Nikhil pal singh biography of william

Interview conducted by Rosa Burc & George Souvlis

Can you start by talking about your formative political and academic experiences?

My parents emigrated to the United States from Bombay, India in the late 1960s. My father had been an engineer working for ESSO, my mother, an elementary school teacher.

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A company fellowship gave my dad an opportunity to complete a business degree at Tulane University in New Orleans. Initially, my parents had no intention of staying in the United States. Liberalisation of US immigration law, plans to nationalize India’s oil industry, considerations about economic and educational opportunities for their children changed their minds.

After Tulane, my father took a job at W. R. Grace in New York City, and our family settled in northern New Jersey. US citizenship was a requirement for becoming a public-school teacher where we lived, so my mom (who grudgingly naturalized only a fe Nikhil Pal Singh - Arts & Science PIMI