Sasha Sabherwal, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, delivered a talk entitled “Collective Fictions of Caste: Unsettling Caste, Gender, and Religion in the Sikh Diaspora ...

A Chukchansi tribe dancer performs during the third annual Indigenous Peoples Day celebration at Fresno City Hall on Oct. 10, 2022. JUAN ESPARZA LOERA Fresno Bee file Like other communities in ...

YUBA CITY, CA – Yuba City Mayor Wade Kirchner and the Sikh community have released a letter opposing Senate Bill 403 (SB 403) in the State Assembly. The letter raises concerns about the potential long ...

There’s a sense of refuge Satnam Singh has found in Yuba City. After leaving his home state of Punjab in the late ‘80s, he soon joined the tens of thousands of Punjabi Sikhs that call California’s ...

As a teenager picking apples in the Central Valley town of Mendota, Miguel Arias was puzzled when Mexican farmers yelled the insult “Oaxaquita” at Oaxacans working in the fields. His parents explained ...

CHANDIGARH, (IANS) – A hard critic of the Khalistan movement and the survivor of a brutal attack in Vancouver in 1985, this 76-year-old former Canada’s British Columbia premier of Punjab origin, who ...

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...

With the government announcing a caste census this year, Sikh organisations have asked members of small sects, especially those living outside Punjab, to specifically mention their religion in the ...

Like other communities in California, the city of Fresno prohibits discrimination and harassment based on race, color, ancestry, religion, creed and national origin. Now, in what would be a first in ...