How a 100-year-old marathon runner inspired the first Sikh-centered children’s book

About 15 years ago, back when he was a graduate student at Harvard University, Simran Jeet Singh was watching TV in his dorm room and got his first look at Fauja Singh.
“I was watching an Adidas ad featuring David Beckham, Muhammad Ali and this elderly man, who was running, with a long white beard, wearing a turban,” said Singh, 36, now a columnist for Religion News Service, host of the “Spirited” podcast and visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York Ci