[citation needed] He is a former research scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University.
[2] Singh is the author of the novel Chef (2008 Véhicule Press/2010 Bloomsbury),[3] and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories.
He contributed an essay to the anthology AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (2008).
It tells the story of a young chemistry student whose mentor was murdered in the course of the anti-Sikh riots in 1984.
[4] His personal essay about 1984 in India was published in The New York Times as "Thomas Bernhard in New Delhi".