Category: Features
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Amrita Pritam – the wailing voice of millions of women
Prof Sehdev Kumar remembers the late Amrita Pritam on her 93rd birth anniversary which falls on August 31
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How his lady pen pal brought Ashok Bhargava from India to Canada
During his struggle days, Indo-Canadian author Ashok Bhargava says he felt many times that he made the biggest mistake of his life by immigrating to Canada News East West VANCOUVER: Ashok Bhargava landed in Winnipeg more than 45 years ago as an immigrant from Jalandhar in India. In Winnipeg, he met his future wife who…
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The dreamer within the dream
ਜੋਤਿ ਕੀ ਜਾਤਿ ਜਾਤਿ ਕੀ ਜੋਤੀ ॥ Joṯ kī jāṯ jāṯ kī joṯī. The creation is born of the Light, and the Light is in the creation. (SGGSJ Ang 325) In Sikhism, reality exists as two emanations – the unmanifest or Nirguna and the manifest Sarguna. As ONE and yet ALL. The Creator – Akal Purakh – exists as unified ONEness,…
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I want my heritage to live on, says Bob Dhillon about business school named after him
The CEO of Mainstreet Equity says it’s time to pay back to society after donating millions to the university Calgary-based real estate mogul Bob Dhillon, whose company Mainstreet Equity Corporation (MEQ) is the Canadian leader in the mid-segment market, has donated $10 million to the local University of Lethbridge. The university has responded by honouring him…