Anup Singh Choudry
Anup Singh Choudry is a Sikh writer and businessman based in the UK. He has written several books of which the Sikh Pilgrimage to Pakistan is most noteworthy for Sikhs. Mr Choudry who is born in 1950 is 57 years old and arrived in the UK in 1969 as a student. His mother, Narinder Chowdhary, 75, migrated permanently to the UK three years later with the rest of the family as a result of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin expelling all Asians from the country.
She and her late husband have always been dedicated, practising Sikh and have made every effort to bring up their family in the Sikh tradition. In a recent interview with the BBC she said the following:
"My Sikh background was very important in forming my concept of respect. I respected my parents and my elders but these days we can't be sure whether our children will respect us or not."
"My own six children respect me - now I am disabled they come and help me, if it weren't for them I wouldn't be able to do anything. For me respect is when children do things for their elders, they want to respect them. But these days I don't think there is any respect in this country."
Mr Choudry who is the son of Mrs Narinder Kaur is a businessman based in North London who has three children - an 18-year-old daughter and two sons, one aged 11 and 17-year-old A-level student, Satvir. They are practising Sikhs who take a keen interest in the events that take place in their local Gurdwaras. Mr Choudry said the following in a recent interview:
" In any decent society or civilised society we all have the same values as human beings and our values have a base in our spiritual values. At the moment society is looking to its social fabric to give it values and forgetting the spiritual base. And that is where we are losing respect as we would define it in the previous generations."
"In my generation I was taught to respect elders, neighbours, the authorities and teachers. The moment that discipline breaks down what happens is a loss of respect for teachers, for your parents, your religion and the law."
Publications
- Sikh Pilgrimage to Pakistan
- Flight to Freedom
- Lawyers Office Directory A-Z Edited by Anup Singh Choudry and published in 1989. It was the first A-Z legal directory published in the UK. ISBN 0 9513894 0 8
