For 50 years, Rob Pugal kept a secret, submerged somewhere deep inside him, he says – somewhere in his soul.
Back in the 1960s in the West End of Newcastle, where an Asian immigrant community had grown up, there was a white, British man who’d taken an unusual interest in some of the area’s families. Rob’s home was among those where he became a regular visitor, impressing his hosts by learning about their culture, religion and traditions, and even a few sentences of Punjabi.
