More than lives lost in Oak Park
Posted: August 9, 2012 Filed under: Essay, News | Tags: gurdwaras, Oak Park, shootings, Sikhism, Sikhs Leave a comment »
In the current issue of Open Magazine, I have a more personal response to the killings in Oak Park, Wisconsin.
Beyond the lives tragically lost, it is the attack on this institution that I feel most deeply, for the gurdwara is not only a place of worship and service, but also one of real community and, for the children, of uninhibited play where the demands of parents are relaxed and the spectre of bullies a distant threat.
Read the full story here.
On the Oak Park shootings
Posted: August 6, 2012 Filed under: Essay, News | Tags: column, Daily Mail, Oak Park, Punjab, shootings, Sikhism, Sikhs Leave a comment »I didn’t write the headline on the published piece, and nor is that what I say. And the paragraph breaks on the online version are a mess. Not mine for sure.
As a Sikh, as an American, the latest, the murder of five Sikhs and a police officer at a gurudwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, hits home for me, and home hard.



