Word: sagar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endless war between bureaucracy and the individual, a new skirmish was being fought last week in industrial Manchester. A 6-ft., nobly bearded Sikh named Gyani Sundar Singh Sagar. 43, having passed the examination to become a conductor on Manchester's municipal buses, was eager to don the navy-blue uniform of his chosen calling. But since the Sikh Holy Book, the Adi Granth. says that "a Sikh is never to wear a cap or shave his beard or head,'' Singh Sagar asked permission to keep his shoulder-length hair under a smoothly coiled turban rather than...
...religious beliefs turning up to work with all sorts of badges and devices.'' With a true bureaucratic horror of the unusual and un expected, he said, "What do we do if an orthodox Jew comes along? They don't work on Saturdays." He offered Singh Sagar. a graduate in languages and literature from an Indian university, other work in the bus terminal where he could wear his turban. But Singh Sagar stubbornly insisted on being a bus conductor or nothing. "I am a man of merit," he said. "I passed their tests for the job. It would...