The Sikhs of Kabul

In 2012, Sardar Karandeep Singh Sethi and Narendra Singh Khalsa talk about Sikh life in Kabul. Sethi was born there in 1989, lives in Karte Parwan, and runs a small shop, while Khalsa says his family came from Delhi about 100 years ago and that he lives with his grandfather. Bobby Singh Bansal directed it, and it's a film by Sikhlens.

Sethi says the conditions are not good: fights break out, Muslims tell them to become Muslim, and the government gives no financial help, no housing, and no jobs. Most people get by as grocers, selling Punjabi suits, or doing odd jobs to pay rent and buy food, and no one has a large business. Punjabi isn't spoken here, and daily life is in Farsi (Dari).

There are no schools for the children, and if they go to Muslim schools they're mocked, their hair is pulled, and they're called kafir. Khalsa says that before 2001, under the Taliban, their lives were peaceful, and that the government now doesn't give them space to burn their dead. Women in the gurdwara say two families share one room, and they want to go to India, mostly for the children.