Category: Features
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Malala prefers live-in relationship, Pakistan angry
Malala marriage views: “I still don’t understand why people have to get married. If you want to have a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, why can’t it just be a partnership?” Agencies ISLAMABAD: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s remarks about marriage have created a storm in feudal Pakistan. The…
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Spare Sir John Macdonald’s statues, says federal minister after Kamloops discovery
Indigenous services minister Marc Miller speaks after the Sir John Macdonald statue removed by Charlottetown city council The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: With the Charlottetown city council voting to remove a statue of first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald amid rising anger over the discovery of remains of 215 native kids in Kamloops on May…
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How the book `City of Joy’ sparked my interest in India
During British rule, Kolkata was considered the world’s most fashionable city after London TORONTO: When I was a university student, I read Dominique Lapierre’s novel, City of Joy. Set in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), the story is about the challenging lives of a Polish priest, a young American physician and a local rickshaw puller. Although the story…
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John Macdonald, Lord Macaulay demeaned native peoples
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…