12th December 2019 was a devastating blow to the Labour Party. It shook the very foundations of the party led by Jeremy Corbyn who championed ultra-left politics. The defeat incurred by Labour was on a scale that broke its very soul. Jeremy...
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23rd Apr 2024 | Updated at 07:44pm 23rd 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: 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?
Introspection: Finding peace amid life's constant changes
- 27 Mar 2024
Change is an integral part of life, often serving as its only constant. Navigating through change is seldom easy; it can be unsettling, disruptive, and even painful.
The rule of the road
- 15 Feb 2024
Navigating life's seas
- 07 Feb 2024
Sepoy is an interesting term, one that even I have used often. It has many meanings, from what it meant originally to what it later became
It wasn't long ago when the cricketing world was expecting England to lose in the ongoing Test series against South Africa, especially with the Proteas appointing a new management team consisting of stalwarts such as Graeme Smith and Jaques...
Dear Readers,
Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation for the Indians and a global messenger of peace, had intuition that he would be killed
Dear Readers,
- 21 Jan 2020
UK's oldest and perhaps the most “unbiased and balanced” broadcasting organisation appears to be in a soup.From the recent resignation of its director general Tony Hall to the slew of equal pay claims following Samira Ahmed's victory, the corporation...
Sepoy is an interesting term, one that even I have used often. It has many meanings, from what it meant originally to what it later became. Sepoy was an Indian serving under the orders of the British as one of their soldiers during the British...
The challenges facing the NHS are by now so well-publicised that they’re barely worth repeating, but in a nutshell, the entire health and social care machine has an awful lot more work to do, and an awful lot less money with which to do it....
- 20 Jan 2020
Access India Program (AIP) is a flagship program of the High Commission to promote the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government of India. As the name suggests, the program is aimed at facilitating access to India. Small and Medium Enterprises...
