A midnight's child of poor rural India, Ujjal Dosanjh emigrated to the
United Kingdom in 1964 at the age of eighteen, and spent nearly four
years making crayons, car parts and shunting trains while he attended
night school and learned English by listening to BBC Radio. He moved to
Canada in 1968, to the west coast, where he pulled lumber in a sawmill
for a few years, eventually earning a B.A from Simon Fraser University
in 1973 and then his law degree from the University of British Columbia
three years later. He practiced law for many years, and was a social
justice advocate who fought for the rights of farm and domestic workers.
After many years as a Member of the Legislative Assembly he became
Attorney General and then Premier of British Columbia, the first person
of Indian descent to hold these offices anywhere in the country.
This is a deeply personal and thoughtful memoir of Dosanjh's journey
from his beloved India to the upper echelons of Canadian politics, a
story that is both wise and compelling, about a man passionate about
social justice and democratic process who continues to rail against
injustice and corruption wherever it is happening in the world.