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Countdown to Vaisakhi 2025: Harinder Singh

Day 14 of 14

Monday
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14
April
2025

Harinder Singh is the Co-Founder & Innovation Director at SikhRI. He appears on radio and television programs and speaks at universities, parliaments, museums, conferences, and civic institutions.

Harinder Singh is the Co-Founder & Innovation Director at SikhRI. He appears on radio and television programs and speaks at universities, parliaments, museums, conferences, and civic institutions. He has authored several books and articles integrating the political and the spiritual.

“This Vaisakhi, let us recommit to the IkOankar, Nam and Sabad. First, we want to become like IkOankar, the one who is creative and pervasive force.
Second, we want to be in Nam to identify with the One in both personal and intimate ways.
And third, our source of internal truth, our source of internal strength is in the Sabad, the words and sounds of infinite wisdom.”

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Harinder Singh

Senior Fellow, Research & Policy

Harinder Singh is the Senior Fellow at the Sikh Research Institute. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Wichita State University, an MS in Engineering Management from the University of Kansas, and an MPhil from Punjab University in the linguistics of the Guru Granth Sahib. 

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