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Sikh Raj Miniatures, Documents, To Be Auctioned NEWS REPORT

The superb miniature portrait was painted on ivory set in white gold brooch, also inscribed on gold - ‘Runjeet Singh'.

He Makes Replicas Of Religious Shrines To Promote Peace NEWS REPORT

Shaken by the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms, a 62-year-old Sikh artist has since been trying to bring people of different faiths under one roof.

Was Sobha Singh Painting Stolen From Amritsar's Sikh Museum in 1984? Based on News Report by DHARMENDRA RATAUL

The Museum also had a portrait of Guru Nanak commissioned in 1969 on his 500th birth anniversary. This portrait is also missing.

The Life of an Irish Sikh: A Photo Exhibit in Derry, Northern Ireland by DERRY JOURNAL

The turban is just one aspect of an interesting exhibition currently taking place at Derry's Tower Museum.

Sobha Singh Work Fetches Rs.10.4 Million NEWS REPORTS

An oil portrait of the great 19th century Sikh Emperor, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, fetched US $236,500 crore at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Fingers of Magic: The Art & Craft of Joginder Singh HANDS OF INDIA

On entering a neat and clean house, my eyes fell on a bird in the process of embroidery, along with its photos and sketches lying around.

A Sikh Wedding: Through The Lens of Hi-Tech Virtual-Reality by SANDEEP SINGH BRAR

Each image tells a multitude of stories, by clicking and dragging your mouse along, or by zooming in and out.

Sohan Singh Qadri: Painter, Poet & Sãdh OBITUARY

He "has walked into Punjabi poetry like a not so polite sãdh mendicant and there is no match for his crisp and ringing language that sounds like a sãdh's chimta tongs."

Sotheby's To Auction Sobha Singh's Ranjit Singh by LALIT MOHAN

The portrait was most likely painted by Sobha Singh between 1947 and 1950. Being auctioned at the behest of a private art collector, it has been priced at US $300,000 - 400,000.

Art & Aesthethics in Sikhism by NIKKY GUNINDER KAUR SINGH

Both of Guru Arjan's monumental tasks aspired to fulfill Guru Nanak's aesthetic injunctions. In Nanak's words: "Only the relisher of fragrance can recognize the flower ..."