A Biography of the Life of
Dr. Amarjit Singh
" When the religious leaders advocated that all Sikhs and Hindus in Kashmir needed to evacuate, well no one wasted time. Parents rushed home to sleeping children that were shook in into horror. There was no time for anything except a parcel of food...."
Dedication
Dedicated to Billa Veer Ji
Thank you my brother, for the love and inspiration you showered me with throughout my life.Your strength has been humbling.
I could never understand why your life was filled with so much suffering but the light you managed to find through the torment has always been an inspiration to me. My youth blinded me to your rapid decline. In my mind's eye, if only I were not so young when the Spina Bifida began deteriorating your body, then perhaps...
I am sorry that I left for my future in the United States without you. You should have been with me until the very end. Dialysis should have been available to you. All of your love and encouragement catapulted me into this medical life and still, I was unable to help extend yours. I am confident that your suffering had the potential to be mitigated in some way. Noone truly saw your suffering through the light and bravery you offered the world. Years into practicing medicine, when my realization came that you were the motivation for my life, I still was unable to save you as you were greeted with an untimely death.
This book is for you brother in the hopes that someone else may be helped with the hand I could never offer you. I hope that sufferers and their families will find motivation to get help from true health professionals. I never got to say good-bye, a chip that I have carried with me. I wish that I could have fulfilled my duty to you. I will always miss your love and guidance. Rest well, Billa Veer Ji.
Synopsis
Walking with Billa Veerji is a biography of the life of Dr. Amarjit Singh, an Indian American immigrant who walked through The First Kashmir War as a child, forced from his home with his severely disabled brother and a family in fear for their lives. Religious differences and politics caused neighbors and friends to become enemies- soldiers in a bloody war. His father, born into a rich orchard family, was forced to work from the bottom until he could reclaim his legacy. Rather than follow the expected path of inheritance, Amarjit fights to go to medical school and ends up in America with a dream of returning to India in order to improve the vulturous medical system and lack of education that affected his brother's life.
Billa Veer Ji, as Amarjit called him, was born with the most severe form of Spina Bifida.
Religious war pushes Dr. Singh back in America, stumbling through international concierge medicine until he finds himself building his dream again- a charity hospital in India with state-of-the-art tools, systems, and protocols alongside Kirtilal Mehta, a diamond merchant and famous businessman. After the death of his partner, he is forced again from his Indian dream.
Returning to America, Dr. Singh strives to reclaim his passion with the sudden purchase of a hospital that parachutes him into legal battles over inheritance contracts with a con man and then a hammer of destruction with the state of New York tearing down hospitals in the Berger Commission.
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Dr. Amarjit Singh is a proud Indian American immigrant from Kashmir. With the love and support of his wife Jas, and two sons, Dr. Jasjit Singh(Rick) and Sandip, he is the owner and president of the Brunswick Hospital in Amityville, NY. As an endocrinologist with a dream of betterment in India's medical systems, Dr. Singh was instrumental in building the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai. He helped to develop the Nargis Dutt Foundation, in honor of his friend's battle with cancer. Dr. Singh continues to contribute to the betterment of medicine in India as a philanthropist.
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