Indarjit Singh

Thoughts (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

INCISIVE VIEWS AND COMMENTS ON NEWS OF THE DAY, COUCHED IN HUMOUR AND UNFAILING COMPASSION.RT HON BARONESS D'SOUZA CMG THE LORD SPEAKER (2011-2016)Lord (Indarjit) Singh's talks on BBC Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day' have inspired many including Royalty, Prime Ministers, Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders. One of Indarjit's talks in 1999 provided the impetus in setting up the Lambeth Group to celebrate the Millennium by setting up a Faith Zone at the Millennium Dome and to Indarjit hosting a National Service of Reflection and Reconciliation in the Queen's Gallery of the House of Lords. Tony Blair, the then Prime Minister described it as the most moving celebration of the Millennium he had witnessed. RT. HON. CLARE SHORT MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTSpeaking on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme on December 2004, on who she would like to nominate in the Programme's competition 'Listener's Lord', the person listeners would most like to see in the House of Lords.I would like to nominate Indarjit Singh. He contributes regularly on Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day', and he gives impressive homilies drawing on the wisdom of Sikh teachings to help us think through the moral issues of the day.Lord Singh came a close second to celebrated musician and human rights activist Bob Geldolf.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398432864
• Artikelnr.: 68962174

Autorenporträt

Lord Singh of Wimbledon CBE is an internationally recognised journalist and broadcaster and frequent commentator on social and religious issues. He is widely regarded as both the secular and religious voice of the British Sikh community. In 1989 he became the first non-Christian to be awarded the UK Templeton Prize 'for the furtherance of spiritual and ethical understanding'. Indarjit was named by The Independent, a leading British newspaper, as one of 50 people who have made a major contribution to world peace. In 2011 he was made an Independent Peer in the House of Lords.