A Nation of Newcomers Gobind Thukral Travel anywhere in
Canada, particularly in large cities like Toronto, Vancouver or Ottawa,
the face and colour has changed dramatically over the past one decade.
Any trip on Toronto's subway or a visit to a school anywhere in the
Greater Toronto Area or Vancouver confirms this. More Canada Cornered At UN Climate Meeting In
Bali Khushwant Toor writes from Toronto Representatives
from about 190 countries were in Bali, Indonesia, from December 3 to 14
struggling to frame new international climate change agreement and
trying to lay down a roadmap for a future international agreement on
global action to fight climate change.
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ANALYSIS
Reprieve at last Ishtiaq Ahmed Once again, ample proof
is in hand to suspect that the contemporary world of Islam is in deep
moral and intellectual turmoil. A British school teacher, Gillian
Gibbons, who arrived only recently in Sudan in August to teach in
primary school, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison for allegedly
blasphemy against religion. More
Russian Voters Give a Strong Anti-West Mandate Sawraj Singh
THE recent Parliamentary election results in Russia showed that the
Russian voters gave a very strong anti-West mandate. America and the Western
European countries are very frustrated with the results and are proving to be
sore losers. They are complaining that the elections were not fair. More
Where are the toilets, please?
CITY dwellers who have had neither a past nor a present link with the
rural India would wonder that majority of the 70 per cent people who
live in over 5.5 lakh villages have no toilets to answer the call of
nature. Roughly 55 crore Indian citizens have no access even to most
primitive kind of toilets. More
E D I T O R I A L
Turmoil in South Asia
AS leadership grows bankrupt, depraved and
shortsighted by the day in South Asian countries, the peoples’ suffering
finds no end. Several political and economic models are being
experimented in each country. Democracy and poverty elevation are the
catch words. These sculpt that totally ignore structural formations and
basic causation, end up increasing poverty, making suffering intolerable
and spawning violence. More
FOCUS
Hail Musharraf, hail his democracy! Pakistan’s President
Pervez Musharraf, now in civil clothes has indeed enriched the lexicon
of democracy. Its variety and variants are indeed numerous, but the
Musharraf brand is not only a monstrous variety, it can be twisted in
any manner the boss wishes. More
Deepening Fiscal Crisis Gobind Thukral
IT seems the woes of the Akali BJP government have an unending cycle. If
the chief minister, Mr Prakash Singh Badal succeeds in ironing out the
differences with his ally, the BJP, he faces an uphill task of pulling the state
out of fiscal mess. Fiscal crisis that stares the government from the day one
remains intimidating. More
All the glitter and the gold Ishtiaq
Ahmed Notwithstanding
the grave political crisis created by the imposition of a state of
emergency (a partial martial law as some describe it) by President
Pervez Musharraf on November 3, 2007 and the subsequent protests and
demonstrations of lawyers and political activists an economic boom
currently pervades Pakistan. I can understand that President Musharraf
and his economic wizards who wrought this economic boom. More
MEDIA
Liberty and the Monster State-1 Chaitanya Kalbag “What came across
strongly in my conversations with Justice V.M. Tarkunde was the
fragility of individual liberty in a modern state. Those thoughts hold
as true today as they did a quarter-century ago. In fact, globalisation
has meant, as I shall discuss later on, a corresponding constriction of
individual freedom. Cutting-edge technology has sliced through the
veneer of civilised conduct and exposed our rights, our space, our
freedom of movement, our privacy, to the indifference and depredations
of the Monster State.” More
LITERATURE
Sacramento’s Sacrosanct Punjabi Literary Circus of California
Dr Jaspal Singh
THE annual conference of Punjabi Sahit Sabha of California last
September attracted a good number of writers and their readers. By the U.S.
standards, this three hundred strong gathering was really impressive. The
participants in the conference were very enthusiastic in their response to the
literary presentations made in the temple hall. More
Sikhs, Swamis, Students, and Spies Amrik Singh writes from Sacramento,
California Harold
A Gould’s book, Sikhs, Swamis, Students, And Spies: The India Lobby in
the United States 1900-1946 is a landmark study of pioneers’ quest for
freedom, love and justice both in lands of their birth and the lands
they bowed to make green. Their contribution, according to Gould, will
remain exceptional in the annals of history. More
‘HUN’ Heralds Professionalism in Punjabi Literary Journalism Swaran Chandan Although there have been
a series of serious endeavours over the years to improve literary merit of
Punjabi journalism starting with Gurbakhsh Singh’s Preetlari, Mohan Singh’s
Panj Darya and many others in the field until today. More
Day of Reckoning Raises Penetrating Questions Sawraj Singh Patrick
J. Buchanan’s book, Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology and Greed are Tearing
America Apart, has just arrived in the bookstores. This book has already caught
the attention of the media. The book raises many important and penetrating
questions. I was very surprised to see the book because the analysis of the
crisis faced by America.
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spent many years in the company of and at the court of Bhai Udai Singh and Bhai
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COMMENT
An Eventful Journey- From India to Canada
FEW days ago, my grandfather shared with me a story; it was about Punjab
Police’s inhospitable attitude and the graceful service etiquettes of the
Canadian police. At that time I was oblivious of the fact that I would be having
the first hand experience of both at the ends of the spectrum. More
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from all continents are on constant move. Most in search of new pastures
and but also sometimes as refugee in search of safety as some are forced
to migrate, leave their home and hearth or marketed as slaves. More
LAW
& JUSTICE
New legal parameters Joginder
Singh Toor ON December 10, the Indian Supreme Court did some introspection to clear a bit
of fog to bring a balance of power among the three wings; the legislature, the
judiciary and the executive as enshrined in the constitution. It found its own
activism was hurting that delicate balance. It cautioned the judges, ‘If
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MANY more people were killed and detained in the violent government
crackdown on monks and other peaceful protesters in September 2007 than
the Burmese government has admitted. According to Human Rights Watch
since the crackdown, the military regime has brought to bear the full
force of its authoritarian apparatus to intimidate all opposition,
hunting down protest leaders in night raids and defrocking monks. The
140-page report, “Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in
Burma,” is based on more than 100 interviews with eyewitnesses in Burma
and Thailand. It is the most complete account of the August and
September events to date.
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Sri Lanka: UN Monitoring Needed as Situation
Worsens
THE United Nations Human Rights Council should press the Sri Lankan
government to agree to the immediate establishment of a UN human rights
field operation with a strong monitoring mandate, Human Rights Watch and
Amnesty International said in an open letter. As the top UN human rights
body prepares to meet in Geneva from December 10 to 14, the human rights
situation in Sri Lanka is rapidly deteriorating. In the last two weeks
of November alone, more than 50 civilians have been killed in Sri Lanka.
On November 28, two bombings in Colombo killed more than 20 civilians.
Other civilians were killed by aerial bombardment, shelling and claymore
mine attacks in northern Sri Lanka.
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ON December 10, the Indian Supreme Court did some introspection to clear a bit
of fog to bring a balance of power among the three wings; the legislature, the
judiciary and the executive as enshrined in the constitution. It found its own
activism was hurting that delicate balance. It cautioned the judges, ‘If
legislature, executive don’t work, it’s for people to correct it via vote’. 
