Bhopal 25 years on

Feb 17, 2010 by

Bhopal 25 years on

Back in Dec’09 it was 25 years since the Union Carbide plant accident took place. In December 1984 India saw the beginning of...

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Sikhnet Film Festival 2009 ent...

Jul 23, 2009 by

This is my entry for this year’s Sikhnet Film Festival. I recorded it on 7th June 2009 and am grateful to my editor for helping...

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Listening to the sound of fall...

Nov 20, 2008 by

This is a video that I picked up via a FB message. Lives maybe lost but the demand for justice is not… In November 1984...

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Remember the tragedy of 1984 e...

Jun 3, 2008 by

In 1984 the world viewed the media blackout and violence against the Sikhs in India. In June 1984 the Bluestar operation was brutal...

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Rev Jesse Jackson and The Rain...

Nov 20, 2007 by

Wow! What a week it was last week. I had a call late Thursday to interview Reverend Jesse Jackson. Mono: Audio clip: Adobe Flash...

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Bullying on TV

Nov 6, 2007 by

I’ve written about the appalling behaviour of some people on TV in the past. For example, Dragons Den. Recently I considered how...

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Too late for the VT killer �...

Apr 24, 2007 by

Last week everyone watched with shock and horror the post nightmare of the Virginia Tech shootings. Scholars and lecturers were gunned...

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On 25 March 1807, the Abolitio...

Mar 28, 2007 by

For more than 200 years Britain was at the heart of a rich (to them!) transatlantic trade in millions of enslaved Africans. On 25...

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Jaded Characters

Jan 23, 2007 by

A ‘play’ on words, in my belief rightly so. OK, so now I’m joining the debate or should I say essential discussion regarding what has...

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India’s road death toll

Jan 9, 2007 by

Over the weekend I received some seriously bad news. My cousin died in a road accident. A lorry collided with a motorbike he was...

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Never forget 1984

Nov 17, 2006 by

Have you ever been asked what the definition of irony is? Try to think of an example. You could always use the one about the first...

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