Breaking the story of the Skipping Sikh, with journalist Minreet Kaur

This week’s guest is Minreet Kaur, an award winning broadcast journalist who was behind the story of the Skipping Sikh MBE which won report of the year 2020. Shortlisted for media award 2021 by Asian Women of Achievement Awards, she tells stories of religion, feminism, culture, diversity from the unreported communities.

• The daughter of the famous Skipping Sikh, Minreet was the person who inspired her dad to start skipping during the COVID-19 lockdown. They raised £15,000 for NHS charities.
•  Growing up in UK in a Sikh family, she talks about the values of Sikhism and how they played out in her family when she was growing up. 
• Divorce used to be a stigma and taboo in the Sikh community and she describes how she came through her own depression and divorce, and helped to change her community's attitude to it.
• She became a journalist and decided to focus on stories of religion, feminism, culture and diversity from the unreported communities.

Thanks Minreet for your work that expresses the Sikh values of living with honesty, compassion, generosity, humility, integrity, service, and spirituality on a daily basis and for showing us that by acting in service to others we can help to care for the welfare of humankind.

You can find out more about Minreet’s work on Linkedin @minreetkaur

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