Amardeep Singh is an Indian researcher, writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Singapore. Currently, he and his wife, Vininder Kaur, are the managing directors of Lost Heritage Productions, a media production house started by them. He formerly worked in the financial sector as an executive. He won the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize in 2022 for retracing the journey of

Guru Nanak Gurū Nānak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539; Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ; pronunciation: , ), also known as ('Father Nanak'), was an Indian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet, who is regarded as the founder of Sikhism and is t ...

, the first Sikh Guru, in his docu-series '' Allegory: A Tapestry of Guru Nanak's Travels''.

Biography

His family migrated from

Muzaffarabad Muzaffarabad (; , IPA: ʊzəfːərɑːbɑːd is a city in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute ...

, Kashmir (now in

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) to

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in India (then

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) just before the

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in 1947. His father, Sunder Singh, was a goldsmith. After studying at the

Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, as a school model ...

, he went on to study Electronics Engineering from

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. He later did a master's degree in business administration from the

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, U.S. He worked in the financial sector for 25 years, during which he worked for the American Express for 21 years. He moved from India to Hong Kong and eventually settled in Singapore in 2001. He became a Singaporean citizen in 2005. He resigned from his job in 2013. In 2014, he started researching on the visual ethnography of

Sikh history Guru Nanak founded the Sikhism, Sikh religion in the Punjab region of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent in the 15th century and opposed many traditional practices like fasting, janeu, Upanayana, idolatry, caste system in India, caste ...

and legacy. He went to

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to document the tangible and intangible remnants of Sikh legacy in the country. In 2016, he published his first book ''Lost Heritage: The Sikh Legacy In Pakistan''. The book is based on his travels to 36 towns and villages of Pakistan. The book highlighted the magnificence of hundreds of Sikh gurdwaras, architecture, forts, arts, and culture. He went on to publish his second book in 2017, ''The Quest Continues: Lost Heritage - The Sikh Legacy In Pakistan''. For this book, he traveled to another 90 cities and villages. In 2020, he published two documentary films; ''Peering Warrior'' and ''Peering Soul'' based on his experiences in Pakistan. In 2019, he started working on '' Allegory: A Tapestry of Guru Nanak's Travels'', which is a 24 episode docuseries filmed across 9 different countries and 150 multi-faith sites. The English, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hindi, Urdu and Shahmukhi (Punjabi) versions are available on TheGuruNanak.com.

Works

* ''Lost Heritage: The Sikh Legacy In Pakistan'' - 2016 * ''The Quest Continues: Lost Heritage - The Sikh Legacy In Pakistan'' - 2018

Filmography

* ''Peering Warrior'' - 2020 * ''Peering Soul'' - 2020 * '' Allegory: A Tapestry of Guru Nanak's Travels'' - 2021-22

Awards

* The Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize - 2022

References

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External links

Lost Heritage Productions Website

Allegory: A Tapestry of Guru Nanak's Travels on TheGuruNanak.com

Documentary Peering Soul on Youtube

Documentary Peering Warrior on Youtube
Writers from Punjab, India Punjabi-language film directors The Doon School alumni Singaporean Sikhs Indian expatriates in Singapore Punjabi-language writers Film directors from Punjab, India People from Muzaffarabad District People from Gorakhpur Manipal Academy of Higher Education alumni Sikh writers