Manohar Singh Gill: An Officer of the People
Southall
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The Aliens
Read more here →: The AliensThe Tribune (Magazine Section) | October 24, 1976Republished in The Statesman | January 2, 1977 We were standing at the bar sipping pints of bitter. The pub was rather special. Indian owned and Indian patronized, “The Oxford” stood in the seedy harbour front area of Southampton. The area around it was peopled by working class…
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Southall Revisited
Read more here →: Southall RevisitedThe Illustrated Weekly of India | July 11, 1976 The author, visiting Southall after eight years, finds the immigrant community in Britain greatly transformed. I first visited Southall in 1967. Being a former Deputy Commissioner of Jullundar, I was keen to see this new “canal colony” in the West that sent back such a steady…
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The Old Men of Southall
Read more here →: The Old Men of SouthallThe Tribune (Magazine Section) | June 13, 1971 “There they sit”! cried my guide excitedly as we spied a group of old men sitting on a park bench in Southall. His voice had the thrill of one who had spotted a covey of partridges in a Punjab field during a winter shoot. “They are here…
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Baisakhi in England
Read more here →: Baisakhi in EnglandThe Illustrated Weekly of India | April 12, 1970 Easter was the first holiday of 1968. And so the people of this affluent society gave themselves up to an organised, single-minded pursuit of leisure. Ten million cars on the roads, traffic queues miles long with police in helicopters trying to unsnarl them, hundreds of fatal…