Opinderjit Takhar MBE (Punjabi: ਓਪਿੰਦਰਜੀਤ ਤੱਖਰ) is a researcher and director of the centre for Sikh and Punjabi studies at the University of Wolverhampton.
[1] Opinderjit regularly talks about Sikh religion and culture and has provided a keynote speech to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in 2017 in Parliament talking about his egalitarian and feminist teachings.
[2] She has also delivered the first Sikh lecture in Parliament within the Speaker's State Rooms as part of Sikh Heritage Month in 2019.
[3] She talks about Sikhism in the media and has shared her own story of being inspired by her religion on BBC local radio[4] in addition to speaking on BBC Wolverhampton[5] on her role in the BBC documentary Being Sikh.
[6] In 2019 she visited India to look into building links between British and Indian Universities and developing exchange programmes for students studying Sikh and Punjabi studies.