by Conner VanderBeek | Feb 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
AND NOW, THE PARADE. To start, I recommend watching the video shot from the drone flying overhead during the festival: The beginning and end of the drone flyover shows the beginning of the parade — the starting point of my post. The lead float of the parade is a...
by Conner VanderBeek | Feb 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
At the back of the langar hall on the Sikh Temple of Yuba City grounds stands a wooden shelf completely filled with Punjabi newspapers. These are the same papers that pile up on the shelf beside my grandfather’s bed, newspapers that have, for years (the weight...
by Conner VanderBeek | Feb 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
In the middle of November of 2014, I went with the families I was staying with in Mohali and Landra, Punjab, to see Harry Baweja’s animated film Chaar Sahibzaade (tr. Four Sons, Sahibzaade being a formal, respectful term for sons), which tells the story of Guru...
by Conner VanderBeek | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
“If immigration stopped tomorrow, these gurdwaras would be empty,” foretold Nandeep Singh, co-founder of Jakara Movement, in his presentation titled “Why Don’t We Care About Our Kids?” Jakara Movement is a non-profit organization...
by Conner VanderBeek | Jan 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Now, anyone who read this blog in its past life knows that I love politics, especially Punjabi politics. It is with this in mind that we turn to the Yuba City Sikh Festival and a seminar that was held in the Dashmesh Hall (meaning Hall of the Tenth Guru, Guru Gobind...
