caption movement influences notableworks name genre image article_title birth_name occupation
col g. b. singh realism guru gobind singh gandhi cross examination behind the mask of divinity , gandhi under colonel g. b. singh history , political science 77colonelgb89778.jpg g. b. singh
 g.b.singh historian , biographer , columnist
g. b. singh

g.b. singh is the author of `` gandhi behind the mask of divinity '' , a biography of mahatma gandhi and `` gandhi under cross examination '' .
a periodontist , singh served in the us army as a colonel , one of a small number of sikhs allowed to retain articles of faith , grandfathered in after a change in policy in 1984 forbidding soldiers from exhibiting their religion with `` conspicuous '' clothing or style of hair or beard .
he is one of the only sikhs with a turban in the us army .
he has three daughters and a son .
his family currently resides in colorado .
although gb has retired from the us army , he is still actively involved in supporting rights for future sikhs to keep their article of faiths in the military .
in an interview singh said that he became interested in studying hinduism while a student of political science at the university of oklahoma .
in 1983 , while watching the film `` gandhi '' and after reading an article , `` the gandhi nobody knows '' by richard grenier , he began his investigation into gandhi 's life , which led to the book `` gandhi behind the mask of divinity '' .
