http://skatec.cz/?p=6 A quote from Footprints of Partition by Anam Zakaria: “I would remember the way my mother spoke about celebrating Holi, Diwali and Eid with her Hindu friends. My father was from Punjab and so he had many Sikh friends. They would tell me that there used to be no stark Hindu-Sikh-Muslim distinction as there is…
http://dreamingoutloud.nl/catrice-fallosophy/ Today we are exploring 5 brilliant and inspiring poets living in Britain of South Asian origin. Some talk about the large gap between their lives in Britain and their history in South Asia, whilst others are committed to sharing their story and the struggles that themselves and their peers have lived through. Moniza Alvi Moniza…
Curry has well and truly been adopted by Britain as a national dish. It is thought that 23 million people in the UK enjoy curry on a regular basis and with numbers like those; it’s easy to see just how much of a home Britain is for many types of curry. Curry in the UK…
Grand Trunk Road – “A River of Life” Grand Trunk Road (GT Road) is one of the oldest and longest roads cutting across South Asia. It is over 1,500 miles (2,500km) and extends from Kabul all the way through Lahore, Delhi and reaching Kolkata in West Bengal and Chittagong in Bangladesh. Rudyard Kipling, the poet…
