Justice Anoop Singh Choudry Description Justice Anoop Singh Choudry, the first Sikh Judge of a High Court in Uganda was born on 13.08.1949 at Masaka, Uganda. His grandfather, S. Hari Singh had migrated from Rawalpindi to Uganda in the early 1900s serving in the then Crown Colony’s Civil service system. His late father Tarlok Singh […]
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Haribhajan Kaur Khalsa Description Haribhajan Kaur Khalsa, renowned singer of Gurbani, was born in Mexico. The family moved to USA before she was 2 years old. She was just 8 years old, when her parents sent her to Miri Piri Academy Amritsar to get education about Sikh religion. It was during her school days that […]
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Guru Mustuk Singh Khalsa Description When a christan person and a jewish lady became Sikhs under the influence of Yogi Harbhajan Singh, the couple, named, thereafter as Govinda Singh Khalsa and Satkiran Kaur Khalsa brought up their son Guru Mustuk Singh in Sikh way of living. He was sent for education to India, where he […]
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Gurujas Kaur Khalsa Description Gurujas Kaur Khalsa, a converted Sikh devotional singer, became a role model when her album ‘White Son II’ won 2017 Grammy Award in the Best New Age Album Category. She is the lead vocalist and lyricist of this album. The songs of this album are in Gurmukhi, but the emotional voice […]
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BibiJi Inderjit Kaur Khalsa Description BibiJi Inderjit Kaur Khalsa ji is known throughout the world as the Bhai Sahiba or Chief Minister of Sikh Dharma. To more than 25 million Sikhs around the globe. she is a revered ‘mother’ and honored as an ambassador of good will and a harbinger of interfaith dialogue among religious […]
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Montek Singh Ahluwalia Description Montek Singh Ahluwalia, famous economist and renowned civil servant, was born on 24th November 1943 in Delhi. After his schooling at Delhi Public School, mathura road, he got his B.A. (honours) Degree St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He continued his further education at the University of Oxford and obtained Master’s […]
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Ajaypal Singh Banga Ajaypal Singh Banga, generally known as Ajay Banga is the name of a Gursikh, who has climbed the echelons of an international company Master Card Inc, the ubiquitous financial company, becoming thereby one of the highest paid company executives in the world. Belonging to a Sikh family of Jalandhar, Banga was born […]
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Isher Judge Ahluwalia Description Isher Judge Ahluwalia, an Indian economist, was born on 1st October 1945 in Delhi. She did her M.A. from Delhi School of Economics and then went for research to USA. Her research, focussed upon urban development, industrial development, macro-economic reforms and social sector development issues in India got her a Ph.D. […]
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Harinder Sidhu Description It was a great moment of pride for all the Indians, Sikhs in particular, when Australian Foreign Affair Minister Julie Bishop announced that an Indian origin Australian Harinder Sidhu will be the next High Commissioner to India. Ms. Sidhu was born in Singapore and she was just a child when her father […]
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Dr. M.S. Gill Description Dr. M.S. Gill, an Indian Politician of the Indian National Congress and presently Punjab’s representative in Rajya Sabha was born on 14.06.1936. He joined I.A.S. in 1958 and was allotted Punjab cadre before the State was trifurcated and two new states Haryana and Himachal Pradesh were created out of it. He […]
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