A SIKH LETTER

‘Dear Takuya’. One California summer day, that’s what a little boy wrote to his pen friend across the seas.

For the soon-to-benine Simar, it’s important to tell his Japanese friend why he sports long, unshorn hair, why he wears a small scarf called patka knotted up and how he is bullied around.

Dear Takuya: Letters of a Sikh Boy by Jessi Kaur is a collection of 16 simple letters summing up Simar’s struggle for acceptance in the US and the principles of tolerance, forgiveness and love that he learns at a Sikh youth camp, post September 11, 2001.

For more information and to buy the book, please go to www.deartakuya.com