“I’m not academically gifted, and my dad would have a go at me about it sometimes,” he says. He bought himself a textbook and taught himself physics, eventually scoring straight As.Īmandip found it tough being continually compared with his accomplished sibling.
The request was rejected, but Jagdip refused to be deterred. Just to outdo himself, he made a request to the college to be allowed to take four subjects instead of the maximum three for his exams. “He was very much the golden boy, and everyone loved him,” Amandip says.Īfter leaving secondary school with top grades, Jagdip went on to tertiary college, which was at the time a prerequisite for entrance into university. Jagdip decided that the best way to beat discrimination was to prove that he was better than his peers.
This early experience of prejudice profoundly changed his brother Jagdip, who was five and a half years older than him. Having spent some of his childhood in East Africa, where his father was a civil servant, Amandip and his family keenly felt the racist microaggressions that were common across the United Kingdom at the time. London, United Kingdom – In the early 1980s when Amandip Sidhu was growing up in Harrow, a suburb on the fringe of northwest London, his South Asian family was one of only a handful of non-white households in the area. Visit Befrienders Worldwide for more information about support services. If you or a loved one is experiencing suicidal thoughts, help and support are available. Warning: This story contains details about suicide that some readers may find disturbing.
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