Talk:Atma Singh (politician)

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 * His International Politics lecturer was Professor Michael Clarke, currently of King's College, London University, who is well-known expert on terrorism and defence matters. London. .He has qualification for teaching in further education colleges. He also has a trainer's certificate.


 * He has met many famous people from his humble yet proud background: HRH Prince of Wales on several occasions including the premiere of the ‘Mystic India’ film produced by BAPS Swaminarayan Mission; the 1960s poet Adrian Mitchell, who sent him signed copies of his poems; Bishop Colin Winters, Bishop of Namibia, when he was exiled to London, at whose residence he often stayed in east London; President Bill Clinton; Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee; Michael Foot former Leader of the Labour Party; Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of the NCT Government of Delhi several times in London and Delhi; Vayalar Ravi Cabinet Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs several times; nominated Lord Swraj Paul to board of the London Development Agency as well as the 2012 Bid Committee board; Sir Gulam Noon to the Transport for London Board.


 * He has met many pop stars including Bhangra Stars such as Raghav, Radio 1 DJs Bobby Friction and Nihal, UK protest stars such as Billy Bragg and film actors and actresses including Venessa Redgrave and Kris Kristofferson. He has met Ravi Shankar, his wife and his daughter Anoukhsa in London.


 * Atma Singh likes football (soccer) supporting Chelsea FC, American literature of the 1920s and 1930s, European literature of the 1950s and 1960s and Bollywood films of the 1970s and 1980s. He likes country and folk music including 'world music'. Atma Singh likes different languages: he has been brought up and educated in English; speaks Punjabi as a mother tongue in an English context; can read and speak French; can understand Hindi and Urdu; has a smattering of Gujarati and Bengali and has a smattering of conversational Italian. He has written the 100th anniversary brochure of the Huddersfield Trade Council in 1985.


 * He was previously involved with the extremist Trotskyist group with a magazine known as 'Socialist Action' of the Socialist League and previously as International Marxist Group British Section of the Fourth International (USFI) between 1980-2000. He renounced these extremist, Trotskyist and Marxist politics. Nowadays, he views these ideologies as 'closed systems' that are contrary to democracy and political pluralism.


 * He is a political moderniser. He also back economic and social modernisation. He supports globalisation and free enterprise. At the same time, he supports a democratic and multi-cultural approach to globalisation. He believes that the tackling of global poverty is an essential part of this process. He supports the role of rural communities in the modern world in sustaining an ecological balance. He is an ardent political pluralist championing the side of democracy against any form of totalitarianism and closed political systems. He backs individual choice on social issues. He supports the 60s 'revolution', which brought out modern thinking on individual freedom and the sovereignty of the individual over their own bodies incorporating rights of women, personal sexual freedom through contraception, rights of people with disabilities, rights of lesbian and gays, rights of children against child abuse, etc.

Well done. Maybe with his 'humble yet proud' background the subject could commission someone even more humble than himself to write his CV on Wikipedia. Amazing that people get away with this sort of thing, are they paid?--Dbdb (talk) 22:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I question the notability of this person. He only seems notable because he made some allegations about Ken Livingstone and Socialist Action, although from my own personal knowledge of some matters I would say that these allegations are probably true, this can all be dealt with in the articles on Ken and SA. PatGallacher (talk) 10:20, 28 June 2012 (UTC)