Swargvaas: Bhai Ravi Inder Singh Jee

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Bhai Sahib was a student of Khalsa School(Vancouver, then Surrey) till Grade 10. We sat in the same classroom for 4 years. Played hockey with him… Faught with him… Hit him… and got hit… Seen him both laugh and cry. Learnt tabla with him from Bhai Gian Singh. Sat on the stage with him during many morning assemblies and extended kirtans. Did many class projects with him. Taught him to cheat the system during typing tests (that’s why I still type with 2 fingers) in Bhai Suminder Singh’s computer class. Both of us were filmed by Ankheela Punajb TV(WSO run) in 1993, the mini documenty on Khalsa School was later shown on national TV(Vision).

Because of a bad driver he recently lost his life on the streets of Toronto Here are a few pictures I took from the 1998 yearbook.

*note: I only went to school with him in grade 10 for about 11 days then dropped out… but was in his class in grades 5,6,7 & 9.
That year (1997-98) Khalsa School Administration tried to experiment their religion department’s tried tested and true A-B-C group system to the academic subjects. Kmarpal Singh Dhaliwal, Ravi Inder Singh and I were in group B English. We three were devastated, especially Ravi Inder singh when I reminded him that he had called me a DP earlier on in the day, and he didnt say a word the whole class. The next period Kmarpal Singh and I were put in the group B math class. When Mr rehmtula announced this Ravi Inder Singh got up and burst out into a bout of Bhangra and a loud ‘BURRRRRRRRRRRA!’ YES! he said at least im not in both of the B classes. I was really happy to see him that excited and proudly went into the science lab where Mr. Bhatia greeted Kamarpal Singh I with 3 Mathpower 10 textbooks in hand. That week was the last time I ever saw him. Last Friday I asked his uncle Bhai Satwant Singh about his whereabouts; he informed me that the family had moved to Brampton, Ontario. Yesterday Bhai Balwant Singh at work told me that Satwant Singh has gone to Toronto because 'Raja's kid had died.'

His brother was a year younger than us. And his father ‘Raja’ Singh (Balraj Singh I think) did sewa anytime khalsa school called on him.

****Once again: Don’t drink and drive, Don’t speed while driving, & Don’t try to be a THUG on the road…. If you really want to be a baeeman behind the wheel, get yourself Midtown Madness for computer or X box … getting into a wreck behind a CRT never hurt anyone, lives… on the other hand cannot be replaced so easily.

By the way before you start to make assumptions; he was a passenger not the driver.

**I’ll update this post later**
Stuff from the Khalsa School Annual: 1998 edition is posted below: