AY 2020 – A POEM BY PINS
Wishing you a super blessed 2020 famalammmmmm!
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HAPPY 550th GURPURAB – SRI GURU NANAK DEV JI (1469 – 1539)
When I was younger, I didn’t really understand the concept of the Sikh faith I was born into. I didn’t get the routine of my family going to a Gurdwara (temple) each Saturday and the occasional Sunday, praying and chanting to hymns (Kirtan). I used to run out of Punjabi class because I didn’t quite get it, and go cry in the toilets, ha.…
View post →CEDAR VIEW CARE CENTRE – VISIT
So during my ‘Coming Home’ PINStallation at the Museum of Croydon , I’ve met so many diverse people, young and gold, from diverse backgrounds enter the space. One such group was The Cedar View Care Centre guys who whizzed down, and of course I gave them the full tour / breakdown of what the project was about, to which they positively responded and got involved in designing their brick boxes 🙂
Special thanks to Karen, who works at the Centre, for not only bringing the guys down but also for her enthusiasm in doing so, and really embracing the creativeness of it all, by literally creating a ‘PINShrine’ of the day in their reception area at the Centre – how random, how cool *Big up Kaz!…
View post →UNIQUENESS
To contribute your ‘Uniqueness’ is to enrich society with your flavor, your freshness, your thoughts, your talents, to which people may not like or agree with, but it’s your expression, your way of life. People can be so wired into a ‘Sense Of Sameness’ (SOS), when something or someone ‘Different’ comes along, they either disregard it as some sort of gimmick, or creates a sense of envy or jealously, like ‘wish I came up with that’, or simply ‘You don’t fit in to Our zone’, regardless of talent or whatever social status, OR they want you around to tick a box in their social circle, the ‘token’ box.…
View post →SOPHIA DULEEP SINGH – PRINCESS, SUFFRAGETTE, REVOLUTIONARY
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.…
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