Word: singh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARI SINGH EVEREST Roseville, Calif...
...KULDIP SINGH...
...string of 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...
Rallying to Singh Sagar's side, his 700 fellow Sikhs in Manchester drew up a document pointing out that in two world wars. 82,000 turbaned Sikhs had been killed in battle, and Sikhs had won more than half of the Victoria Crosses awarded to the Indian army. If they could die for Britain in their turbans, asked the Sikhs, could they not be allowed to work in them? Support also came from Manchester's mighty Guardian: an editorial suggested that, with or without caps, no one looked tackier than the average Manchester bus conductor. Asked an indignant...
Last week, even more dismayed by public outcry than by private eccentricity, harried Bureaucrat Morris hurriedly put the case of Singh Sagar back on the agenda for next month's Transport Committee meeting. "Perhaps," said stubborn, turbaned Singh Sagar. "I will be the first Sikh to ring a Manchester Corporation bus bell...