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Bishan Singh Bedi
Bishan Bedi is probably the finest left-arm spinner to have played cricket. He had qualities that went beyond mere wicket-taking, the essential elements that add up to not just greatness but something approaching the ideal.
October 4, 2017
Gurdeep Singh Pall
‘No one goes to Medina village. Why this particular village?’ asked the immigration officer intriguingly at the Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, USA, as he peered through his window, trying to get a closer look at me.
‘I have no idea, Officer, except that this was the address given to me by my host to fill on the arrival form,’ I replied, and distinctly remember wondering what was it about Medina that no one visited it.
September 18, 2017
Manjit Singh Gill
Through the nineteen eighties and the nineties, ITC’s Maurya Sheraton hotel on New Delhi’s Sardar Patel Marg was arguably one of the most iconic and towering addresses of the city. A reason being its Indian gourmet kitchen that rolled out some of the most delectable Indian food recipes. It was only natural that I met Chef Manjit Singh Gill at the Maurya, one of the main forces behind giving the hotel this kingly and elevated status.
September 4, 2017
Fauja Singh
My first ever meeting with the United Kingdom-based marathon runner, Sardar Fauja Singh was in the year 2005. At the time I was working on my very first book, Sikhs Unlimited, and our meeting had been set up at the Gurdwara Singh Sabha (Seven Kings), in Ilford, Essex.
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