Articles on Kaur Life featuring Sikh women combating hate with love through social justice work; fighting for human rights with their Sikh values
Before you keyboard warriors freak out and think I’m attacking Sikhi, believe me, I’m not. I’m just going to be giving you an insight to what it’s like being a Sikh girl in 2016 because last time I checked, no one in the community tries to step into our shoes.
Nav Hothi recently became BC’s first South Asian female Commissioned Officer, as an Inspector. Nav is a Regional Duty Officer for the Lower Mainland District, where she monitors all RCMP operations in the Lower Mainland.
“Rajwant was first in her class, she loves school, and she wants to be a doctor.* she said. “She even got admission into a nursing school in Patiala."
To know who we are as a people, we look to our ancestors who carved out new lives and upheld old traditions. Kaur Life strives to share as many vintage photos of Sikh women with the community. This way, when think about Sikh history, we no longer have blank minds,...
Equality Is Sweet: Pink Ladoo campaign launches to encourage British South Asian families to celebrate the birth of a girl
In this poem a mother speaks to her daughter about an incident where she is called a burden. "You are not a responsibility, you are a blessing. You are not someone’s, this world is yours."
The women and children seeking refuge in streets of Panipat were hounded back in Afghan camps as slaves. Children over 14 were beheaded before their own mothers and sisters.
While the Sikh community may have adopted family planning methods, it is the “selective family planning” evidently adopted by a significant section of the community which goes against the tenets of Sikhism propounded by Guru Gobind Singh.
I urge all fathers, mothers alike To make a prideful choice A daughter born, you don't despair Make her a Kaur, rejoice