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Meet Manjot and Careena, for whom a big wedding was a way of expressing love and gratitude towards their family and friends When a couple decides to get married, the first and most difficult question that pops up is whether to have a big or a small wedding. Some of the common factors that influence every couple’s decision are — …

Pardip Narwal, a wedding planner, talks about some latest trends in Indian weddings and bizarre demands of the customers on their big day By Surbhi Gogia Weddings have always been a grand affair for South Asians. Back home they are super fun. Food and chatter all around, excitement in the air, a hundred different delicacies to gorge on. It’s like …

Sukh Dhaliwal is the Liberal Member of Parliament for Surrey-Newton. He has served the Surrey community before when he was MP for Newton-North Delta from 2006 to 2011. After earning his Bachelor of Science (Surveying Engineering) from the University of Calgary, Sukh started his own business Dhaliwal & Associates Land Surveying Inc. As a former member of the Surrey Board …

By Jyotsna Singh As the clock struck 8 P.M. on the evening of November 8, an address by Prime Minister of India, Narendra Damodardas Modi took the country by surprise. Almost 86% of cash in the economy had been declared unfit for transaction from the next day. The address declared that after 12 midnight, i.e. within four hours, currency denomination …

The country went into total chaos after India’s Prime Minister announced demonetization By Surbhi Gogia I landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport on November 9.  It was the day Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dropped the economic bombshell on the country when everybody was eagerly waiting for the US election results. Beginning midnight November 9, the 500 and 1000 …

By Harman S. Pandher On Saturday, October 29th, 2016, Punjabi language and Punjabi literature were celebrated at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology.  The event was the 3rd annual Dhahan Prize Awards Gala for Punjabi Literature. This literary prize was founded by prominent Vancouver businessman Barjinder Singh Dhahan, popularly known as Barj.  The prize money is $25,000 to …

Lonely Planet has named Canada the top country to visit in 2017. The travel guide giant says the Great White North’s friendly people and “dynamic cities” make it a prime destination for prospective tourists. Lonely Planet also says Canada has been “bolstered” with a “wave of positivity” from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  Europe is thing of the past, if you are a …

Time never stays still. It keeps moving adding, subtracting and introducing new personalities born to change humanity. As you already know that in June 1957 Sir Diefenbaker, the architect of the Canadian Bill of Rights appeared on the political horizon of Canada and then, within a year of my arrival in Canada in 1971, Hon. Pierre Elliott Trudeau adopted a …

My name is Alex Sangha and I am the Founder of Sher Vancouver. Sher Vancouver is a social, cultural, and support group for LGBTQ South Asians and Friends. Everyone is welcome in Sher. I very rarely ask for help but this is an exceptional case. I am writing directly to you to appeal for your support as one of our very …

Be part of the projects that aim to protect BC’s South Asian especially Sikh community history The province of British Columbia is the most ethnically diverse province in Canada and welcomes nearly 40,000 new immigrants as permanent residents every year. But the new wave of immigrants and young generation is rarely aware of the history and struggle their ancestors went …