Young so­cial ac­tivist Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja is the new age me­dia artiste, in­flu­encer and world trav­eller who joins the one mil­lion Twit­ter club through his ac­tivism, which makes his in­ter­na­tional fol­low­ers, fam­ily, friends, the com­mu­nity and the World Sikh News proud of his un­par­al­lelled achieve­ment.

Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja is the new age so­cial me­dia in­flu­encer who zeal­ously cre­ates in­ter­est in global and lo­cal hu­man­i­tar­ian causes and good­will for Sikhs and evinces in­ter­est in Sikhism and its val­ues through his Twit­ter me­dia crafts­man­ship, which makes him the first such Sikh so­cial ac­tivist to cross the mil­lion fol­low­ers mark.

He is not a politi­cian with a con­stituency nor a singer or an ac­tor with a fan fol­low­ing. He is not a sportsper­son who has won medals and not an en­gi­neer­ing start-up or a man­age­ment guide.  Sift­ing chaff from the grain, he chis­els out news, adding his nu­ances which makes read­ing in­ter­est­ing, the fo­cus uni­ver­sal and not parochial which has re­sulted in the mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion of him lit­er­ally carv­ing out an in­deli­ble niche in the Sikh so­cial me­dia world on the in­ter­net and as a Sikh youth icon in life.

Be­yond so­cial me­dia, he has had ex­ten­sive and ex­clu­sive cov­er­age of his events and ac­tiv­i­ties in the me­dia in Lud­hi­ana and Pun­jab. World Sikh News is de­lighted on his achieve­ment and is priv­i­leged to have him as our close as­so­ci­ate, sup­porter and critic. 

Every morn­ing, Sikh Para­medics, Doc­tors and vol­un­teers sit out­side Gur­d­wara Sahib Sis Ganj, Delhi (on the foot­path). They clean the wounds, ap­ply ban­dages, and give med­i­cine to the poor and those in need. They dis­trib­ute tea too #Wa­he­guru via @Swat­Lon­don pic.twit­ter.com/​ggvI­h­h1bg2

— Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja (@Singh­Lions) De­cem­ber 3, 2017

“When­ever Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja steps foot in a new coun­try or a new place, delves into a new sub­ject, he car­ries with him his in­domitable spirit of ad­ven­ture, his knowl­edge of the her­itage and legacy of Sikhs, his vast ex­pe­ri­ence and reach of ac­tive and sig­nif­i­cant in­flu­ence in the world through so­cial me­dia.”

An in­sti­tu­tion by him­self, as part of his hu­man­i­tar­ian com­mit­ment, he would be trav­el­ling this month to Gaziantep, Turkey to meet Syr­ian refugees be­ing taken care of by the Turk­ish gov­ern­ment.  On a trip spon­sored by Visit Britain, he would be dis­cov­er­ing Lon­don and Birm­ing­ham as fam­ily des­ti­na­tions, where he trav­els with his wife and two sons to cel­e­brate Christ­mas and to know and ac­knowl­edge the Sikh con­tri­bu­tion to British so­ci­ety.

If ever the Sikh com­mu­nity in­sti­tutes a prize for a Sikh Global Good­will Am­bas­sador of the Sikhs, who through his so­cial ac­tivism, Twit­ter reach and trav­els world­wide have made a name for the com­mu­nity and him­self, I find it dif­fi­cult to find a bet­ter con­tender than Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja of Lud­hi­ana, Pun­jab.

The @May­o­rofLon­don who is a Mus­lim vis­ited the most sa­cred place of the Sikh faith – the beau­ti­ful Golden Tem­ple in Am­rit­sar, Pun­jab. Sikhs play a huge part in mak­ing Lon­don the most di­verse and open city in the world. Thank you Mayor @SadiqKhan for demon­strat­ing #Lon­don­IsOpen  pic.twit­ter.com/​fac3blGqGf

— Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja (@Singh­Lions) De­cem­ber 6, 2017

At a time when the Sikh me­dia is evolv­ing and the So­cial Net­work pres­ence of the Sikhs is vastly am­a­teur­ish, Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja comes out loud and clear as a torch-bearer of Sikh val­ues and the uni­ver­sal ethics of the Sikh re­li­gion. His com­mu­niques and style of pro­mot­ing the good­ness of the Sikh com­mu­nity are em­u­lated mak­ing him the Global Good­will Am­bas­sador of the Sikhs with his reach in the Sikh and non-Sikh world.

All but 31, Har­jin­der is a global cit­i­zen with strong tra­di­tional roots, a va­ri­ety of in­ter­ests, an amaz­ing me­dia reach -so­cial, print and in­ter­net, with an im­pact­ful au­then­tic and ver­i­fied ‘pub­lic fig­ure’ pres­ence on var­i­ous so­cial me­dia plat­forms.

Trav­el­ing abroad as a Tur­ban wear­ing Sikh with beard, one some­times gets ‘the looks’, ‘the stares’. If only they knew. The Tur­ban & beard rep­re­sent a fierce com­mit­ment to uni­ver­sal equal­ity & love.
Feel the anx­i­ety of a Tur­baned Sikh and smile/​greet him. He will bless you  pic.twit­ter.com/​tuZUl­DovWt

— Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja (@Singh­Lions) No­vem­ber 29, 2017

With his Twit­ter fol­low­ers count touch­ing a mil­lion, Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja has joined the crème de la crème club of so­cial me­dia ac­tivists. Ac­tor and singer Amnin­der­pal Singh Virk, pop­u­larly known as Ammy Virk joined him in cut­ting the one-mil­lion-fol­low­ers cake.  

When­ever Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja steps foot in a new coun­try or a new place, delves into a new sub­ject, he car­ries with him his in­domitable spirit of ad­ven­ture, his knowl­edge of the her­itage and legacy of Sikhs, his vast ex­pe­ri­ence and reach of ac­tive and sig­nif­i­cant in­flu­ence in the world through so­cial me­dia.

 

His so­phis­ti­cated for­ays into meet­ing diplo­mats around the globe, his work with high­light­ing the con­tri­bu­tion of Sikhs in the World Wars, pres­ence at the un­veil­ing of the bust of Ma­haraja Ran­jit Singh in St. Tropez, France, scuba div­ing with the tur­ban in Turkey and sky­div­ing with the tur­ban in Mel­bourne, and his unique de­tours as a keen fam­ily trav­eler have been ac­knowl­edged by diplo­mats, gov­ern­ments and tourism boards of many coun­tries.  His pas­sion­ate cy­cling to evoke pub­lic in­ter­est in the en­vi­ron­ment and a va­ri­ety of so­cial causes in Berlin, Paris, Mum­bai and Sin­ga­pore makes him a God-gifted multi-faceted per­son­al­ity.

His achieve­ments would be a lit­tle less com­plete with­out ac­knowl­edg­ing his busi­ness acu­men as a restau­ran­teur and choco­latier whose Kukreja fam­ily brought San­jeev Ka­pur’s de­li­cious dishes to Lud­hi­ana fol­lowed by Har­jin­der’s for­ays into French cui­sine and Bel­gian choco­lates.

Most don't know 1000s of Sikh sol­diers died in Bel­gium in the World War 1! Glad I could cre­ate some aware­ness. #Sikh pic.twit­ter.com/​e4s­b65n7g0

— Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja (@Singh­Lions) Au­gust 2, 2016

Sig­nif­i­cantly, he does all this with the re­spon­si­bil­ity and pro­fes­sion­al­ism of a well-es­tab­lished busi­ness per­son, the in­ter­ven­tion of a pub­lic speaker and in­flu­encer, the gre­gar­i­ous­ness of a Pun­jabi and the de­vo­tion and phil­an­thropy of a Sikh.

“With his Twit­ter fol­low­ers count touch­ing a mil­lion, Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja has joined the crème de la crème club of so­cial me­dia ac­tivists.”

Start­ing as Sikhi Mes­sage Sewa, nearly 8 years ago, on the oc­ca­sion of Ter­cente­nary of Guru Granth Sahib, Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja will use the lat­est tech­nolo­gies to usher in cel­e­bra­tions of the forth­com­ing Guru Nanak Purab 550-year cel­e­bra­tions in his own inim­itable way. If his Sikhi Mes­sage Sewa (SMS) was a down­pour as WSN then wrote, from the one mil­lion Twit­ter on­wards it is go­ing to be a thun­der­storm of adorable and lov­able mes­sages.

Speak­ing of his Sikhi Mes­sag­ing Sewa, in 2008, Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja said, “I will be con­cen­trat­ing on spread­ing the Gu­ru’s word and the unique Sikh con­cept of Sar­bat da bhala -Wel­fare of all hu­mankind through ac­tive net­work­ing.” 

Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja has be­come the FIRST Sikh to Scuba dive with the full Tur­ban on to gen­er­ate re­spect… https://​t.co/​sQsnN­F­Sjna

— Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja (@Singh­Lions) April 23, 2017

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From the phone to the smart­phone, Har­jin­der Singh Kukreja has trav­elled with the times tak­ing his fol­low­ers along!