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 …
Vaisakhi and Ashtami
“Vaisakhi” will be celebrated world wide on April 13/14. Celebrated by Punjabis (across either side of the India-Pakistan border) it is a harvest-linked festival to give thanks for a good crop and pray for abundance in the year to come. It also assumed a special significance for the Sikhs from the 17th century onwards. Sikhism started …
Stories for all ages
Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan is an expert on international relations and in her doctoral dissertation, had covered the British Raj in India. This is a period in Indian history that I am particularly interested in. So, when she recently came to present Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” at the Massey College Book Club, it was a God-sent …
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