Category: Ontario
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Roger Sinha’s Sunya: A sum of many parts
By Supriya Nayak TORONTO: `Sunya (zero or nothing in Sanskrit) refers to the emptiness from which enlightenment is possible; the fundamental paradox of being, language and movement.’ This is the inspiration behind the performance of Sunya, which brings together movement, sound and visuals in a collaboration between Roger Sinha, one of Canada’s most important choreographers, and Kiya Tabassian, artistic…
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Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie shakes leg at Bollywood Monster Mashup
News East West TORONTO: The Bollywood Monster Mashup, Canada’s biggest South Asian festival, drew record crowds of thousands of people for two days of dance, music, yoga, fun, food, shopping and laser blasts at the Celebration Square in Mississauga here. Mississauga, which is the sixth largest city in Canada and neighbours Toronto, is home to…
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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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Honour killing of Indo-Canadian girl Jassi Sidhu in Punjab: 3 contract killers to serve life term
News East West NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has upheld the life term given to two contract killers of Indo-Canadian girl Jassi (Jaswinder) Sidhu who was murdered near Sangrur in Punjab in June 2000 for marrying a lower-caste man against her family’s wishes. Jassi was 24 at the time of her murder, which turned out…