Category: Society
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Vikas Kohli scores again with Bollywood Monster Mashup
Vikas Kohli, along with his multicultural team, has created the amazing show Bollywood Monster Mashup under the banner of MonstrARTity Creative Community MISSISSAUGA: The summer’s here and everyone is in festival mood. One of the long-standing free annual South Asian festivals in the Peel region is Bollywood Monster Mashup that had its maiden year in…
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How Montreal’s Subhash Khanna made his mark in business
Montreal-based Subhash Khanna is a ground-breaking Indo-Canadian in Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec. Born at Shamchurasi in Hoshiarpur district where his family had moved from Jhang in Pakistan during the Partition, he came as a student to Montreal in 1976 to study accounting and supported himself by working part-time for a clothing importer. “Since there…
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Canada should accept Afghan Sikhs, Hindus as refugees, says CIF
TORONTO: Condemning the killing of 19 Sikhs by a suicide bomber in Jalalabad in Afghanistan on July 1, the Canada India Foundation (CIF) has urged Ottawa to accept Sikh and Hindu minority communities from Afghanistan and Pakistan as refugees into Canada. In a statement, CIF chairman Ajit Someshwar said, “This dastardly act is yet another…
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As 120,000 Indian students enter Canada in 2018, CIF to debate higher education on July 5-6
The Canada India Foundation’s Global Indian Award Gala on July 6 to honour child prodigy Sparsh Shah TORONTO: The Canada India Foundation (CIF) will be organizing a Higher Education Forum on July 5 and 6 at the Pearson Convention Centre in Brampton. Announcing this at a media conference held in Toronto Wednesday June 27, Mr Ajit…