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  • Vijay Thomas steers his Toronto start-up Tangentia into top league

    Vijay Thomas steers his Toronto start-up Tangentia into top league

    Goa-born techie wants his company to become global player in AI and e-commerce By our reporter TORONTO: A techie who has been honoured by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce with this year’s Technology Achievement Award, Vijay Thomas is a driven man. He talks in short quick sentences and walks briskly as if a thousand ideas…

  • Sindhis in Canada and their unique Gurmandir Temple in Toronto

    Sindhis in Canada and their unique Gurmandir Temple in Toronto

    There are over 11,000 Sindhi families settled across Canada, says Sindhi Cultural Association of Toronto president Jai Chandwani TORONTO: The Sindhis are one of the most enterprising Indo-Canadian communities today. Among the earlier Sindhi settlers in Canada were Mahtanis, Hiras, Shahanis and several others. Some of them had successful businesses back in Sindh (before and after…

  • How Brampton’s Sandeep Gupta creates multimillion-dollar textile business

    How Brampton’s Sandeep Gupta creates multimillion-dollar textile business

    He does business worth $100 million annually in Latin and South America By Gurmukh Singh BRAMPTON: Brampton businessman Sandeep Gupta is a quiet self-effacing man. But behind his quiet exterior burns a fiery desire to succeed, succeed…and succeed. Indeed, this Indian-born multimillionaire textile entrepreneur is a workaholic who wishes there were 48 hours in a…

  • Bikram Choudhury: Yoga guru who became sexual predator

    Bikram Choudhury: Yoga guru who became sexual predator

    TORONTO: In the times of #metoo, the American documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, which premiered at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival here, brilliantly captures the rise and fall of the famous Indian yoga guru Bikram Choudhury after a series of sexual allegations against him. The yoga guru, who came to the US in the…