Category: Features
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Neopolitan Pizza owner Mukund Purohit gets Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
Toronto-based Mukund Purohit has been awarded for promoting India-Canadian business relationship The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: When Mukund Purohit landed in Canada in 2000, he struggled like most new immigrants and survived by doing odd jobs. Sixteen years later, he has just been honoured by his birth country with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award for his…
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How Dr Lucky Lakshmanan and friends brought Sringeri to Toronto
The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: The Sringeri temple in Toronto is the only second such religious institution operating outside of India. The first Sringeri temple in the West opened at Stroudsburg in Pennsylvania in the US in early 1990s. Renowned Toronto scientist Dr V.I. `Lucky’ Lakshmanan, who is the current president of the Sringeri Vidya Bharati Foundation…
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How Canada’s first Sringeri temple came to Toronto
Sringeri Toronto temple was thrown open to devotees on June 20, 2010 The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: June 20, 2010, was a historic day in the history of Canada’s Hindu community when the country’s first Sringeri temple opened in Toronto. On that day, thousands of devotees from Canada and the US thronged the 30,000 sq-ft temple…
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Kulwant Singh artist: Canada’s Singh of portraits
The Brampton-based Kulwant Singh artist has developed his own unique style of creating real life-like portraits The Canadian Bazaar Brampton-based Kulwant Singh is one of the few artists in the Indo-Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area. After his first solo exhibition Portraits of Sikhs last year, he done his second exhibition Celebrating Sikh Heritage…