Recently I came across interesting article where it stated that six out of ten believe they were contacted by their departed partners. As we live in modern, scientific world where most do not believe even in God and churches are practically...
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27th Apr 2024 | Updated at 04:57am 27th Apr 2024
A lighter look at racism in Britain
An astute observer of British life once said: “If you see a white man dashing down the street, he is running to catch a bus. If it’s a black man sprinting, he must be running away from the police.”
Being a life long reader of GS/AV, I have been reading AV, especially "Your Voice" now "Reader Voice" column for a long time, although I put pen to paper on rare occasion. Bhupendrabhai was the mainstay of AV for considerable time, when it was...
We have seen people being fined for spitting in the street, or littering in the lanes or even honking their car horns in the wee hours of the night. Now, in a new initiative, one council in the north of the country has come up with the idea...
The Gurkhas have been facing "apartheid" system in Hong Kong in the last British administrative Hong Kong. Different schools for the Gurkha children's and different terms and conditions for the Gurkhas, compare to our British Counterparts in...
The current enigma: “if you cannot beat them, (do not) join them”. Are we the fifth largest economy in the world? Not in terms of per capita purchasing power parity income compared to 338 million Europeans in the 17 Eurozone countries: $30,000...
Niranjan Vasant mentioned two factors holding India back. There are many others ingrained in Indian psyche, will be difficult to overcome. Analogous to Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, India is like a “blasted heath” where “fair is foul and foul is...
Queen’s 90th birthday will be officially celebrated in June 2016, month long events for everyone to participate, from street parties, kids’ bouncing castles to dinner and dance at prestigious venues. “Clean for the Queen” is one of the worthiest...
Dilemma whether Britain should remain with EU or leave it has received extensive coverage in your newspapers. Notably the repercussions will be felt not only in UK but also in Europe and worldwide. If Bankers of 20 nations, meeting in Shanghai...
A distinguished Parsi judge of the Gujarat High Court, Justice J B Pardiwala made the following remarks in his recent judgement in Hardik Patel case on Reservations.
We are not talking about the bombardment on Syria or other such countries. It is the incessant ‘phone calls which have started pouring in at any odd time of the day. After a respite of few weeks (or shall we call it a cease fire of few weeks?),...
