Hotel). Photos

• Interview about change to how Waris Ahluwalia was treated before and after 9/11, how his turban is there for testing times and how he was prevented from boarding an internal US flight because of his turban

• Fauja Singh, born 1911, multi-marathon runner from 2000 onwards

  Note sahajdhari Sikhs in this clip – those who cut their hair and have not taken Amrit (see pp.18–23).

• Dr Opinderjit Kaur Takhar, academic at the University of Wolverhampton. Find out more on Sikh Channel Late Night Banter

• Randhir Singh Heer, founder of the Midland Langar Seva Society:

  Sikh Philosophy Network

  TSB Community Partner Award

• Anita Rani, broadcaster and Strictly Come Dancing 2018 contestant, is from a Sikh background but is not practising. On Who do you think you are? she discovered her ancestors’ experience of Partition in 1947. She went on to explore that story in My Family, Partition and Me.

  BBC 'Who do you think you are?'
  What happened to the women? | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 - BBC One
  Interview Anita Rani Has Been Shocked by Her Family's Painful Past | Lorraine
  

• Rupi Kaur, Instagram poet

  (Content advisory: not all of this is suitable for your classroom – select examples as appropriate to the age and stage of your students.)

• Biographies of Sikh women

• Alternative numbers for Sikh population of India and in the First World War:

  Empire, Faith and War

  Sikhs at War
  

  Contemporary Sikhi

• British Sikh Reports

• An important UK Sikh network

• Sikh Chic is an online magazine for the Sikh diaspora, exploring art, film, poetry, books, music, faith, fiction, history, sports, fashion, food, architecture, humour, travel and more

• For older students, The Langar Hall is a blog offering a Sikh analysis of contemporary political events

• The following websites explore Sikh women’s perspectives:

  Kaurageous is a UK-based site, organising events around the UK and offering resources and articles on Sikh women.

  Kaurista is a US-based online lifestyle magazine addressing questions of identity, equality, justice, practice, prayer, hair, music, art, love and sex. (Content advisory: check the suitability of pages for your students first.)

  Kaur Life (Content advisory: this is not all suitable for class use).

  Films/TV

• The English Patient

• Bend It Like Beckham

• Ocean of Pearls

• Resource on the importance of sewa

Members only

• 21 examples of service to others in Sikhism