by Sathnam Sanghera | Mar 14, 2021 | Features
I know people whose lives have been blighted by racism, but I’m not among them. One of my earliest childhood memories is of hiding, with tens of other Sikh families, in the local temple, as far-right gangs terrorized the Midlands, but our homes remained untouched and... 
by Sathnam Sanghera | Dec 22, 2016 | Features
Published in The Times It’s day three of my stay on a desert island in the Pacific, and as it rains ceaselessly in London and temperatures hit zero, I am lying under a tree on a bright white beach alongside two young women who have quickly become friends, watching the... by Sathnam Sanghera | Feb 1, 2014 | Features
Published in The Times There’s an awkward moment, for me at least, near the beginning of my meeting with Samuel L. Jackson in a hotel bar in Atlanta, Georgia, when I ask him for his opinion on 12 Years a Slave and he leans back in his leather chair, strokes his grey... 
by Sathnam Sanghera | Sep 30, 2013 | Features
Published in The Times When William Boyd was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd to write a new James Bond novel, he talked about the gig as if it were the fulfilment of a life’s dream. He had, he said, first fallen in love with 007 when he was a boarder at... by Sathnam Sanghera | Oct 7, 2011 | Features
Broadcast on the BBC, 2001 Over the years I have shed many of the outward manifestations of my Sikh upbringing. I cut my long hair off when I was 14, 5000 days of hair growth falling to the floor of a barber’s shop like a dead crow. I last danced to bhangra at a...
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