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Issue I Vol I,
October 15, 2005 |
Editorial
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South Asia Post
It is pertinent to ask as to why
a new website. In this information age when we are bombarded
from all sides with evocative or obtuse information and
opinions then why add another name. Friends, after spending
years in the field of journalism, somewhere in the inner
recesses of the mind, a thought lingered and always troubled
most of us who are involved in launching this web opinion
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Newsbag
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New Baby Gender Test Kit, a Weapon for
Infanticide: Worry Indo Canadians
Gurpreet Singh reports from Vancouver
The new
baby gender test kit, which has hit the market, brings worry to
the Indo Canadian community. The blood sample kit can be bought
via Internet from the Illinois based Pregnancy store across the
border.
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Comments
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A Tale of a
Headmistress, a Professor and Truant Students at the Congress
Conclave
Gobind Thukral
The city of Chandigarh was all jazzed up. All roads
from the airport to the venues were decorated as hundreds of
security men deployed around the clock left nothing to chance
and did not allow a single discordant demonstration or
deputation to disturb the peace which the commanding
leaders needed to reflect on the problems of the country and
what the ruling Congress could do.
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Law and
Justice
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Violence Back Home
Joginder
Singh Toor
Violence against women
is possibly the most ubiquitous and pervasive problem. It is a
problem sans borders. It transcends class and caste barriers. It
is a universal curse on women and their families that knows no
boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. It has grown to an
epidemic scale around the world, devastating lives, fracturing
communities and prohibiting advancement of society.
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Defence
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“Is one Life Time Enough
to get Justice?”
Victims of false Samba Spy
Scandal await Justice.
Maj. Gen. Satinder Kapoor (Retd.),
We in India have
a constant fear of having traitors in our midst and find it very easy
to succumb to the idea of there being a spy in every corner of every
organization, on the pay roll of ISI of Pakistan. All stories of
spying or alleged spying are lapped up by the public as has also
recently happened in the case of Mr. Gohar Ayub Khan alleging that a
Brigadier of the Indian Army had been paid a sum of Rs.20, 000/- to
sell the Indian war plans in 1965.
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Analysis
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Politics of Hate
Not the Finest Hour
Pakistan, India and the Earthquake
Gobind Thukral
Even in
the face of colossal calamity that devoured thousands and
thousands of innocent lives and devastated a generation besides
flattening villages and towns, particularly in Pakistan,
politics has prevailed over humanity. The government under Gen.
Pervez Musharraf that had taken some hard steps to establish
peace in the region, refused to accept the India offer to send
help across the Line of Control [LoC] in Pakistan held Kashmir.
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"Bhalru’s
deportation excessive punishment but not discriminatory"
Gurpreet Singh
One of the two Punjabi boys facing deportation
for causing the death of Irene Thorpe in a street racing five
years ago has now been sent back to his home country bringing
both dismay and relief to the society.
The society remained divided on the question of
deporting Bahadur Singh Bhalru who was forced to leave Canada on
Wednesday.
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Features
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Matters of Faith
Reflections on the Fundamental Creed
of the Sikh Faith
Dr. Jaspal Singh
“Guru Granth Sahib” the compilation of Sikh
scriptures that include the holy verses of the Sikh Gurus and
several other saints and sages of the medieval India, begins
with the “Fundamental Creed” of the Sikh faith that appears in
the form of “Mul Mantra”. This basic tenet characterizes the
Supreme Being that has created phenomenal universe along with
all kinds of organic and inorganic forms and categories.
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Life Style
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Designer Weddings come at a Price
Jyotika J. Thukral
“Men marry
because they are bored. Women marry because they are curious.
Both are disappointed” – Somerset Maugham. Yet millions of
individuals tie the knot the year around. As they say shaadi ka
ladoo jo khay so pachtaye aur jo na khaye who bhi pachtaye.
Whether the couple lived happily ever after or not, one thing is
certain that weddings in India have always been stylish.
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Art & Films
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Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
It isn’t an ordinary film. Based on the massacre
of innocent Sikhs in India during 1984, Amu is a movie
that non-Sikhs must watch. Amu is one of a few Indian
films that successfully entered the Vancouver International Film
Festival.
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Environment
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The dance of Death
Ecological Crisis
in Punjab
Umendra Dutt
Once
famous for its virile people and diverse cultures - the Malwa of
Punjab, the land considered to be sweeter than honey, has now
turned into a land of poison. Indiscriminate use and abuse of
pesticides has devastated the entire ecosystem and environmental
equilibrium of Punjab.
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Profile
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PROFILE: Shamsher Singh Dullo
- Can he Deliver?
Gobind Thukral
Crowds chase the new Punjab Congress President,
Shamsher Singh Dullo anywhere he goes and more so at the
Congress Bhawan. Middle level Congress leaders, party workers
and not so influential public men in white [not necessarily in
khaddar], who normally are chased away from the caravans of
chief minister and ministers, throng to him.
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