Guru Raj Singh Khalsa, recently completed his Reserve Officer Training and was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the US army. He is currently completing further training at the United States Army Armor School at Fort Benning, GA.
Selfless servant of humanity.
In 2016, Harnarayan Singh made a reputation for himself in the Canadian hockey community with his animated, exaggerated analysis of Pittsburgh Penguins player Nick Bonino's playoff goal against the Washington Capitals.
Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, the first member of the Sikh community to join the sheriff's office, was shot dead in September 2019. The incident happened when he was conducting a traffic stop in the Cypress neighbourhood.
Governing a school based on love is difficult, especially one riven by hatred and failed by Ofsted. Golden Hillock was one of the schools at the centre of a "Trojan horse" attempt by a group of Muslim governors and senior instructors to enforce the mandates of a hardline and politicised offshoot of Sunni Islam years ago when Herminder Channa took charge.
Gurdeep Singh, a minority leader in Pakistan, was the first turban-wearing Sikh elected to the upper chamber of the nation's parliament from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). In the Senate elections, Gurdeep Sindh of Pakistan's ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party easily defeated other candidates on a minority seat, becoming the Senate's first openly Sikh national leader.
Punjab-born scientist Narinder Singh Kapany was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan in the field of science and engineering in 2021.
The team of volunteers at the organization is often the first on the scene to help distribute food, water, clothing, and medical and sanitation supplies during calamities and times of dire need.
Given how the Sikh community is viewed by the general public, scholarship is not something that immediately springs to mind. But the community has also produced some eminent historians who not only left behind great literary legacies but exemplified in their personal lives what it meant to be a scholar sage.