Category: Features
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Kuldip Deepak – the father of Punjabi radio in Canada
By Gurmukh Singh MISSISSAUGA: Kuldip Deepak is a familiar radio voice among Indo-Canadians. He is the man who runs North America’s longest-running Punjabi programme called Punjab Di Goonj. “We have completed 37 years and we could possibly be the longest-running Punjabi radio programme outside of India,’’ says the man with the booming voice. In fact,…
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Parkash Singh Badal was not studious, says college-mate Shamsher Singh Babra
By Gurmukh Singh At the age of 90, Washington-based Dr Shamsher Singh Babra is the grandpapa of the three-million-strong Indian community in the US. Indeed, when young Babra landed in Washington DC in September 1955, there were not even one hundred Indians in the US, barring the old Punjabi settlement of Yuba City in California.…