The Sikhs are a community who have long stood for honour and bravery of the very highest order. And believe me, the world has no dearth of examples when these Rab de bandey went out and beyond their means to be the very best humanity has to offer, and remind us all in the process, that kindness, courage and compassion have not disappeared from the world yet. If you feel you need a refresher, though, read on for the times when Sikh people were the embodiment of all that is good about humanity. When young Sikh volunteers organised a 24-hour 'langar' for those stranded during the Jat agitations just over a week ago. A round-the-clock community kitchen was set up by dozens of Sikh volunteer teams, offering food and shelter in the Gurudwara to the thousands that were left stranded on the Delhi-Ambala national highway (NH-1) thanks to the road blockades that were put up by Jat protesters for almost two days.

When a Sikh man transcended communal differences and had a mosque built in the village for its Muslim residents.

In the remote village of Sarwapur, a wealthy farmer Joga Singh, watched the Muslim residents travel to a mosque nearly 10 kms away to pray 5 times a day for years. So the man built, together with his Sikh friends, a mosque for his Muslim friends.

When two Sikh heroes unravelled their turbans to save young men from drowning.

When a group of four young men near drowned in gushing waters of a canal in Chandigarh, two heroic Sikh men - Inderpal Singh and Kanwaljit Singh - put saving lives above religious protocol. They took off their turban when there was no other means to reach the drowning men, and pulled them to safety.