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.”

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Even though the satirical poem in CB’s Jivant Panth column in Gujarat Samachar a couple of weeks ago is presented as a joke and meant for fun, it seems very appropriate for today’s India where corruption and nepotism are rife.

It seems Mr Khajuria’s interpretation is often geared to prove his narrow minded point, irrespective of facts and figures he is so fond of quoting! He jumped to conclusion I was referring to India when no country was mentioned.

Now and again TV channels come-out with heart-warming programmes that would keep winter blues at bay! ITV gave us “Heart Beat” and “Peak Practice”. Latest such programme, a joint BBC-French production is “Death in Paradise” in its’ third series....

Oil and gas were discovered Azerbaijan in the 19th century. The Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oilfield, known as ACG, is at a depth of five kilometres below the Caspian Seabed about 170 km from port of Baku.

AV/GS has been fortunate to have some prolific writers who enthusiastically make their contributions on regular basis. There has been an addition of two female writers namely Kumudini Valambia and Ila Kapadia in the club. Hope they will continue...



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