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Baba Bulleh Shah - A Personal Interpretation
17.02.2025
Khalis House is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Baba Bulleh Shah - A Personal Interpretation. Following the successful launch of his first book, 'Baba Bulleh Shah - A Selection of His Punjabi Poetry', author Dr. Wasim Ahmed has now produced a follow-up book to delve deeper into the Sufi poetry of Baba Bulleh Shah, by providing a personal interpretation of this seminal work.
Out 19th March 2025 - Pre Order today
Author: Dr. Wasim Ahmed
Format: Paperback, 114 pages
Veer Singh, Chief Editor
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Love, Truth & Divine
04.02.2025
Khalis House is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Love, Truth & Divine a brand new poetry book containing a beautiful collage of poetry, spirituality and Sikh history written by US-based Amar Mann Kaur.
Early praise:
"The world needs Sikh wisdom. These poems deliver the magic and beauty of our ancestors' call to Oneness with sweet simplicity and infinite love."
-Valarie Kaur, bestselling author of See No Stranger and Sage Warrior
"This is an extraordinary and invaluable poetic constellation of Sikh history. Critical events from the Sikh past are arrestingly voiced by roadways, fruit trees, rivers, pools, bazars, bricks… The foundational moment of Guru Nanak’s divine epiphany is told by the rejoicing waters of River Bein as they translucently embrace the Guru’s body; the horrific martyrdom of the tenth Guru’s young sons is told by the mourning Sirhind bricks as they are being forced to go up higher and higher, tighter and tighter to entomb the six- and nine-year-old tender bodies! Wondrously, provocatively, poignantly, Amar Mann Kaur makes us experience the Sikh past to imagine anew. Her thirty-one poems echo the thirty-one raga structure of the Sikh scripture, just as her beautifully tuned verses echo the scriptural rhythms. While making the past viscerally present for her readers, Kaur challenges us to question our contemporary reality. Why is Guru Tegh Bahadur’s martyrdom day not a National day? so the bustling Chandni Chowk asks.
Indeed, poet Amar Mann Kaur has singularly succeeded: “Nanak did not only write and sing love songs. He made poets, he set souls aflame…”
-Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, Crawford Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Colby College. Leading Scholar in Sikh Studies.
"The words in this collection are a rendezvous between the Divine & its beautiful creation. Join them for a yearnful spiritual ride."
- Vishavjit Singh is an artist, storyteller, creator of Sikhtoons.com and Oscar qualified animated short American Sikh.
Amar Mann Kaur is a physician, poet, art activist and wellness expert. Understanding the power of poetry for healing, activism and beauty; she embarks on meaningful artivism projects. She loves to explore the mystical, magical, mysterious nature of life, nature and Divine in her poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poets for Science, Bear River Review and Naad Pargaas. She loves to spend time in nature with family and friends. She is passionate about reducing the use of single use plastics. She lives with her husband and daughter in Michigan, USA.
Out 14th March 2025 - Pre Order today
Author: Amar Mann Kaur
Format: Paperback, 98 pages
Veer Singh, Chief Editor
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Khyaal: A Poetry Journal
24.01.2025
Khalis House is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Khyaal: A Poetry Journal, a brand new journal collection of poems written in Gurmukhi Panjabi with English transliteration and translation.
In a world where thoughts swirl endlessly in our minds, rarely do we find the courage—or the time—to capture them in words. Yet, the act of writing has an almost magical ability to declutter the mind, offering clarity, peace, and a sense of freedom. This is the essence of Khyaal, a book that is more than just poetry; it’s an invitation.
Rajbir Singh Sovereign has woven a collection of verses that feel less like poetry and more like whispers of the soul. His words don’t just speak—they nudge, encourage, and inspire readers to dive into their own thoughts. And the beauty of this book lies in its design: the blank pages nestled between the poems transform it into a journal, a sanctuary for your inner world.
Out 21st February 2025 - Pre Order Today
Pre Order today - Out 21st February 2025
Author: Rajbir Singh
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Veer Singh, Chief Editor
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'The Assassination of Indira Gandhi'
31.10.2024
Khalis House is pleased to announce the upcoming release of 'The Assassination of Indira Gandhi' a brand new comprehensive account written by Baljit Singh, Research Lead at the National Sikh Youth Federation.
On October 31st in New Delhi, the unthinkable occurred: the prime minister’s own prized bodyguards turned their weapons on the very leader they were sworn to protect. In an unprecedented betrayal, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh—aided by their government-issued firearms—assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in a brutal attack that left her body riddled with bullets.
Opening fire - at point blank range - Beant Singh fired five rounds from his .38 revolver, while Satwant Singh unleashed 25 rounds from his 9mm Sten submachine gun. Both assassins emptied their magazines, leaving a beloved prime minister, a personification of "Mother India", fatally injured by 30 bullets.
This shocking assassination sent ripples through the global community and exposed vulnerabilities within India’s security establishment. How could such an attack occur within the nation's most secure location? And how did the assassins slip past the intense surveillance measures put in place as part of India's military assault on Darbar Sahib, measures specifically designed to prevent such an incident?
Baljit Singh has painstakingly examined every available source to produce a comprehensive account that focuses on the lives and motivations of the assassins. The NSYF has also launched a Kickstarter campaign to ensure this book reaches the masses, with exclusive offers of the book alongside artwork for those who pledge their support.
Pre Order today - Out January 2024
Author: Baljit Singh
Format: Paperback, 180 pages
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Veer Singh
Chief Editor
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Vaheguru Everywhere
08.10.2024
Khalis House is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Vaheguru Everywhere is a brand new children's illustration book written by Harteg Singh and illustrated by Ana Carolina Nicolau.
The book follows the story of Nihaal Singh, a young boy who loves to learn about Sikhi. Nihaal has promised his parents to learn a new shabad every week, but the shabad of the week says to remember Vaheguru all the time, even when playing or doing homework. How can anyone do that? Join him on the journey to find out!
This story entails a fun adventure with swings, horses, school and even potatoes! Perfect for little readers and parents alike.
Pre Order today - Out 14th November 2024
Author: Harteg Singh
Illustrator: Ana Carolina Nicolau
Format: Paperback, 38 pages full colour illustration
Veer Singh
Chief Editor
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Seeking Oneness: Connecting Humanity Soil and Soul
15.07.2024
Khalis House is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Seeking Oneness: Connecting Humanity Soil and Soul - a brand new collection of poems by California based poet and artist Salma Arastu that will resonate with people of all walks of life. Foreword by Prof. Amritjit Singh.
Early praise:
"Salma Arastu’s words are a magic incantation, calling us to our highest human goodness. Her poetry is a healing balm, evoking radical, universal compassion and understanding, even as she helps us to grieve all the division, hatred and loss that has beset our poor, churning world. “Yes, I reimagine this broken world,” she says. With the “two wings of trust and hope,” she entreats us to see ourselves in the eyes of the other, to mend the broken threads of our shared human tapestry, and to repair our ailing world. She is an ecstatic Sufi poet, overflowing with unbounded delight and gratitude for sky, trees, breeze, birds, flowing waters. She speaks to each of us as “Friend,” inviting us back into a covenant of love with each other and with our beloved Earth." —Kitty Costello, author of Upon Waking, and co-editor of Muslim American Writers at Home: Stories, Essay and Poems of Identity, Diversity and Belonging
"Salma Arastu’s elegant and heartfelt poems bring us deep in into existential questions of current human rights disasters—and challenge us with the choice of love. Her poems spiral upward, beyond divisive egos, through nature to a oneness so divine. Open this book in times healing, relief, reflection—it open a place inside you from which can com conscious action." — Sharon Coleman, MFA Poetics, Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing.
"This insightful book of poetry reads like Salma’s paintings view: interconnected strands of a common cloth: the cloth of humanity. Her depth of vision and her immense compassion is interwoven within each poem, and all poems are stitched together within the collection, weaving a tapestry that, from every side and every corner calls upon humanity’s best qualities to resist self-annihilation and destruction. It provides a luminary to softly envelop and encourage an emergence above the discord. It is a harmonious shrouding of united sanity beyond the maladies threatening humanity’s existence." - Hanaa Walzer & Laila Hasib from “Voices in Solidarity with the People of Gaza,” Inked Resistance Islamic Publishing, 2024.
OUT 8th August, 2024
Author: Salma Arastu
Format: Paperback, 172 pages
Veer Singh
Chief Editor