Dastaar presents the struggle of the Sikh American community against discrimination and violence caused by ignorance of an essential symbol of the Sikh faith -- the dastaar, or turban. The documentary begins by observing the simple, quiet act of putting on the dastaar, a daily ritual imbued with the Sikh values of honor, discipline and faith. The solemnity of this ritual contrasts with recent incidents of violence and discrimination against Sikhs due to the wearing of the dastaar , which all Sikh men are required to wear at all times in public. Such incidents include the vicious attack on Gurcharan Singh and Rajinder Singh Khalsa by five men after being accused of being terrorists, two NYPD officers who left the force after refusing the order to remove their dastaars while on duty, and a subway operator who wore his dastaar for 20 years until being recently ordered to remove his dastaar.
(Winner, Best Documentary Short at San Diego Asian Film Festival, Eureka! International Film Festival and Dallas Asian Short Film Festival.)

Continuous Journey is an inquiry into the largely ignored history of Canada's exclusion of the South Asians by a little known immigration policy called the Continuous Journey Regulation of 1908. Unlike the Chinese and the Japanese, people from British India were excluded by a regulation that appeared fair, but in reality, was an effective way of keeping people from India out of Canada until 1948. As a direct result, only a half-mile from Canadian shores, the Komagata Maru was surrounded by immigration boats and the passengers were held in communicado - virtual prisoners on the ship. Thus began a dramatic stand-off which would escalate over the course of two months, becoming one of the most infamous incidents in Canadian history.

"The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, edited by Susan Stronge, is both book and catalogue to [an] exhibition, which traveled from the V&A to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Twelve chapters, written by outstanding scholars and specialists, discuss the history, religion, architecture, rulers, paintings, textiles, and photography of the Sikhs. Much of the research and information included in them refers to art and objects that are not in the exhibition. At the end of the volume, is a catalogue of the 231 objects in the exhibition, each of which is fully documented and described."
(Mary Ann Milford-Lutzker, Carver Professor of Asian Art History at Mills College.)

"Singh charts the history of the Sikhs from the time of Guru Nanak to the present day…The Sikhs is a fascinating insight into the Sikh traditions, culture, and beliefs." (Victoria Schofield, Asian Affairs.)
"[O]n the whole, this is a balanced, nuanced and well-documented study of a people little understood in the West." (Publisher's Weekly.)

"It is a book with coverage of encyclopedic dimensions, and could well be called 'All About Sikhism.'" "With comprehensive treatment of the subject…the publication has been designed to serve as an authentic reference book of lasting value." (Abstracts of Sikh Studies.)

"In Twenty Years of Impunity: The November 1984 Pogroms of Sikhs in India, Kaur compiles hundreds of affidavits, police records, and journalistic accounts to describe the lengths to which Indian government agents went to kill Sikhs following the assassination of Indira Gandhi."

"New Delhi was in complete chaos in the days following Gandhi's assassination Kaur revisits the pogroms, utilizing never-before published affidavits and reports submitted to closed investigatory commissions."

"Reports such as Twenty Years of Impunity and Reduced to Ashes advocate holding abusers duly accountable, and attempt to recognize the suffering of victims of human rights abuses so that they too may move forward with the rest of the population.
(Harvard Human Rights Journal.)

In his fourth volume of collected essays, I.J. Singh, professor of anatomy at New York University, offers the reader "a plate full of ideas and opinions about Sikhs and Sikhi." Singh's vision of Sikhi is of an ethical framework used to guide Sikhs' lives and decisions as adherents of a "thinking person's religion" as opposed to presenting a rigid and unchanging set of practices and dogma fenced in by the suffix "ism." The author's aim is to open up dialogue on a number of contemporary issues--within Sikh circles as well as in the larger Western world--in order to spark new thinking on issues ranging from overcoming the generation gap to the Nanavati report to same-sex unions and evolution.

Garland Around My Neck is the riveting story of a rare humanist whose passionate concerns gave dignity and hope to thousands of men and women. In the annals of twentieth-century Punjabi - or the whole of India for the matter - there are few who embodied the range, resoluteness and regions self-discipline in life as Puran Singh (1904-92) did. A barefoot colossus who strides the century - or at least 88 years of it - he left a legacy of concern and compassion for not only Indian's neglected social strata, but also for the environment: from the vanishing tree cover to the increasingly polluted air and water, and for animals on whom he lavished the same love.