A True Gold - Baba Sewa Singh
A saint from Punjab's Khadur Sahib has spent decades building roads, bridges, and schools with no motive beyond love for humanity. Baba Sewa Singh proves that true gold isn't found in temples, it's found in service.
A True Gold - Baba Sewa Singh
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 7 min
- Director
- Harjus Singh
- Executive Producer
- Satinder "Bicky" Singh
- Produced By
- Sikhlens
- Location
- India
Synopsis
In the Tarn Taran District of Punjab, Baba Sewa Singh Ji has quietly built an empire of service. His organization practices Kar Sewa on a massive scale: constructing roads and bridges, restoring Gurdwaras and their community kitchens, and reviving holy ponds and lodges. But he didn't stop at bricks and mortar. Recognizing that rural children needed opportunity, he founded the Nishaan-E-Sikhi International School in Khadur Sahib, a technology-equipped, child-centered campus surrounded by green landscapes. Then came environmental projects, rooted in the Gurbani teaching that Earth is our mother, Air our teacher, and Water our father.
What makes Baba Sewa Singh remarkable isn't the scale of his work, it's the spirit behind it. There are no covert motives, no organizational agendas. Just a man whose name literally means "service" living up to it every single day. His message cuts across every boundary: "Wherever you are, whatever religion you belong to, if you do good to others, that in itself is your Sikhism." This Sikhlens documentary captures a life that proves the most powerful thing you can build is something for someone else.
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Film Credits
- Director
- Harjus Singh
- Executive Producer
- Satinder "Bicky" Singh
- Produced By
- Sikhlens
- Writer
- Rupinder Kaur
- Editor
- Red Canals Films (Baldeep Singh)
- Music
- Manika Kaur (I Bow To You Waheguru)
- Subtitles
- Rupinder Kaur
- Film Location
- India
- Runtime
- 7 min
- Festival Screenings
- Sikhlens Arts and Film Festivals