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Hi everyone

I have decided to wear a turban for the rest of my life. I have some questions that I would like your help with please - and only sikhsangat posters would be experts :biggrin2:

So here goes - I am tying a round turban with an orange keski underneath. My technique is to tie a orange keskhi. I then get the larr and cover my head by holding it directly vertical in the centre of my forehead i.e. joora and orange keshi is covered. Then I wrap it all the way around and I tuck in the final larr at the end.

So the questions -

1. I have noticed some people have turbans which are flat at the top but with me - you can see my joora (covered) - it is really obvious and I have been 'checking' out other peoples turbans and they are flat with no joora. How do people get it flat?

2. Turban for sports - My turban gets loose very quickly - how do you get it to not get loose? Sometimes I am scared of running or doing sports

3. Too tight around ears - So i thought I should make it tighter to make it less loose and now my ears hurt - Is it supposed to cover the top parts of your ears?

4. Sleeping - so if I want a nap (middle of day) - my turban literally falls off! Do people sleep in turbans? How do they keep it looking neat.

Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers

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beginning part explains how they keep it sort of rounded/flat.

Thanks for the replies, I've seen a lot of bad videos on YouTube!

I don't feel 'its sikh' to go about flattening the joora - you are supposed to have a Rishi knot. I think it's completely wrong to tie a turban and not have a Rishi knot underneath. At least I know that all flat turban people have no Rishi knots. Honestly I am completely horrified that you can be sikh and not value the Rishi knot which is supposed to protect and cover the tenth gate.

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To keep your jooda flat when tying dastar , you should do a Bunga (which I do myself) before you tie. Search for a dumalla video and watch them do the first part. Or you can do another way, where you twist your kesh and wrap your jooda without a knot (kinda loose) and then tie a patka. I used to do this until I learned how to do a Bunga. You don't have to use a bunga for dumalla only, you can even use it to tie Round dastar and maybe even triangle style dastar

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