There has been an increase of 14 per cent - the highest since 2008 in homicides which is a worrying situation. We need more bobbies on the beat to face this rise in crime, anti-social behaviour and homicides. It is time now to restore the Police...

A donkey said to a tiger, 'The grass is blue.' Tiger said, 'No grass is green.'

I refer to the article “The Baggage of Old Age” in last week’s AV, which vividly describes dilemma facing elderly parents, especially single parents when one partner passes away. Normally ladies are the ones who are left behind, due to their...

In recent days, some of the countries in the world have witnessed unprecedented public unrest. In our neighbouring country France, there have been violent protests called 'Yellow Vest Protest'. It all started with riots in Paris but then spread...

I think Narendra Modi is proving to be India's greatest prime minister so far and Gujaratis everywhere are sure to agree with me. 

I have been reading about Asian Voice's plan to print a magazine on the Kenyan Asians. I have had friends who are Punjabi and come from Kenya. Some of them could even speak Gujarati! In a tv interview years back, I had seen Lord Suri interacting...

Why are gurus like Ram Rahim mushrooming in India?

Every time we turn on the television or radio or open a newspaper we are warned to eat healthier foods or risk contracting anything from cancer to diabetes. Eat less, the experts rant, clenching a fist and pointing at it to demonstrate how small...

As 29th of March, the proposed date for Brexit – Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) - is drawing nearer, everything does not seem cut and dried. There are suggestions that the Government should leave the EU without a deal at all, and...

Those who were brought-up in East Africa, with mild weather, long warm days, plenty of open space and beautiful Indian Ocean on our door-step, outdoor life was inevitable, especially in those care-free post WW2 era when there was no television...