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• CBC: Journalist upset about link between Indian Rakhi festival and anti-domestic violence campaign

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on August 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Last evening, I was a guest on CBC’s On the Coast show to talk about my stand against City of Surrey associating the warm festival of rakhi with domestic violence. The now-recorded interview is on CBC website and is about… Read More ›

• Guest blog: Not White and won a gold medal? Either you did drugs or were made in a lab

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on August 1, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Chinese swimming sensation Ye Shiwen’s name has finally being cleared off suspicions of doping. But what about the smear campaign against Ms. Ye? My today’s guest blogger is my friend Winnie Hwo, who is Climate Change and Clean Energy Campaigner… Read More ›

• Guest blog: Why can’t people accept that Asians CAN swim?

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on July 31, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Today, I have a guest blogger, Ben Lu, who talks about media coverage around Chinese swimmer, Ye Shiwen’s phenomenal swims. Ben Lu is a cultural entrepreneur, loves technology, is into content making and marketing. Apart from English, he also speaks… Read More ›

• The City of Surrey: “Banding Together Against Domestic Violence” or against Indian culture?

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on July 29, 2012 • ( 22 )

  

  Rakhi, also known as Raksha bandhan or Rakhri, is an Indian festival that celebrates the bond between a sister and her brother. The ceremony is fairly simple: sisters tie rakhi, a sacred thread, on their brothers’ wrists, and pray for… Read More ›

• South-Asian Muslims exist, but only for fellow South Asians. Why?

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on July 27, 2012 • ( 4 )

  If one were to award a medal for cutting path to reach “Visible Minorities”, it has to be hands down, the business world. It has been speaking Punjabi, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin and other languages in their print, radio and television… Read More ›

• Migrant Tales

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on July 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  An email from Finland touched me today. The editor of “Migrant Tales” blog asked for permission to repost my blog entry, “If you are not White, you are not-Canadian-enough“. I hadn’t heard of Migrant Tales before this. I looked at… Read More ›

• “Who do you think you are?”

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on July 20, 2012 • ( 1 )

  That was the title under which three young Canadian authors discussed issues of identity, location and language at the recently concluded Indian Summer Festival in Vancouver. The three, Anosh Irani, David Chariandy and Gurjinder Basran – from different backgrounds discussed… Read More ›

• Move back to my country? How do you move back to Canada when you live in Canada?

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on June 30, 2012 • ( 9 )

  My last blog post, If you are not White, you are not-Canadian-enough generated a lot of response: blog comments, Facebook messages, tweets, personal emails, phone calls, repost on The Georgia Straight’s website, and a radio show discussion on RedFM with… Read More ›

• If you are not White, you are not-Canadian-enough

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on June 23, 2012 • ( 54 )

  Are you Canadian? I am not talking legality on right to vote and accessing free healthcare, but the sense of being, being Canadian. Let me walk you through a mini questionnaire to help you understand where I am going with… Read More ›

• I have a womb, breasts and brains. Now give me the freedom to make my choices

  By Anu Sandhu Bhamra on May 21, 2012 • ( 30 )

  Epidural or natural? Natural or elective? Breast or formula? Co-sleeping or crib? Lose the pounds before the stitches heal or let the kangaroo pouch be? Stay-at-home, go-back-to-work, or negotiate part-time week? Six-inch heels or I-love-my-back-shoes? With French feminist Elisabeth Badinter… Read More ›