Comments on: A Walk With Suresh Singh

By: Linder

Linder — Sat, 30 May 2020 19:00:26 +0000

A fantastic book through which Suresh and the family can remember an amazing inspirational man. Many will read this book and reminisce about personal experiences around the East-end I know I did. Thank you for that. ??

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Fri, 24 May 2019 08:02:38 +0000

And there may well be delicious samosas available too…

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Fri, 24 May 2019 07:54:28 +0000

I thoroughly recommend the talks given by Stefan and Suresh. They have a great rapport, and shed a fascinating light on his time growing up in Spitalfields. And his father comes over as a very kind and wise man despite not being able to read or write.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 23 May 2019 10:33:41 +0000

What a lovely man your dad was.

By: Laura Williamson

Laura Williamson — Wed, 22 May 2019 21:30:52 +0000

Wonderful that the Whitechapel library, which was a haven of learning for Isaac Rosenberg, was fulfilling the same purpose for Suresh so many decades later. Great and at times taken for granted places, our libraries, I truly loved the one in Smethwick that I grew up with. It was a place of magic for me and reading this account took me back there.

Thanks to Suresh and the GA, great piece.

By: Upkar Virdee

Upkar Virdee — Wed, 22 May 2019 18:21:44 +0000

A truly astounding piece of writing, simple and so true as it brought back memories of mine when I use to spend my weekends at my brother- in laws flat off brick lane in Montague Street in the mid sixties. Its probably changed now like so many things, but am glad of its character, likewise even I got beaten by a gang of skinheads in 1965 in the East End of Canning Town for being a Singh with a turban.

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Wed, 22 May 2019 16:20:38 +0000

Suresh’s ramble around those streets and places in the East End that he holds dear has made me think that I should do the same, recording memories good and not so good……before it all changes forever.
I found the same sense of peace in Hackney Central Library, now a cinema I believe.
It seemed like another world to me and I spent hours amid the silence there revising for exams.
It’s good to see the lovingly made tank top is still looking great!

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:30:08 +0000

As a former library worker it is so good to know first hand from Suresh how much he personally appreciated them and the role that they played in his development. Libraries have helped so many people who otherwise could not have afforded the high price of books or never had the space and peace and quiet at home to sit and study.

By: Adele Lester

Adele Lester — Wed, 22 May 2019 12:49:43 +0000

Wonderfully reminiscent of growing up in the area, from the Jewish perspective – different from Suresh’s, but oh so similar!

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Wed, 22 May 2019 11:24:54 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, what lovely reflections Suresh shared of his boyhood haunts in Spitalfields. I particularly liked:

“The library was a whole world. It taught me to read quietly. It exposed me to books that I might never have found. My mum and dad could not read or write. We had no books at home. … It was a sanctuary from the mayhem outside, a kind of university of the ghetto.”

Like so many great thinkers who were self-taught in the public libraries of the western world…