Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
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29th Apr 2024 | Updated at 09:30am 29th Apr 2024
In Defence of the Faith - My Hate Speech
- 04 Mar 2015
The irresponsibility in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist is both negligent and dangerous. ITV have done this by putting young Hindu adolescents in harm’s way. The idea that a TV channel would inflame any part of the world, particularly Britain, for selling TV viewers should be criminal offence – wait, it is – incitement to hatred.
Not Just Former Former Foreign Secretary - British interests compromised by former government officials based on documents supplied by ex-British intelligence
- 24 Feb 2015
Former Ministers, and especially Prime Ministers should never ever be allowed to work for foreign agents. Pure and simple. Otherwise they damage British interests.
One to One: Anima Gupta Aggarwal
- 04 Oct 2023
Anima Gupta Aggarwal is a philanthropist, entrepreneur and active leader in multiple charities and NGOs. She has twenty-five years of experience working across the corporate and not-for-profit sectors in the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands...
One to One: Shalini Bhargava
- 27 Sep 2023
Shalini Bhargava was born in India and was raised and educated in Delhi. She completed her BA(Hons) in English Literature from University of Delhi and soon after graduating was married to come to the U.K. In the UK, Shalini as a single parent...
One to One: Vijay Sanas
- 21 Sep 2023
One to One
- 13 Sep 2023
One to One
- 06 Sep 2023
One to One
- 31 Aug 2023
One to One
- 24 Aug 2023
One to One
- 16 Aug 2023
Indian-origin lady helms important UK Screen Body
- 19 Aug 2019
Seetha Kumar is the CEO of ScreenSkills, based in central London but operating UK-wide.
How Meera Lee Patel’s Book “Made Out of Stars” Can Heal US
- 21 Nov 2018
It is often hard for we Asians to articulate it when we suffer from depression or low self-esteem. Who would think that a book could help us heal?
In fond remembrance of a Vaishnav Khodidasbhai Dhamecha
- 04 Mar 2020
Dear Readers,My absence in the previous three editions of Asian Voice did not go unnoticed... I am glad. My family and I went for three pilgrimages to India but more on it later. I landed in the UK last week. I still find myself processing the...
Book Review: A British Subject
At any point over the last twenty years my friend Dolar Popat could have released a book worthy of our collective attention. With a moving foreword by David Cameron, Dolar uses this book to outline his love and affection for the country he is...
Power is the ability to make change
- 01 Sep 2022
Life is precious
- 29 Apr 2020
Let’s be positive
- 07 Apr 2020
As I See It
- 01 Apr 2020
The Housing Crisis this Christmas: 300,000 People Need a Home
- 28 Nov 2018
At a time when family, community and a roaring fire are the comforts of the season, many urgently need shelter and the basic necessities that can be taken for granted by those of us preparing for the festive period. The housing crisis remains...
Executor made personally liable for £340,000 tax bill
- 26 Oct 2018
In the recent case of Glyne T Harris as Personal Representative of Helena Norma McDonald (deceased) v HRMC (2018), Mr Harris, was found liable for a tax bill of £341,279.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers’ Conflict with Judiciary
- 16 Dec 2020
Decades before Jagan Mohan Reddy, the present Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (AP) wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India making wild allegations against the High Court judges, Damodaram Sanjivayya, the second Chief Minister of Andhra...
Emperor Krishnadevaraya and World Heritage Hampi
- 08 Dec 2020
Recently the news flashed in The Hindu of Chennai attracted global attention since it is of international as well as historical importance: “Tourists can no longer get too close to the iconic stone chariot in front of the Vijaya Vittala Temple...
Heritage and History
- 04 Nov 2020
Introspection: Do you feel the pressure of success?
- 24 Apr 2024
In sports, winning a title may be challenging, but retaining it is even more daunting. A marathoner who clinches a victory often struggles more in defending their title during the next race. This is true for boxing and other individual sports, as well as in team sports.
Introspection: What would you like to achieve in the next 30 days?
- 10 Apr 2024
Let's say we are dealing with a very short timeline, maybe of 30 days. What would you like to achieve in the next 30 days? If you have to put up your goal post for next one month, where will it be? What would it look like? What satisfaction will you derive from it?
The bold decisions taken by the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government in India, vis a vis the State of Jammu and Kashmir, were long overdue and are likely to have far reaching consequences for the whole subcontinent in general...
“So you have got detained in Calcutta and that too in a quarter which is a veritable shambles and a notorious den of gangsters and hooligans.
- 06 Aug 2019
Ruth Tanner is the Head of Humanitarian Campaigns & Advocacy for Oxfam GB. She works to influence international responses to conflicts and disasters, raising funds for relief work and pressing for swifter aid and ending the root injustices....
It was a pleasant encounter with Madhavsinh Solanki, former Chief Minister of Gujarat who was also the External Affairs Minister of India for a brief period,...
Recently “selected” Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been branded with multiple personalities. For some he is a maverick, whereas others consider him to be the man of all seasons for his opportunist politics. These labels only get worse. Opportunism...
- 31 Jul 2019
“India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.” - Swami VivekanandaI recently attended a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Vivekananda Human Centre at Logan Hall,...
- 31 Jul 2019
Dear Readers,
Elizabeth Baptiste was born in London to parents from the Caribbean Islands of Grenada and St Lucia. She grew up in London and the Caribbean and studied Social Policy and HRM at both Middlesex and Westminster University. She has worked in...
- 30 Jul 2019
A recent Asian Voice article on the vandalisation of the Shree Ram Mandir in Walsall highlighted the growing number of attacks against faith institutions,...
