Category: Society
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Buy gold burger for just $100 and enjoy Chinese silk lanterns at CNE
TORONTO: Over-the-top food creations are a major attraction at the Canadian National Exhibition Place – The Ex – this summer. “Every year, we have this little competition that goes on between the various chefs and concessions on site,” says its CEO Virginia Ludy. “It never ceases to amaze me what they come up with.” This…
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Indian-origin Rock & Roll Hall of Fame bassist Prakash John heats up Toronto
TORONTO: There are only a handful of Indian-origin musicians who have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHF) and Toronto-based Prakash John is one of them. Even though the information is not available anywhere on Google, it is said that Prakash John is the first virtuoso of Indian origin to be…
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Hindi-Pakistani bhai-bhai as Humera Channa and Richa Sharma sing together at TD Mosaic
MISSISSAUGA: Pakistan’s acclaimed singer Humera Channa and Bollywood playback singer Richa Sharma shared the stage at the TD Mosaic festival at Mississauga Celebration Square (MCS) on Aug 4. The headliner for Saturday night, Bollywood’s award-winning diva Richa Sharma, first regaled the crowd by stepping down from the stage and going into the audience and singing…
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India comes to Toronto through the lens of iconic Raghubir Singh
TORONTO: Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and early influence on the work of prolific Indian-born photographer Raghubir Singh, said, “A photograph could fix eternity in an instant”. Raghubir Singh’s posthumous exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Modernism of the Ganges fits this perfectly. The exhibition is a walk down memory lane with ordinary street scenes of…