Category: Culture
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Punjabi actress Harveen Sandhu shines in Pygmalion at Shaw Festival
By Prof Sehdev Kumar TORONTO: In a multicultural and multiethnic world, such as exists in Canada, what should Juliet look like? Or Cinderella? Or Eliza Doolittle in Bernard Shaw’s much celebrated play, Pygmalion?
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Amrita Sher-Gil’s self-portrait fetches £1.7 million in London auction
News East West NEW DELHI: India’s most famous modernist painter Amrita Sher-Gil’s self-portrait painted in 1931 has fetched £1.7 million in auction by Sotheby’s in London. The record London auction comes just eight months after another untitled self-portrait by Sher-Gil went for the record price of £2.9 million – highest for any Indian woman artist…
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How Canada’s governor-general delayed his oath-taking in 2010 for sake of Dr Abdul Kalam, says Lucky Lakshmanan
By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam was so much respected in Canada that the current Governor-General David Johnston had delayed his oath-taking in 2010 so that he could personally confer an honorary doctorate on the former Indian President. “David Johnston was appointed the Governor General of Canada when he was the president of…
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Why this German woman has fallen in love with India
SOURCE: Humans of India I am from Germany and it was my first visit to India when I got a chance to work with an NGO in Nashik. When I arrived I was shocked about what I saw. I couldn’t believe the amount of animals that were living on the streets and the poor people…