sikhpride

Tejinder Singh is the son of a devout Sikh couple Dr. Gurinder Pal Singh and Pushpinder Kaur of San Hose in USA. He was only three years old when his parents shifted to USA. When he joined the school, there being no other boy with Sikh identity, he was teased and harassed by his peers. He had to explain to his teachers and peers what his long hair meant. Sometimes people understood, sometimes they didn’t. Although very trying at times, his Sikh identity kept him focused and away from the many evils that stalk our youth. His parents had taught him that wherever he goes, he will be representing the whole Sikh community, that all Sikhs will be judged by whatever he will do. Thus, broughtup with Sikh values, he grew as a nice Sikh gentleman. He became the first Sikh boy with long hair to attend and graduate from Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, CA. They had to change their facial hair policy of 150 years to accommodate the growing beard and mustache on Tejinder’s teen face. They prepared him well to receive a full ride scholarship into Berkeley’s debate team. He had a highly competitive spirit which helped him excel as a debater in high school and college. He and his debate partner Dan Shalmon won the Copeland Award for being the best team in the nation. When Tejinder was studying for LSAT, his father asked him what score he hopes to get on the test. Tejinder quoted a random number. His father seized the opportunity and inquired, “Why not 100%?” Tejinder looked at him as if it was a challenge he was willing to accept. He studied and received full score in LSAT. Tejinder received admission in many prestigious law schools, including full scholarships to a few. However, he joined Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, he met his future boss, who was a Supreme Court attorney. Now Tejinder works with him in Washington DC in his law firm that works on Supreme Court cases. On April 28th 2014, Tejinder made his first oral argument in front of the nine Supreme Court Justices. It was an incredible feeling to watch a turbaned lawyer so handsome, so confident and so amazingly powerful in his speech. History was made- Tejinder Singh is the first Sikh and turbaned lawyer to have argued a case in the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Thus, by creating such a history, he became a role model for all those, who aspire to achieve heights in legal profession. This role model possesses a number of Gursikh qualities which he has inherited from his parents, and which he conveys to others through his Gursikh way of living. He along with his wife and a son lives at Harvard in USA.