Gurpreet Singh: Why we need an Arundhati Roy Barbie doll
Gurpreet Singh
May 26, 2024
A B.C. writer makes the case for Roy being added to a Mattel club that already includes Maya Angelou and Rosa Parks.
Tag: India
Bollywood is playing a large supporting role in India’s elections
Staff
May 9, 2024
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, a biopic on an ardent advocate of a purely Hindu nation, was released a few weeks before this year’s elections.
B.C. author Gurpreet Singh’s new children’s book applies lesson of Martin Niemöller to plight of minorities in India
Charlie Smith
March 19, 2024
Niemöller, a German pastor, said of the Nazis: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.”
B.C. author Nadeem Parmar shines light in latest Punjabi novel on Modi’s designs to create a Hindu nation
Gurpreet Singh
December 5, 2023
Parmar, a seasoned writer, tells the story through the eyes of a Punjabi woman who can foresee what’s happening under Modi’s watch.
Why some Indians want to change the country’s name to “Bharat”
Staff
October 3, 2023
When India invited G20 delegates to dinner with “the President of Bharat”, it may have looked like a postcolonial course correction.
Gurpreet Singh: Hardeep Singh Nijjar will always be our hero; let India’s apologists call him whatever
Gurpreet Singh
July 9, 2023
Before his murder, Nijjar expressed support the oppressed in India and Canada, including First Nations kids who died in residential schools.
Forgive us Father, your nation has gone to Godse’s children
Gurpreet Singh
June 18, 2023
B.C. writer Gurpreet Singh has written an open letter to Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1948.
Hindu nationalists are using digital propaganda to delegitimize India’s wrestler protests
Staff
June 5, 2023
Artificial intelligence was applied to a photo of wrestlers in a police vehicle to make it look like they were smiling.
On World Book Day, we should remember that Bhagat Singh was a voracious reader as well as an anti-colonial revolutionary
Gurpreet Singh
April 22, 2023
B.C. writer Gurpreet Singh makes the case that the public would benefit from seeing more images of the Indian activist reading a book.
Kulpreet Singh thread explains how “South Asian” term erases identities while offering benefit of escaping Indian hegemony
Charlie Smith
April 20, 2023
The mental-health advocate tweeted that he was engaging in “tongue-in-cheek banter” as he raised key questions about South Asian terminology.
Gurpreet Singh: Why we need an Arundhati Roy Barbie doll
Gurpreet Singh
May 26, 2024
Bollywood is playing a large supporting role in India’s elections
Staff
May 9, 2024
B.C. author Gurpreet Singh’s new children’s book applies lesson of Martin Niemöller to plight of minorities in India
Charlie Smith
March 19, 2024
B.C. author Nadeem Parmar shines light in latest Punjabi novel on Modi’s designs to create a Hindu nation
Gurpreet Singh
December 5, 2023
Why some Indians want to change the country’s name to “Bharat”
Staff
October 3, 2023
Gurpreet Singh: Hardeep Singh Nijjar will always be our hero; let India’s apologists call him whatever
Gurpreet Singh
July 9, 2023
Forgive us Father, your nation has gone to Godse’s children
Gurpreet Singh
June 18, 2023
On World Book Day, we should remember that Bhagat Singh was a voracious reader as well as an anti-colonial revolutionary
Gurpreet Singh
April 22, 2023
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.