Indo-Canadian film triumphs at Hot Docs
Indo-Canadian Director Nisha Pahuja’s ‘The World Before Her’ won the best Canadian feature prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival
“Picasso’s Picassos” opens at AGO
TORONTO For the first time since 1964, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée Picasso, Paris exhibit began its much anticipated stint at the Art Gallery of Ontario(AGO) earlier this week. Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso offers a rare perspective on the life and work of the iconic Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It features works from [...]
Beyond Language: Dr. Satyapal Anand
With more than a dozen poetry books to his credit, Dr. Satyapal Anand abnegated ghazal from Urdu and rehabilitated nazm in the blank verse. In an exclusive interview with Can-India News, Dr. Anand reveals his journey to evolving as a revolutionary in the contemporary Urdu literature. Dr. Satyapal Anand may have trans-created 240 of his [...]
The Guru of Sambhar
He conquered the palates of ‘butter chicken’ eating South Asians with Guru Lakshmi’s hot vegetarian sambhar (a South-Indian tamarind lentil stew) and his signature dosas (fermented crepe made from rice batter). Kumar Nala, Owner and Head Chef of Guru Lakshmi in an interview with Can-India News spill the beans on what has made everyone rave [...]
Pandit Jasraj to perform in Toronto
TORONTO For the first time in Canada, a unique concert featuring ‘Three Generations of the Mewati Gharana’ will be held in Toronto on May 5, Pandit Jasraj Institute of Music announced this week. Padma Vibhushan Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj along with Pandita Tripti Mukherjee, who has also had the great opportunity of performing at [...]
What we do each day matters: Sherry Ramrattan Smith
The concept of ‘considerate curriculum’ may be new for many but for award-winning workshop facilitator Sherry Ramrattan Smith, it has been her way of life. Coalescing her love for writing and career as an educator and curriculum writer, Ramrattan Smith, in collaboration with her sons, adroitly craft Baby Girl: Welcome To Your Family, the exquisitely-conceived [...]
‘Best South Asian Wedding Show’ hits the runway
MISSISSAUGA The ‘Best South Asian Wedding Show’ organized by Best Entertainments held at the Capitol Banquet Centre last weekend was a ‘must visit’ for all those planning wedding. Makeup artists, photographers and videographers, backdrops, henna and live entertainment/DJ’s stationed at interactive booths offered unique and glamorous wedding shopping experience. With beautiful exhibitor displays, ‘Best [...]
