Desi Today Magazine
Our ethnic children and youth are not receiving culturally responsive services, as culturally responsive services would include involving family members like parents and grandparents – something ‘mainstream’ services for the most part don’t do because they don’t have the time or the language capacity. The same government funding model for multicultural health and emotional health services has been in place …
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NIMMO
A short story by Suresh Kurl The following story is based on certain historical facts, cultural realities and my own imagination. The year was 1939. I had no karmic credits to bank on and no destiny to guide me yet. I was not even born. But the upheaval and chaos of the Second World War were already defining my life. …
Read More »Why It’s Obvious The Rob Ford Story Doesn’t Matter
Rob Ford’s personal proclivities and preferences are deserving of, at most, a minor back-page editorial comment from a community paper in Toronto. After all, wasn’t it Pierre Trudeau over four decades ago who proclaimed that “the Government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation”? By extension, the electorate has no business, and frankly is unaffected by, the personal …
Read More »Mannu Sandhu has arrived
From pageants to philanthropic efforts, Mannu Sandhu has come a long way QUICK BIO Mannu Sandhu was raised in Surrey, BC. To her family, the small town of Surrey must have felt millions of miles away from their native India, where Mannu was raised in Palampur. Chasing the Canadian dream of opportunity, Mannu’s family left India when she was …
Read More »GIRLS AND GANG
During recent years, concern has grown and continues to increase about the prevalence of gang activity in Canada, however; the ways in which girls and young women are portrayed tends to be overlooked, simplified and distorted. Eventually, girls’ involvement in gangs may receive their share of attention but those girls are often only highlighted as violent, out of control perpetrators …
Read More »Scopolamine : Columbia’s Zombie Drug
Andrea Fernandez was found by police wandering topless along the median strip of a busy highway in Bogota, Colombia. She was badly beaten and alone. The last thing Fernandez recalled was holding her newborn baby on a city bus, three days earlier. Fernandez was one of the hundreds of victims of the home-grown drug called scopolamine, which has been embraced …
Read More »the Importance of teaching Mother Language
It was the dawn of 1971. My wife and I were going home from Vatranasi to Haridwar. When the train stopped at the Lucknow railway station, I got off the train for tea to wet our beaks. An ex-professor of mine, who was also on board the same train, spotted me and called and asked, “When did you arrive? How …
Read More »Bullying of LGBT Youth: It Gets Better
Around the world, members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community face great discrimination, ranging from being called derogatory names and being ostracized by their friends, family and community to being killed for their sexual orientation. Several surveys conducted in the United States and Canada indicated that sexual minority youth are much more likely to be bullied than …
Read More »Muzaffarnagar riots: atrocities against women
Violence against women during Muzaffarnagar riots Clashes between the Hindu and Muslim communities of the Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India have claimed 50 lives and injured 93. 41,000 have been displaced in what is described as the ‘worst violence in Uttar Pradesh’ in recent years; for the first time in 20 years, the army has been deployed in the Indian …
Read More »Humble the Poet: The Voice of Youth & Social Activism
“I want to create something that lives past me, and it’s no different than people wanting to have kids. You have kids because you want to work on a project and watch it bloom and blossom. My creative work is my kids; it’s my legacy.” – Humble the Poet QUICK BIO It’s been a little over five years since Kanwer …
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