Category: Culture
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Kitchener Blues Festival brings blend of music bonanza
This past weekend, the Kitchener Blues Festival (KBF) showed what it is really made of by kicking off the extravaganza with Rik Emmett (formerly of the band ‘Triumph’) and Resolution 9. The crowd went crazy as they took the stage and broke into the classic hit `Lay It On The Line.’ And they kept laying…
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Hindi-Pakistani bhai-bhai as Humera Channa and Richa Sharma sing together at TD Mosaic
MISSISSAUGA: Pakistan’s acclaimed singer Humera Channa and Bollywood playback singer Richa Sharma shared the stage at the TD Mosaic festival at Mississauga Celebration Square (MCS) on Aug 4. The headliner for Saturday night, Bollywood’s award-winning diva Richa Sharma, first regaled the crowd by stepping down from the stage and going into the audience and singing…
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Hindu leader tells Walmart to withdraw Ganesha Toe Ring
Nevada-based American Hindu leader and priest Rajan Zed has urged Walmart to immediately withdraw `Ganesh Toe Ring’ from sale from its website, calling it highly inappropriate. Urging Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and Walmart Board Chairman Gregory B. Penner to withdraw `Ganesh Toe Ring’ from sale and offer a formal apology to Hindus, Zed said Lord…
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India comes to Toronto through the lens of iconic Raghubir Singh
TORONTO: Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and early influence on the work of prolific Indian-born photographer Raghubir Singh, said, “A photograph could fix eternity in an instant”. Raghubir Singh’s posthumous exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Modernism of the Ganges fits this perfectly. The exhibition is a walk down memory lane with ordinary street scenes of…