Simranjeet Singh Uppal ‘Rahi’ is a Trainee Optometrist and a contemporary Sikh Historian.
Simranjeet is passionate about ‘widening his own horizons’ and enjoys reading literature of all genres. He enjoys visiting museums and art galleries, he enjoys writing poetry and is an avid photographer.
When one treds on snow dispelled from the sky above, one inevitably leaves a footprint and when one penetrates the heart of another, it leaves a print on the mind as well as the heart - a print, that cannot be so easily erased may I add. but what is of importance, is the depth of any of these prints.
Connecting words on a sheet in prose is something that shall reign immortal, something the recipient/s shall cherish in the morn of the days & years to come. Through the connecting of words, I look to reclaim the forgotten stories, the hidden stories and to deliver these as far as my pen can travel whilst simultaneously narrating my own tales as they so happen.
For history, history breathes all around us, but it calls upon so few of us to embrace what once was as episodes of the past unfold in the mind like that of a Pandora’s box.
More Power to my Pen!
Simranjeet is currently working on a project titled 'The Khalistan Archive', an archive of digital photographs and newspaper articles relating to the Sikh Homeland Movement in the Sikh Diaspora.
He is also working on a research project titled ‘Growing up Sikh : A Search beyond the fine Black Strands of Kesh & beyond the Neat Pleats of the Pagh in young (16-24) British Born Sikh Males’.
The Objectives of this Study
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Examine the perceived changes in Sikh identity for British born Males from the first wave of Sikh migrants to the U.K. to the present,
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To investigate how important the Sikh identity is to a new generation of Sikhs,
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How this identity is adopted,
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To gain an understanding into how young Sikhs perceive the teachings of the Sikh Gurus & Sikh Saints
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And finally to investigate how these teachings are implemented in the modern day.