The India of My Childhood and Youth [F-11-34]
| Presenter: | Chanchal Singh |
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| Location: | Partridge Knoll: Multi-Purpose Room |
| Classes: | 2 Sessions 1.5 hours |
| Dates: | Tue 10:30 AM 10/11, 10/18 |
| Status: | CANCELLED |
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The presenter will share his reminiscences about growing up in rural India. Some of the topics he will cover include: rural life, entertainments, family rivalries, the caste system, marriages, the partition of India in 1947 and other national and local topics and issues. He will display a variety of items he has brought with him from India – pictures, farm tools, games, etc.
After graduating from a parochial college in India, and seeing a dead-end future for himself in India, Chanchal Singh decided to apply to an American University. To his astonishment, he was accepted into graduate school in Berkeley. A good fellowship later lured him to the University of Michigan (where he met his future wife); then a teaching position at SLU brought him to Canton, NY -- and he knew that this was the place he wanted to stay and the life he wanted to have for himself and for his family.