Parwinder Singh is one of the few Sikh sculptures who have been propagating the Sikh history for the
last many years through a Sikh Museum created by him at Balongi, which falls in Greater Mohali area of
Punjab. He hails from Buterala Village of Sector 41, Chandigarh. He was born there on 8th November
1965 in the house of S. Labh Singh and Bibi Mahinder Kaur. His father was doing labour as a mason and
looking him working, Parwinder also used to play with the construction material by making toys with clay,
wood, iron etc. As he had no interest in study, he learnt the skill of a scooter mechanic and started his repair
shop. His childhood interest of creating things out of clay, wood etc. persuaded him to create images of
characters from Sikh history. Thus, he made a Sikh museum wherein he kept designed sculptures of Sikh
martyrs. These sculptures, made form fiber glass were first established in 2005 in a museum on the SAS
Nagar to Landra Road and then later on the same were shifted to the present location of Village Balongi, near
cremation ground in Chandigarh. He had founded Sikh Heritage and Culture Society in 2003 of which he is
the President and which aims at creating a big museum on the lines of vax museum in London. He admits
that he was inspired the sculptures made by S. Tara Singh which are displayed outside Gurudwara Mehdiana
Sahib, Jagraon, Distt. Ludhiana. These sculptures display important events of Sikh history and he wants to
create and expend museum covering not only such events, but also the images of great Sikh personalities.
However, he does not have sufficient funds. Earlier he received financial aid from several politicians and
an SAS Nagarbased politician had provided the land. But now, he says, due to a lack of support from the
government, he is running the museum independently with only the help of donations from visitors. He is
also afraid that he may lose this land donated to him because of government’s plan to enlarge the cremation
ground. A large number of sculpture pieces displayed by him including those of Bhai Bachitar Singh, S. Hari
Singh Nalwa, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, Bhai Taru Singh, Bhai Mati Das Ji and Bhai Mani Singh Ji show
that the artist creator has excellent skill and a desire to do his work. He has already displayed these items in
various exhibitions also. Some of his creations have also been sent to other countries. For example, a massive
gate made by wax sent to Australia as per the requirements of Gurudwara Management there. He is really a
role-model in his work and need to be supported and encouraged. We pray and hope that he will be able to
fulfill his desire to create one day a wonderful museum of Sikh religious history and personalities which will
inspire the people to understand and appreciate our unique history and achievements.
