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This week marks a sad one in India’s history. In June 1984, Operation Blue Star, one of the darkest parts of the Punjab Insurgency, occurred. The wounds of these events are still healing in India, but nefarious forces are politicising them in the UK. It saddens me to see people …

For years it has been one of the (many) dirty secrets of NRI communities around the world. Successful NRI men – in an overwhelmingly majority of cases highly qualified professionals in IT, Banking and Engineering – taking their Indian wives back to India and abandoning them before returning to their …

Poonam Joshi has never believed in awards and accolades. She was even more cynical about “award ceremonies” – the dime-a-dozen events where the same group of British Asian acquaintances have a bit of a slap up, write some cheques and “honour greatness” in their midst, year in and year out. …

  The biggest ever Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) gets underway in London this week and no leader will have a more significant impact or more rapturous a welcome than the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Thousands of Indians from right across the British Isles – members of what …

ALL the “winners” of the Mrs Asia UK pageant (Picture courtesy of Mrs. Asia UK Facebook) Despite a successful career, a beautiful family and a reflection in the mirror that was the envy of many, life in the UK for 40-year-old Sapaaa (not her real name.  OBVIOUSLY.  No one spells …

As a woman, a mother and a journalist I wear many “badges”. But perhaps my most treasured “badge of honour” is the one with the list of enemies that I have made along the way. Not only have they taught me much about life but they are there because I …

A Sikh business executive visiting the United Kingdom has spoken of his shock after his turban was ripped before being told: “Muslim go back”. Ravneeta Singh, a project manager for an environmental firm based in India, was waiting near London’s Portculis House on Wednesday afternoon when he was attacked. He …

The heartbroken father of a young woman from Telangana whose lifeless body was found off the coast of Kent has called for “justice”, accusing her husband and his family of driving his only daughter to suicide. Questions continue to swirl around the death of Swathi Tirumalagiri, 26, who was pulled …

A family doctor has appeared in court charged with 118 sexual offences, including sexually assaulting a girl aged under 13. Dr Manish Shah, 47, is accused of assaulting 54 different victims at his surgery in Romford, Essex. The offences are said to have taken place between June 2004 and July …

Eight members of the same family, visiting the UK from Kerala, are believed to have been killed in a horror crash involving two trucks and a minibus the victims were travelling in near the town of Milton Keynes. Four others – including a 5-year-old girl – were injured and are …