Ravi Singh needs a Nobel Prize

[S1ngh]

Sahaita from California is also doing much needed sewa in Punjab. It was started by one dr and he is really down to earth guy.

http://www.sahaita.org/

[TejS]

I agree with the notion that we must first succeed as a community ourselves, before going out and fixing the issues of others, and of course, charity begins at home. However, what Ravi Singh is doing isn't bad at all. I think we as a community have developed a very bad habit of criticizing each other for any achievements whatsoever. I agree that Ravi Singh should be doing more for Sikh issues, but he's also not doing anything bad either, he's instead following Sikhi by helping people irrespective of their faith, creed, ethnicity (so basically recognizing the human race as one). I think we need to overlook some of his faults (which I agree he does have, but who doesn't) and instead see how we can get not only him more exposure, but our community good exposure as well. Name one Sikh that has won a Nobel Prize, none. It wouldn't hurt to have one, and so if there's a likely candidate such as Ravi Singh, why not back him up?

@jkvlondon Of course the reward of seva is unmatched by anything, however a Sikh getting a Nobel Prize is a great achievement for our community, collectively. So I don't see what's wrong in helping Ravi Singh achieve that goal, which is ultimately a communal goal. 

[superkaur]

On 9/15/2017 at 5:50 PM, proactive said:

I've had the same opinion for many years. I remember having a debate with Ravi Singh on Sikhnet over 16 years when Khalsa Aid was collecting money for the Gujarat earthquake. I asked him why he wasn't doing anything for Punjab and those Sikh farmers committing suicide (yes, the issue does go far that back) there who needed help. His view was that Khalsa Aid needed to gain a 'reputation' by helping in other causes first and  then start projects for Punjab. I thought that was a BS excuse then and seeing how they have only done some minor work in Punjab while the vast majority of funds goes towards non-Sikhs shows that was just an excuse. His other argument was that they were only involved in humanitarian and disaster relief so they could not help the Sikh farmers! 

It's an unfortunate fact but Sikh organisations such as Khalsa Aid and United Sikhs are mainly only interested in rushing to help non-Sikhs  while pushing the needy Sikhs to the side. Only organisation that I see which is involved in Sikh causes is Sikh Relief. They should be the ones that we should be giving donations to and not Khalsa Aid. 

Although I admire ravi singh in many ways for being a humanitarian and he clearly has pro-sikhi creditianls often battling hindutva extremists on twitter when exposing crimes against Sikhs by the indian govt however I feel his org Khalsa Aid is not actually khalsa Aid its not aiding Sikhs its aiding mostly non-sikhs and thats a fundamental flaw in its remit, its vision and goal as a Sikh charity it should be purely Sikh centric and its missed the mark for years now.

The first time I heard of khalsa Aid was back in April 2000 during vaisakhi nagar kirtan some guys with labels of help for kashmiri Sikhs were collecting funds in buckets for the victims of the chattisinghpura anti-sikh massacre by islamo-fascist jihadis during bill clintons visit there. I thought wow our sikh brothers and sisters affected there are being helped by fellow Sikhs at last as I had never seen charities rising funds to help only Sikhs. I give some money but over the years I realised this Khalsa Aid and united Sikhs org are fake news are a sham they are not muslim charities where they only help their fellow muslims they are a charity that mascarades as a Sikh charity but in essence goes off helping more non-sikhs if anything.

Ravi singh as an individual is doing great for the image of Sikhs worldwide so aint going to knock him for that, I support him fully in helping yazadi's especially as they have no one that supports or helps them in the world whereas rohingya muslims have vast number of muslims and muslim govt's to help them.

Ravi singh does deserve humanitarian award but his organisation doesn't really deserve the respected title of a Sikh charity that only belongs to charities that actually using hard earn sangats money to help our brethren or spreads sikhi via parchar.