Dear Mr.Prasad, I have had the oppurtunity to stay with sikh family, move with them, visit golden temple in amritsar, and still maintain the friend ship with quite a few of them. A dedicated, hard working, & simple minded people with lot of respect for friendship and relations. Once rubbed a wrong way you will have worst enemy also. Love for good food, drinks ( though prohibited by their scripts). Will visit gurudwara every sunday no matter what happens. Community feeding, self working in all the gurudwara, are some unique qualitiies of the sikhs. Sikh punishment whoever it may be even president of a country has to appear before the temple committe and do the penace. Punishment like cleaning the shoes of the devotees, cleaning soild utensils in kitchen, cleaning the floors of the gurudwara, serving food , etc are done. None of the gurudwara is built or maintained by govt, but it done by the community itself. People from far of places will come forward to do the temple renovation. You cannot see a sikh beggar anywhere in india. They will make sure every one will get food and staying place near the gurudwara. A great community and hardworking desh premee's. In sacrifice for the country they are second to none. Great soldier community. Few misguided do things affecting the community but still they came back stronghly from the terrorist problem to the main stream. Such is the greatness of this community. Cheers!!