Vaisakhi on BBC Radio Network

Happy Baisakhi!

This morning I was a guest on Sonia Deol's Morning Show on BBC's Asian Network.  We talked about how I came to live a Sikh lifestyle, what it means to live by Sikh values and the transformation in attitude which Baisakhi symbolises for me, all interspersed with some celebratory Bangra-dance music.  

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It was the music which first carried me back to my year living in Punjab, in the run-up to the Baisakhi Tercentennary Celebrations of 1999 when we spent many evenings dancing to its traditional rhythms with its updated beat.  Its contrast with the devotional music heightened the build up of the celebrations creating an exuberance such as I'd never previously witnessed.