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  • Tsunami generated losses in the Nicobar Islands…

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    According to reports, Nicobar Island and Campbell Bay have suffered infrastructural damages with the water having entered the landing strip at Nicobar Island. An estimated 10000 people are dead, missing or seriously injured. The fate of approximately 2,000 families of… Read More ›

  • Freedom to spend

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    At this time of year, the streets are lined with Christmas decorations, coloured lights and illuminated fir trees. The atmosphere projected is one of a welcoming air of joy and warmth. People are rushing about from shop-to-shop, with a cluster… Read More ›

  • Turning off hate?

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    This week, it has now been a year since I started writing a weekly column for the Sikh Times. I’d like to thank the team for their continuing support and commitment to this publication. Over the last year I would… Read More ›

  • ID Cards : Need Vs Want

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    I recently saw the ‘strap line’ (advertising phraseology for catchy marketing line / pitch) ‘Need Vs Want’. The hoarding also boldly declared that there was a ‘thin line’ between each word. If we go back to basics, we can observe… Read More ›

  • Is a Band-Aid enough ?

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    Ethiopia 1984 In the spring of 1984, the ugly face of famine unveiled itself. Almost seven million people were threatened by severe food shortages. Stark photographs of undernourished children ripped through the consciousness of the civilized world. The whole world… Read More ›