Archive

Advertise in southasiapost.org

 

Editorial

Justice grinds too Little and too Late Murder of Human Right Activist Jaswant Singh Khalra IT is an ugly truth that Indian criminal justice system grinds little and if at all it grinds, it produces small. Indian courts have piled up over 30 million cases, a good portion of them being criminal cases. The pendency rate may be one of the highest among the civilised nations. The old adage, justice delayed is justice denied neither worries the public authority nor the courts except making some pious noises here and then.

Newsbag

Canada: One Fractured Parliament goes, Another Threatens to take Birth Canadians this Christmas will celebrate their holidays with a gift of elections. Federal politicians that wrapped up Parliament on November 28, hitting a long campaign to end on January 23 have promised a golden age to the electorate. Yet as many observers contemplated, a fractured polity may just produce another fractured Parliament.

Indo Canadian boy makes History in the BC Civic Election Gurpreet Singh  writes from Vancouver AN Indo Canadian boy has made a history in the BC Civic election after being elected as a councilor for Surrey City hall. Tom Gill, who works for Coast Foundation – a non-profit agency became the first Indo Canadian to be elected as a Surrey councilor during the civic election held in different municipalities of BC on November 19.

Analysis

Elite Facilitate the Skewed Sex Ratio in India Jyotika J. Thukral THERE is confusion in the house of God.  Some religions preached "God resides where women are revered" and where host of Hindu goddesses; Lakshmi, Durga and Saraswati are all worshipped. But the Atharvaveda declared ages back, “The birth of a daughter, grant it elsewhere, here grant a son”.

Power from the Barrel of the Gun Gobind Thukral ON November 15, several hundred Naxalites and their supporters attacked the Jehanabad high security prison, freed some 400 of their supporters including their leader Kanu and took away along some Ranbir Sena, high caste opponents of the Naxals. They lost two of their cadres while three jail officials fell to their bullets.

Law and Justice

Foreign Exchange Management Rights Joginder Singh Toor, Advocate UNDER the globalization regime, fast movement of goods and services to and from countries, foreign direct investment, rapid changes in the inter-se trade and investment related rules and regulation, compelled the respective governments to reconsider their respective international business laws.

Comment

The Trickle down Effect: Fill the Coffers of the Rich Professor Vinod Anand THE inter-linkages between economic growth and income distribution are crucial to assess the impact of policies on people.  Macro-economic measures like growth rate and the micro-economic measures like poverty levels, inequality ratios, and unemployment rates help us measure the impact.

Defence

Army Officers, Play Golf and be Happy Maj. Gen. [retired] Satinder Kapoor ARMY officers playing golf are considered snobs or nabobs and the game itself a bastion of the elite and part of snobbishness. It is not a part of the rigorous bodily activity required for physical fit officers and jawans.

Features

SGPC, Falstaff as the King Gobind Thukral IN the annals of the Sikh gurdwaras’ history, Akali Dal President, Parkash Singh Badal would be a modern day Misldar, a feudalist. He not only presides over the affairs of the Akali politics, but has under his grip the cash rich Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee.

Art & Films

Award Winning Indo Canadian Film Director sad about Women abuse in her Community Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver THE director of Getting married, a film that bagged the Best Canadian Short Film award is sad about women abuse in the Indo Canadian community. The award was announced at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival. In Getting married, Rani Sandhu, an India born Canadian film director has portrayed the profile of a girl, who is being compelled by her parents to marry as soon as she becomes an adult.

Profile

Gurcharn Rampuri: A Poet of Romance and Revolution Dr.  Jaspal Singh IT was about half a century ago when Gurcharan Rampuri's first collection of poems Kankan di Khushbo appeared. Those were the heady days of freedom, romance and revolution. India had just achieved Independence after a prolonged freedom struggle against British Imperialism.

Book Review

Air India Tragedy: Loss of Faith in Canadian Justice System Kim Bolan is a gusty reporter with the influential daily, Vancouver Sun since 1984 covering minority, women’s education and social services. She won Courage in Journalism Award in 1999 for her continuing coverage of the Air-India story while facing death threats. She has courageously followed the story behind the crash of the Air India plane since 1985.

Letters

GOOD work and congratulations to the entire South Asia Post team for yet another superb issue. Article by Maj. Gen. Satinder Kapoor (Retd), “Is one Life Time Enough to get Justice?” is really hurting and makes you wonder if it is still true to say “Justice Prevails at the end.”

1790 Albion Road,
Suite  202, Toronto,
Ontario. Canada M9V 4J8
Tel. 416-748-7775
Fax: 416-748-5553
e-mail: ystoor@yahoo.com

Yadvinder Singh Toor
LL.B, LL.M., LL.M. [London School of Economics]

Fields of practice  
Corporate
Trade marks
Civil Litigation
International Business Laws
& Transactions