By Lachman Balani
TORONTO: I was jumping with joy as I watched Norah Jones and Anoushka receive the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award for their late father Ravi Shankar who died in December.
Afzal Guru’s wife seeks permission from Tihar to perform last rites, Mehbooba Mufti wants his body handed over to his family
News East-West NEW DELHI: Afzal Guru’s wife Tabassum, in a letter to Tihar Jail director general Vimla Mehra, has sought permission to perform last rites. Guru, executed on Saturday for his role in the December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, was buried in the jail complex. “We are writing you to please permit the […]
Toronto’s BAPS Temple to last 1,000 years!
Toronto’s BAPS Swaminaarayan temple here is the only one of its kind in Canada to boast a hand-crafted design. It is expected to last 1,000 years
Akshay: `Special Chabbis has helped me reinvent myself’
News East-West
LONDON: Akshay Kumar feels that his new film Special Chabbis has given him a fresh breath as an actor.
Nostalgia: Punjabi and Hindi signboard at Lahore Railway Station just before the Partition of India
LAHORE: There Punjabi and Hindi signboards – pictured just before the Partition – were to soon become history in Lahore
The only turbaned Sikh cop in Canada’s cowboy city get Queen’s jubilee medal
From Calgary Sun
CALGARY: Det. Jasbir Kainth is the only Sikh officer with Calgary city police who wears a turban.
Combined with his long beard, he is hardly the picture of a conventional-looking cop.
And the 38-year-old uses it to his advantage.
“I pull out my badge and I say ‘I’m not the cleaner,’ ” he says, explaining a way he likes to tap into his visible differences while doing interviews.
“I don’t look like the typical police officer … It’s an ice breaker, a way to connect.”
The only turbaned Sikh cop in cowboy city gets Queen’s jubilee medal
From Calgary Sun CALGARY: Det. Jasbir Kainth is the only Sikh officer with Calgary city police who wears a turban. Combined with his long beard, he is hardly the picture of a conventional-looking cop. And the 38-year-old uses it to his advantage. “I pull out my badge and I say ‘I’m not the cleaner,’ ” […]
