AdminAn Indian-American cardiologist has donated $1.5 million to the University of California -Irvine for creating a Sikh studies department on its campus .Dr. Harvinder Sahota donated the money to the university to create a department, to be named after Sahota’s mother, Bibi Dhan Kaur Sahota, reports India West. The department will teach Sikh studies as […]
An Indian-American cardiologist has donated $1.5 million to the University of California -Irvine for creating a Sikh studies department on its campus .Dr. Harvinder Sahota donated the money to the university to create a department, to be named after Sahota’s mother, Bibi Dhan Kaur Sahota, reports India West.
The department will teach Sikh studies as a regular course.“My mother taught me never to degrade anyone and respect everyone,” Sahota was quoted as saying.“I still abide by the lessons she taught me as a child. I wanted to honor my mother for the woman she was and the man she helped me turn out to be,” he told the paper.
A graduate of the Patiala Medical College in Punjab, Dr Sahota created perfusion angioplasty balloon in the mid-1980s. Now it is being used throughout the world, including India, Mexico, Ukraine and Russia.
The syllabus will cover Sikh studies from 1469 to 2015, and beyond. The department will include graduate and undergraduate courses in Sikhism, and students will have the opportunity to visit Sikh temples as part of the study program. The university is also planning for the collaboration with Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar, Punjab.
The courses are expected to begin in September 2016.
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