Spring 2023 Abstract This paper provides a dual perspective on an exhibit of Sikh art from the Kapany Collection thatwas curated at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz, fromJanuary to March 2022. The collection was donated to the Sikh Foundation International by Dr.Narinder Singh Kapany, a scientist, entrepreneur and … Read more
Spring 2021 Abstract The 1947 Partition Archive is a crowdsourced oral history repository that trains and empowerscitizens to document life stories of those who witnessed the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.The novel methods for oral history documentation used by The 1947 Partition Archive aim todemocratize the telling of history by exploiting modern communication … Read more
Fall 2020 Abstract In 2012 the president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee demanded that the novelistJK Rowling removes offensive text from her novel, The Casual Vacancy. This article focuses on theappropriateness of the Sikh-related content of two 21st-century novels –JK Rowling’s The CasualVacancy and Catriona Troth’s Ghost Town – against the backdrop of previous … Read more