Waris Ahluwalia: The NY-based Sikh designer-actor who has a day dedicated to him for fighting racial discrimination

 


Serendipity – something Waris Ahluwalia is not alien to. Be it his first Hollywood film offer, the launch of his boutique store House of Waris or a day in his honor, 47-year-old Ahluwalia has been at the right place at the right time. But the polymath has gone from strength to strength in the last few decades. From fashion to jewelry and films to activism, this Indian American has been a prominent face of it all.

Though many things have happened as an act of fate in this designer and actor’s life, he has always worked for what matters the most to him – standing up for religious tolerance and speaking out against racial discrimination.

But it hasn’t been an easy journey for this boy from Amritsar who made it big on the global stage.

The odd one out in America

It was in Punjab where Ahluwaia’s journey began. Born to a linguistic professor father and a teacher mother in Amritsar, Ahluwalia was all of five when he moved to an American neighborhood in New York with his parents. With no Indians or Sikh friends around, his family made sure to keep him rooted to his Indianness. Read More


Location: G-B Ashirwad, 3, Mc Nichols Rd, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600031, India

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