Badlega India
The Sikh wear the turban not just as a mark of respect. The turban also signifies dedication, courage and piety. There have been a number of cases where the Sikh community has stood up for humanity, not caring about what the rest of the people would say about them.
Swaran Singh, 28 years old from Punjab, took off his dastaar to save a drowning dog. This happened when he was passing a canal while driving down in his car and saw a set of people pointing at the canal. That was when he knew something was wrong and stopped to see.
Swaran told to Mirror, “I was travelling when I saw a group of men pointing towards the canal. I stopped my car and went over to check what was happening. I was shocked to see that there was a dog was drowning but no was actually helping.”
“The moment I started taking off my turban, people watching around were shocked. They thought I was disrespecting my faith. But what was important at that point was to save the animal’s life.”
He saw that a dog was drowning and that none of the people watching on were doing anything about it. So, he decided to go down himself, well aware of the fact that he did not know how to swim. He used a part of his turban to wrap around the dog’s neck and with the other part, he hoisted himself down into the canal.
He told, “The dog wasn’t comfortable. He was not coming to me at all. We had to follow him for around 200 metres before I was able to wrap my turban around his neck and pull him to safety.
The dog was frightened, so I fed him some biscuits and let him go on his own.”
Someone witnessing this braveheart captured all the moments restoring our faith in humanity:
