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CBC: Journalist upset about link between Indian Rakhi festival and...
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Last evening, I was a guest on CBC’s On the Coast show to talk about my stand against City of Surrey associating the warm festival of rakhi with domestic violence. The...
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Mangoes: a slice of immigrant life, South Asian style
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Downtown Toronto. Fresh snow on the ground. A young man of about 20 on a sidewalk. He is dressed like any Canadian young man, except his tee with the word Pakistan written...
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Bhangra: stop cultural stereotyping of Punjabis
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra How do you tell a Canadian of Punjabi heritage to step out and take a walk? Going by David Suzuki Foundation: wear a bhangra outfit, put on Punjabi music and invite Punjabis...
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Call us desi if you want to. We have big hearts and a lot of candy for Halloween
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra First, the desi story: Who is a desi (pronounced they-see)? In the Canadian colloquial use, the word desi has come to denote, one of South Asian-heritage. Literally, desi, a...
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Reject “girl things” and “boy things”. Sex organs don’t dictate nurturing or...
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra “Look mom, Kabir is pretending to be a mommy”, my then four-year old daughter pointed enthusiastically at her year-old brother, who lovingly pushed a doll stroller around the...
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Gender equality: When a man and a woman are just friends, who should pay for...
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Last week I posted a poll on my Facebook page. Titled, “When out on a casual luncheon with a guy friend, do women still expect the guy to pay the bill? Do men get offended...
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Yoga: so you thought it was all about getting into downward dog or headstand?...
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra I call myself a yogini, a practitioner of Yoga. Technically, I also am a certified Yoga teacher. Starting from this post, I am introducing the category “Yoga” on my blog....
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You think you know how to breathe? Wrong. Let Yoga teach you correct breathing
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Who would have thought with the progress of science and technology, human beings would lose the basic tech-how of life – the skill of breathing? Yes, breathing: the simple...
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Patriarchy and racism give birth to rape culture, not a drunk woman or her...
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra The 16-year old Steubenville rape victim went through a horrifying rape ordeal – she was raped, tossed around like a sex toy, photographed and mocked at. It just didn’t...
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Guest blog: Bollywood extravaganza TOIFA comes to Vancouver — on the backs of...
First came the Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA) announcement. Interestingly, the timing of the awards couldn’t be politically better: to be held on April 06, just ahead of the B.C. provincial...
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Why the fear around “ethnic enclaves” and fewer White faces in Metro Vancouver?
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra If you are reading this on your handheld device, please sit down and put your device on a table, lest you drop it and break it. Here’s the scariest news to come out this...
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Why these five “solutions” can’t end rape culture
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Last month, I wrote how Patriarchy and racism give birth to rape culture, not a drunk woman or her miniskirt. It generated quite a response, but for any blogger, academic...
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Parenting rarely works on advice, but here’s one: don’t lie to your child
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra At my daughter’s school, to drop her off, I saw one of her classmates miserably clinging to his mother. As we waited for the kindergarten teacher to come and take the kids, I...
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Terrorism has no race, no culture, or an accent
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra The first of the many tweets in reaction to the twin bombings at the Boston marathon yesterday: “Oh God, please, let it not be a Muslim”. “Please don’t be Arabs or Muslims”....
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Why free food is not the highlight of Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan (parade)
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan (parade) is not about free food. Period. I am tired of hearing the phrase “free food” in some media coverage without giving a context to it. Yes, the...
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Yoga is not scientific; science is, but a small part of Yoga
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Whoa! What? Yes, Yoga is not scientific; science is, but a small part of Yoga. Now you’ll ask: how? Prove it. Give me the scientific evidence. First an explanation of where...
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A little girl challenging notions of beauty and body image
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Look at the picture on the right. This is a snapshot from the only fairytale book I bought my five-year old daughter. I bought it, because even though I dislike the...
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A year of finding Self: SandhuBhamra.com is one today!
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra A year ago, on this date, I launched my blog SandhuBhamra.com – a voice to the internal conflict of finding who I am. I was born and raised in India and started working as a...
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It’s poll time on SandhuBhamra.com: do you believe in karma?
Filed under: Yoga Tagged: Destiny, karma, Yoga
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Eating like a yogini: Why a vegetarian diet? (Part 1)
By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Tired of listening to benefits of being a vegetarian? Doesn’t make sense to let go of a dinner of steak and wine? Or give up delicious hamburgers? And what about butter...
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