It's hard to see why in this age of laser hair removal and depilatory creams, a young woman would want to retain her facial hair. And a considerable amount of that too, that shows up in a beard and side locks. But Balpreet Kaur a neuroscience student at Ohio State University, who not only has all this but wears a turban too, because she is a baptized Sikh that forbids her from removing body hair says, "this is who I am”. Take it or leave it. Perhaps JK Rowling, the celebrity author who has run afoul of the Sikh clergy for disparaging remarks about the facial hair of a Sikh girl in her latest book A Casual Vacancy had someone like Balpreet in mind when she crafted the character. Perhaps, she, who claims she did much research on Sikhisim before including a Sikh family in the plot of her book, thought that like the real Balpreet, her fictional Sukhwinder Kaur would be just as nonchalant about jibes from classmates on her manly appearance. But unlike the fictional character who got support from the Punjab based Sikh clergy, Balpreet fought her battle alone and came out a winner.