Never been over religious, more a spiritual inclination over the years, especially the older you get, you question things more, plus growing up and being born a Sikh, I guess I kinda just went with the flow of attending Gurdwaras (Sikh Temples) with mum & dad without much interest in the deeper teachings of the faith, until I understood more on the philosophy side, the Sikh way of life…
Vaisakhi is the Sikh New Year festival which commemorates 1699, the year Sikhism (The Khalsa) was born as a collective faith through Guru Gobind Singh.…
I love art. The more I sketch, the more i’m seeing, what lies within, the canvas, the surface, the form, the shape, everything…plus, anything which gets you off ya phone and more in the zone, is a good thing!
Popped down to Tate Modern to check out the Pablo Picasso exhibition, featuring more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, mixed with family photographs and personal life bits.…
Didn’t get time to make a full on banner to march the streets with today, but decided i’d become a physical banner myself, make some Sophia inspired badges and bang them on a coat…and perhaps, hopefully have a lovely conversation with people about who Sophia was and her importance to the Suffragettes movement.
Recently been reading more and more about the Suffragettes movement and how it all came about, and I was fascinated to discover that Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, the daughter of the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire in Punjab and his Christian missionary German/Ethiopian wife, was a prominent figure who pioneered the cause of women’s rights in Britain.
Realising this, being a British Sikh myself born and bred here in London, this prompted me to delve deeper into her unique story which was unbeknown to me all these years.…
I went along to the recent private view of ‘Croydon School Of Art’ at the Museum of Croydon, which celebrates its 150th anniversary as one of Croydon’s key cultural institutions, and came across some pretty looking banners draped across the tables…
My curiosity prompted me to find out more about them, so met Lindsay Ould, the Borough Archivist, who mentioned they were for a London-wide project celebrating 100 years of votes for women, made by community groups, museum visitors, school pupils and Museum of Croydon staff inspired by the borough and its history.…
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