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Living in Brooklyn, New York City as a turban-wearing Sikh, I attract plenty of negative attention from random strangers as well as the cops, which I’ve written about at length. Fortunately, I also get some love and respect from time to time as I walk or ride my bike in my neighborhood in...

A person should shampoo their hair at least twice per week, you should use a shampoo and not soap that you bathe with. Soap is designed for skin. Shampoo is designed for hair and scalp; there is an important difference between the two. Soap will dry your scalp, and most soap will leave a residue...

I am strongly contemplating cutting my hair. It is now something that I think about on a daily basis and is becoming a more serious issue. I often spend hours, depressed, thinking about whether or not I should. I'm a 20-year-old male, college student. I am a Sardar, though I trim my dhari...

It amazes me to see so many Sikh fighting and arguing with each other on the issue of hairs. Makes me wonder why are we doing this? Makes me wonder whom are we trying to change and for what purpose? Makes me also wonder what are we trying to justify?[/FONT] Honestly, the youth will get...

Yesterday I was at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib and I found that Simco has launched Hair Spray for beards.It is much better than imported brands which so many Sikhs use and and it is priced moderately Priced at Rs. 190 for 300 ml bottle and moreover It does not smell like Simco hair...

Dear Members, This issue is quite a sensitive one but one of great importance to me. I'd like to know where Sikhs who don't keep their hair fit in? I am one of them. I love gurbani, love the ideals of Sikhi...they sustain me. But I don't keep my hair, not for any other reason than I don't...

YAMUNANAGAR: Call it yet another posture to avoid action, the district police on Monday expressed helplessness in arresting three students of Class XII, who allegedly snipped the hair of a Sikh boy following a spat at school last week. Notwithstanding the pressure mounted by district units...

WJKK WGJKF, My question is above. I did this when i was 13 years old, but not to make it look better, only because it itched very much. Are there any consequences for me, that Ive did that big sin. My parents weren´t much orthodox that they can enlight me, about it and it was very embarrassing...

Roots of Love: Exploring Hair in the Sikh Community Posted by Sundari | Sunday, March 20, 2011 – 9:05 pm Conversations about hair are often emotional for Sikhs – and therefore they are conversations which we tend to avoid. For many Sikhs, it is a constant struggle to explain the historical...

ots NEW DELHI: A man who was haunted by the mob during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, on Monday, alleged before a trial court trying senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others that he had to cut his hair and conceal his identity to escape death during the carnage. Manjeet Singh, a Sikh and...

By NIRAJ WARIKOO Detroit Free Press Staff Writer Sitting in the barber's chair, TejKiran Singh was torn. As a Sikh man, he had never cut his hair and kept it wrapped in a turban. But, tired of the laughs and insults from others, he decided to cut it in 1999. For months afterward, he was...

Sikh trainee's 'hair cutting while asleep' case indicates Malaysian ignorance The case of Malay Sikh losing face among community after miscreants cut off his hair while he was asleep, points to Malaysian ignorance about other religions and cultural practices. Professor Dr Shamsul Amri...

APAH, Jan 21 (Bernama) -- The National Service (NS) Training Department is leaving it to the police to get to the bottom of a case where a Sikh NS trainee's hair was cut while he was sleeping. The incident happened at his dormitory at the Sungai Bakap NS training camp in Penang on Sunday...

Zahid Hamidi promises action against hair cutting culprit KUALA LUMPUR: Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has promised a strict action against those responsible for cutting the hair of a Sikh national service trainee. He also requested the police to get to the bottom of the...

Julie Zappel, Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities said Thursday that they had found "no element of malice" after probing allegations by a Sikh teen that his hair was cut while he was asleep at a National Service training camp. The incident is a grave insult to...

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Hello, I am 16 years old. I started keeping my hair 3 years ago. I really regreted making this dicision. Keeping my hair caused me so much trouble in my life. I am also so unhappy with it. I just force myself to keep it cause i do not want to go to hell or be sinful. It is so hard if I want to...

An interesting query had come to me from a close female relative who happens to be an Amritdhari person. One of her female Sikh colleague had hair on her face like we Sikh have our beards. She had been facing a lot of comments from her friends and relatives and were constantly advised to get rid...

I understand one of the reasons we are not supposed to cut/trim our hair is because we want to keep the 'roop' given to us by God intact. But even the nails were given to us by God. Why is it ok to cut them regularly and not hair? Both nails and hair are made up of dead tissue and hygiene...

I have a lot of problem with hair falling out and nothing I've done so far has helped. Does anyone have any tips for looking after the hair? Any recommendations for shampoos etc? Thanks, Jasleen :happykudi: <a href="http://mhlnk.com/B1419C65" target="_blank"><img...