Khalsa Rising

Khalsa Aid is a humanitarian organization founded by Ravi Singh on a simple Sikh principle: when people are suffering, you help them, regardless of who they are. The film follows the organization's work across several contexts: flood relief in the UK, and then international operations in Lebanon and Iraq, where Khalsa Aid deployed volunteers and resources to serve refugee populations in crisis. The scale of the work is remarkable; the philosophy behind it is straightforward.

Ravi Singh is a compelling subject precisely because he is not a complicated man. He identified a need, applied a Sikh value to it, and built an organization that has become one of the most recognized humanitarian groups in the world. The film captures him in the field and in conversation, showing both the logistics of large-scale aid work and the simplicity of its motivation. Khalsa Rising is a film about what seva looks like at its most demanding, most disciplined, and most genuinely selfless.