I have made a resolution for the New Year; Resolution 2015: To fight to build a corruption free India. I have lived outside of India since December 31, 1964, first in England and since May, 1968 in Canada. I have led an active political life in Canada. I am now...

Throbbing in the billions of year end greetings of Happy Hanukhah, Merry Christmas is the rousing collective wish of our hearts for peace on earth. We express the same wish implicitly and explicitly at other times too when we wish Eid Mubarak, Happy Diwali and any number of other greetings...

Note: I had written this piece in horror at the Peshawar school massacre at the hands of the Taliban. The attack on the children, men and women in a Lahore Park is a further evidence of the horror men are capable of unleashing on other human beings in the name...

Jean Beliveau the gentle giant of Canada, the Canadian hockey legend is no more. My brother and I came to Canada in 1968. Our father and the two sisters joined us in 1969. My brother and I had played field hockey for our High School in India. We were the...

Three days ago I read a story in the Times of India (Times) about two students, twelve and eleven year old Aniket Bhoir and Monali Adari of Ambika Nagar, Bhawindi, India. They are from poor families. Aniket's parents are what the Times called daily wage labourers meaning low wage unskilled...

In The Words of Eric Garner: I Can't Breathe. Eric Garner died in an illegal New York police choke hold. He wasn't a gangster. He was a petty criminal. He was suspected of selling loose cigarettes and not paying tax on them. Thousands of white collar criminals in Canada, US...

Alberta is facing a moment of reckoning. No, it is not about the oil sands or pipelines. Nor is it about the Gateway or Energy East. Those issues are important. They are about money and taxes, but only about money and taxes. What Alberta is facing is lot more fundamental....

As a child when one begins to be aware of one's own existence and that of the world around, it also dawns on the baby being that individual life has an end. I remember consciously thinking about life in years and decades in two different centuries, 19th and 20th, at...

The murders of two unarmed Canadian soldiers Patrice Vincent and Nathan Cirillo within a short 72 hour period by Jihadists/terrorists have shocked Canadians. Unfortunately this is not the first time Canada has had to confront terrorism. The FLQ kidnappers and murderers, Air India bombers and the Toronto 18 were all...

Note: When I wrote the following piece it was not absolutely clear that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau had killed and attacked the House of Commons for ideological reasons. Now from the video he left the RCMP indicated he said he did so for political and ideological reasons. That is terrorism pure and...

The dreaded happened in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a quiet historic town in Quebec. Many years ago I stayed there for a couple of weeks trying unsuccessfully to learn French. When I walked the streets in the town looking for a good pub or an eatery people smiled at me and at each...

                                     Congratulation are in order for the recipients of this year's Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yosufzai, the campaigner for girls' education and Kailash Satyarthi the campaigner for children's rights to be free from...

While the world endlessly debates whether or not the air strikes alone would be sufficient in stemming the advance of ISIS the verdict is already crystal clear: the air strikes alone will not succeed against ISIS. Kobani is under siege. Turkey stands ready to not lift a finger to help...

Turkey fiddles, US and allies bomb, UN sleeps while brave women, children and men of Kobane fight for survival as ISIS threatens their very existence. Tukey's president Erdogan had promised it won't be allowed to happen. His Turkish tanks arrayed across the border in Turkey remain motionless as if they...

I have a question or two for CPR with respect to the right of way given it by British Columbia by way of a grant from the Provincial Crown. I have not been able to access the original document. I am assuming the grant was not for money but to...

Last night I was present along with a couple of hundred other people to see Jody Wilson Raybould acclaimed as the Liberal Party of Canada candidate for the newly created riding of Vancouver Granville. She is a lawyer, former prosecutor, former chair and member of the BC Treaty Commission and...

Author Douglas P. Welbanks is launching his latest book Unbreakable:The Ujjal Dosanjh Story Tuesday, August 5th 7:00-8:30PM Alma Van Dusen & Peter Kaye Rooms, Lower Level, Central Library, 350 West Georgia St. Vancuver, BC. Admission is free. Seating is limited. Doug, my wife Raminder and I have known each other...

 It seems to me PM Harper may be beginning to change to his new incarnation he wants to present to Canadians in the next election. I say so because against type for the first time he has appointed someone who was extremely critical of his government on the environment and...

From afar I have been watching with interest the dance the Congresswalas are engaged in. Eminently qualified or not to hold their positions most have shied away from criticising their patrons Sonia and Rahul. Some in the states that may have been appointed to run in elections because they brought...

I had decided not to blog during India's carnival of democracy. Not that most days I wasn't dying to express my opinion. It was hard to not do so though my better sense prevailed. I had no personal or ideological axe to grind and sitting in the comfortable environs of...