A Silent Voice Speaks
(By Trishna Singh)
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Trishna Singh OBE was born in Glasgow in the 1950s, a first generation Scottish Bhat Sikh. She left school at the age of 13, with no qualifications. She had an arranged marriage, aged 21, and moved to Edinburgh to live with her husband.
Although Trishna’s marriage was a marriage of equals, she was still expected to adhere to the social and cultural restrictions placed upon her by the wider Scottish Bhat Sikh community, in opposition to the teachings of the Sikh religion, stating man and woman are equal.
In 1989 she founded Leith Sikh Community Group, now Sikh Sanjog. Its aim was to provide support for women in the Sikh community who had been settling in Edinburgh since the 1950s. Trishna remains a director
of Sikh Sanjog.
A Silent Voice Speaks is her story.”
