Amardeep Singh | |
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Born | Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Education | |
Occupation(s) | Writer, filmmaker |
Organization | Lost Heritage Productions |
Website | lostheritage |
Amardeep Singh is an Indian researcher, writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Singapore. Currently, he and his wife, Vininder Kaur, are the managing directors of Lost Heritage Productions, a media production house started by them. [1] He formerly worked in the financial sector as an executive. [2] He won the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize in 2022 for retracing the journey of Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, in his docu-series Allegory: A Tapestry of Guru Nanak's Travels . [3] [4]
His family migrated from Muzaffarabad, Kashmir (now in Pakistani-administered Kashmir) to Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh in India (then British India) just before the Partition of India in 1947. [5] His father, Sunder Singh, was a goldsmith. [6]
After studying at the Doon School, he went on to study Electronics Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology. He later did a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago, U.S. [1]
He worked in the financial sector for 25 years, [7] during which he worked for the American Express for 21 years. [8] He moved from India to Hong Kong and eventually settled in Singapore in 2001. He became a Singaporean citizen in 2005. He resigned from his job in 2013. [8]
In 2014, he started researching on the visual ethnography of Sikh history and legacy. [9] He went to Pakistan to document the tangible and intangible remnants of Sikh legacy in the country. [10] In 2016, he published his first book Lost Heritage: The Sikh Legacy In Pakistan. [11] The book is based on his travels to 36 towns and villages of Pakistan. [12] The book highlighted the magnificence of hundreds of Sikh gurdwaras, architecture, forts, arts, and culture. [13] [14]
He went on to publish his second book in 2017, The Quest Continues: Lost Heritage - The Sikh Legacy In Pakistan. [15] [5] For this book, he traveled to another 90 cities and villages. [12]
In 2020, he published two documentary films; Peering Warrior and Peering Soul based on his experiences in Pakistan.[ citation needed ]
In 2019, he started working on Allegory: A Tapestry of Guru Nanak's Travels , [16] which is a 24 episode docuseries filmed across 9 different countries and 150 multi-faith sites. The English, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hindi, Urdu and Shahmukhi (Punjabi) versions are available on TheGuruNanak.com. [17] [18]
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