Too many South Asian heritage events dilutes its impact

By Pradip Rodrigues There are a lot of people out there who believe that there are way too many celebrations ...

The texting generation: A text book case for social disaster

  By Pradip Rodrigues Recently I went to a get-together with friends I hadn’t seen in years and as I ...

Is it time we told our parents how to dress right?

  By Pradip Rodrigues Last summer a White neighbor called me frantically to ask if I happened to know  a ...

South Asians are importing corruption

  By Pradip Rodrigues It wasn’t so long ago that we South Asians prided ourselves on being good, family-oriented, tax-paying ...

The backlash against immigration is coming soon

By Pradip Rodrigues The recent poll which revealed 63 per cent of Canadians favor restrictions on family reunification should be ...

Casteism floundering in India but flourishing in Canada

By Pradip Rodrigues When Devender (name changed) and his wife, both highly educated professionals emigrated to Canada 20 years ago, ...

Great minds and big ideas show great trade promise

By Pradip Rodrigues It was Eleanor Roosevelt who famously said that great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events and ...

The Tale of Two Cities

  By Pradip Rodrigues Back in the 60s, Bombay or fittingly Mumbai as it called now, was a cosmopolitan and ...

South Asians hit a moralistic high road

By Pradip Rodrigues Ever so often I hear Canadians of South Asian descent make disparaging remarks about goras, or ‘those ...

Student suicide shakes students at Mississauga Secondary

By Pradip Rodrigues MISSISSAUGA Students and staff at Mississauga Secondary School were left grappling with yet another tragedy, this time ...

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