Canadians Should Ignore Europe’s Misgivings About Multiculturalism
By Janet Keeping While Canada’s massive diversity creates problems when it comes to integration and the protection of our liberal-democratic values, there is little we have to learn from Europe on...
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It could be a new profession, the ‘basker-in-reflected-glory’. And India seems to be churning them out by the dozen. Now, the baskers are curious creatures. They tend to hibernate during the winter of...
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Kumbh Is A True Spectacle
Kumbh By Mohit Dubey For reasons other than preaching salvation and guiding the teeming millions on faith and spirituality, the saffron-robed seers camping in the sprawling Kumbh mela premises are...
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BJP Under A New Leader
Rajnath Singh By Mohit Dubey Does Rajnath Singh, a physics lecturer-turned-politician now in his second innings as the BJP president, carry the magical potion for his party ahead of the Lok Sabha...
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Gandhi’s Value System
Mahatma Gandhi By Firoz Bakht Ahmed Gandhi, the Mahatma, was truly a citizen of the world though he worked for the freedom of the Indian nation from foreign yoke. Though a Brahmin by birth, humanity...
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Idea Of India Under Threat
SRK, Kamal Haasan By Minu Jain Shah Rukh Khan one day and Kamal Haasan the next. Is it mere coincidence or a sign of an increasingly knee-jerk, reactionary India that two of its most loved film icons...
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Afzal Guru: Ends Of Justice And Of Politics
Afzal Guru Hung By Amulya Ganguli The government took a longer time to hang Afzal Guru than it did in Ajmal Kasab’s case but, ultimately, the ends of justice have been met in both instances. So, have...
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Management Lessons From Kumbh
Management Lessons From Kumbh By Santhosh Babu There are management lessons for leaders in large gatherings and events. Look at an event like the Kumbh Mela in India and explore what makes it a...
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Indian Cinema Is Still A Cottage Industry
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra By Radhika Bhirani The Indian film industry, pegged at over $3 billion, produces over 1,000 movies annually. But acclaimed filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra describes it as a...
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Vernacular Literature Is Alive And Well
Jaipur Literature Festival By Sourabh Gupta Literature in Indian languages is vibrant, thriving and more interlinked than is evident, say literary figures. Renowned writers, poets and playwrights, from...
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Markers of Cultural Maturity …
Markers of Cultural Maturity … By Asma Mahmood Recently I was invited to a concert by an Indian singer who was visiting Canada. Usually I avoid all such banquet hall events but I have special...
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Ensuring The Future Of Canadian Businesses
Ensuring The Future Of Canadian Businesses by Marc Garneau, Federal Liberal Leadership Candidate Canada needs to be well positioned for the future. As it stands, we are not. Canada escaped the worst of...
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Working Together To Save Ecology
Working Together To Save Ecology By Maria Syed The 2005 earthquake and three continuous years of bad floods caused widespread devastation in Pakistan. The natural calamities are not Pakistan-specific...
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Women Playing Bolder Roles In India
Women Playing Bolder Roles In India By Madhusree Chatterjee The rules are changing for women when it comes to the complexities, profundities and experimentation with life and art. The movement to free...
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Battle Of Begums Dominate Bangladesh Elections
Battle Of Begums Dominate Bangladesh Elections By Ranjana Narayan Amid the Shahbag protests and the clashes, political tensions have palpably increased in Bangladesh with elections due later this year....
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Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned And Cleansed
Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned And Cleansed By Ishtiaq Ahmed The partition of the Punjab in mid-August 1947 took place as part of a negotiated settlement brokered by the British between the Indian...
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Global Cartels Target Indian Pharma
Global Cartels Target Indian Pharma By Francis Kokutse As Indian pharmaceutical companies face charges of selling counterfeit drugs in Africa, India has dubbed the allegations as “calculated attempts”...
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Stay On Course With Budget 2013
Jim Flaherty by Gregory Thomas Stephen Harper won his majority in 2011 – on his fourth attempt – because of certain promises he made. He promised to control spending. He promised to balance the federal...
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Muslims Must Stop Playing Loathsome Politics With Vande Mataram
Muslims Must Stop Playing Loathsome Politics With Vande Mataram By Firoz Bakht Ahmed As a law abiding Muslim of India, my head hung deep down in shame as I had read the news of Shafique-ur-Rehman...
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Sharif Must Use ‘Third Chance’ To Break Cycle Of Revenge
Nawaz Sharif By Ravi M. Khanna The fledgling democratic process in Pakistan has churned out a leader, who now has the rare opportunity to chart a new positive and peaceful course, not only for his own...
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