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Wedding of Siri Chand & Tej Kaur

Wedding of Siri Chand & Tej Kaur

Wow! This was an amazingly beautiful Sikh wedding. So much love in the Sangat for the two very special souls: Tej Kaur & Siri Chand Singh. This was a unique wedding full of joy and fun.
Here is a video that I made of some of the pictures. It’s like a meditation of joy and love! [...]

Journalist or Participant

Journalist or Participant

With my role at SikhNet I often find myself spending a lot of time capturing events through pictures, stories, videos and music. The goal is to share things that might inspire you and others. However, I find that sometimes this is at the cost of not really experiencing the event for myself. Either you are [...]

New Music from Snatam Kaur

I am starting to go through some of the saved recordings from Gurdwara over the past many months and will try to post them in the coming days/weeks. 
A week or so ago Snatam Kaur was back in action singing in Gurdwara with her little beautiful baby girl. She played Kirtan for about an hour in [...]

A Different Kind of Day

Today was a different day than the norm here in Espanola, New Mexico. We woke up to beautiful white covered ground and snow falling from the sky. It’s always so magical when the snow comes down and covers everything. The kids jumped out of bed and wanted to go out and play in the winter [...]

New Pictures

Just posted lots of new pictures, but too many to post here. Photos from the recent wedding, Halloween fun with the kids, and other stuff. You can check them out on my Flickr Photostream.

Dharma and Meher’s Wedding

Yesterday my friend Dharma Kaur got married to Meher Singh here in Espanola, New Mexico. As always, it was a joyous occation! So many of my old friends from school that I hadn’t seen in years were here so it was also like a mini re-union or sorts.
Here is a video with some of the [...]

Guru Gaddi Day in Espanola New Mexico

Today we celebrated the 300th Anniversary of Siri Guru Granth Sahib in our own small and humble way with a Nagar Kirtan and Gurdwara.
Friday night there was a nice event for the kids. After Rehiras everyone had langar together and then the Kids went outside to the Vaisakhi pavillion to hear stories with Mata [...]

Akhand Path – Guru’s Blessing

Dharam Singh (of Akal Security) shares his memories of the Espanola, Sikh Community and Akhand Paath history:
I’m not sure when the Akhand Path began here, but when my wife Dharam Kaur and I arrived  from the Tucson, Arizona ashram in January, 1974, the ashram was doing 2 Akhand Paths each week.There were approximately 35 [...]

Guru Ram Das Gurpurb Morning Kirtan

A few pictures from the Kirtan this morning to celebrate Guru Ram Das Ji’s Birthday. Click on the pictures to view them large.

Making a Statement

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A few weeks ago I was parking at my office and noticed this vary characteristic car parked next to mine. I’m sure we have all seen cars with one [...]

Bollywood Comes to Espanola (Hrithik Roshan’s Kites)

Yesterday me and the family decided to drive up to Abiquiu lake which is about 25 minutes outside of Espanola, New Mexico. The kids wanted to go swimming in the lake, but I wanted to get an early start to take some pictures of the awesome rocks/mountains. On the drive up we see this flatbed [...]

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