Category: Culture
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Canada subjected 150,000 Native children to cultural genocide
News East West TORONTO: Denigrating the Indian education system and favouring the `superior’ English education system for colonial India, Lord Macaulay in his `Minutes of Indian Education’ in 1835 said, “…English is better worth knowing than Sanskrit or Arabic; that the natives are desirous to be taught English, and are not desirous to be taught…
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Indian VIP culture: How shameless politicians and bureaucrats misuse subordinates
Indian VIP culture, in which shameless politicians and bureaucrats misuse their subordinates to perform duties which are not allowed under service rules, is a legacy of the British Raj News East West NEW DELHI: In yet another disgraceful incident of India’s VIP culture in which VIPs exploit their subordinates, a West Bengal minister was caught…
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Bollywood-style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ comes to Toronto
TORONTO: This month, Tarragon Theatre explores the connections between Shakespeare and Bollywood through its whimsical retelling of the classic comedy, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. As the play’s director Richard Rose describes, both are, more often than not, about “people suffering love” and so form the perfect marriage on the Toronto stage. With support from consulting…
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Transgenders in Pakistan abducted, gangraped and killed
News East West Armed men in Swabi district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province abducted and gang-raped a transgender on Monday after killing two others in a pre-dawn incident, reports Dawn. The group of transgenders, who perform at birthday and wedding parties in Pakistan, was returning home after performing a music and dance show at a…