Sikhs find community, culture away from home
Before coming to college, Arjan Singh ’11 said his Sikh heritage permeated his life. But at Yale, he found that sense of community missing.
“Back home, every week on Saturdays, my family got together to meet with another Sikh family, to meditate and to sing hymns,” Arjan said. “Spirituality and religion are very rarely talked about here [at Yale].”
During the past two months, Singh and other Sikhs at Yale have come together to form the Sikh Student Society at Yale. Although the group currently has just 10 members — which is the entirety of the University’s undergraduate and...
Go Arjan! I'd just been thinking the other day that my high school (in California) seemed to have so many more Sikhs than here...I guess technically I was right, which is too bad. It's good to see someone forming a community here.