This continues to be a unique summer. Different. Devoid of the usual activities, for the most part. Not enough barbecues with family and friends. No quick trips to the Beer store or the LCBO. No jaunts and hikes out on the neighbouring trails, parks and conservation areas. Golf, anyone? Eyeing passers-by with trepidation on the …
Independent and Free
Congratulations to the people of Pakistan and India on the occasion of their Independence-day celebrations; August 14 for Pakistan and August 15 for India. It was in August 1947 that a truncated India attained freedom, after some 200 years of British rule. The partition of India and Pakistan resulted in the death of nearly two …
Toppling statues
In 1859, Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities opened with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was …
Fair and Lovely
An Indian mystic, Osho opined that discrimination starts the moment a child is born. “Boy or a girl?”, “Dark or Fair?” are typically the very first queries new parents field. We too, have experienced this first as parents and later, as grandparents. As people of Indian origin, this bias towards a fair complexion is engrained …
