While a large number of Indian men do wear turbans (mainly if they’re practicing Sikhs), according to the 2011 census, India’s capital city Delhi has a Sikh population of about 3.4% ...

with the men among the deportees claiming they were in shackles throughout the flight and Sikh youths were allegedly without turbans. Of these 116 deportees, 65 were from Punjab, 33 from Haryana ...

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The Turban is the one thing that identifies a Sikh more than any other symbol of ... a masculine symbol and almost exclusively worn by men and not women. That’s until now it seems.

The turban is an eight metre long piece of cloth. It is used by Sikh men to hold their hair, which they are not allowed to cut. These Indian Sikhs are dressed as Panj Pyare. They are marching in a ...

assaulting Sikh men and forcibly removing their turbans in Rishikesh on Sunday, as Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) asked chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and state police chief ...

Sikhs are a cultural and religious group from the Punjab in northern India. Sikh men often wear beards and turbans as part of their beliefs and traditions. In 1990, Dhillon was accepted into the ...

While one of about a thousand soldiers, the 22-year-old Coldstream Guards soldier stood out during the Trooping the Colour ceremony because of his headwear: a turban. The India-born Sikh became ...

When he graduates next year, he will become one of a handful of Sikh doctors in Hong Kong – and one of the few to wear a turban. While not all Sikhs wear turbans, Singh dons one as an article of ...

Sikh men wear turbans as a sign of their faith, concealing their uncut hair, itself a symbol of spiritual consciousness. “We need people like us to be in positions of power so that our ...