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Trudeau apologises for Canada's rejection of Komagata Maru migrant ship in 1914

 Almost 102 years after Canada turned away over 376 migrants, mostly Sikhs from India, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally apologised in Parliament for the "great injustice" that happened due......

Canada to formally apologise for 1914 Komagata Maru tragedy

 IMAGE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in Baisakhi celebrations at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday. Photograph: Chris Wattie/Reuters Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on......

The Komagata Maru is also a Hindu issue

 New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton has presented a petition, calling on the government to officially apologize inCanada's House of Commons for the 1914 Komagata Maru tragedy. The presentation......

Canada looks back at Komagata Maru tragedy

 Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has named a 3-member Indo-Canadian Committee for the Community Historical Recognition Program to look at the projects from the community for sensitizing......

'Canada should apologise for Komagata Maru'

Professor Ranta Ghosh of McGill University believes the Canadian government should offer a formal apology in Parliament for the Komagata Maru incident. Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an......

The end of the immigration boom

 The relatively free movement of labour across borders for the last few decades has generally had a positive impact on many countries because of the large remittances sent home by expatriates. In......

Re-living the Komagata Maru tragedy

 Deepa Mehta's forthcoming feature film, Komagata Maru, starring Akshay Kumar, will also star newcomer Vinay Virmani, 23. A graduate of theLee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute of New York,......

Why Deepa Mehta may not call Padma Lakshmi

 Padma Lakshmi is back to alluring television watchers, now that the sixth season of Bravo's hit food reality show Top Chef is on air. But while the model, chef and bestselling cookbook writer is......

Akshay in Deepa Mehta's next?

 Deepa Mehta plans to make anambitious film on the 1914 Komagata Maru tragedy thatdemonstrated the racist policies of the then Canadian Government.Toronto-based Hamilton-Mehta Productions announced......

The Bapsi Sidhwa-Deepa Mehta connection

 Eight years after Deepa Mehta turned Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Cracking India into an acclaimed film called Fire, and a few weeks after Sidhwa published the novel Water based on Mehta's award-winning......

Get ready to watch Midnight's Children

 After having eluded half a dozen efforts over last two decades to make it into a film, Salman Rushdie's acclaimed novel Midnight's Children is getting a big push. Deepa Mehta will produce and......

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