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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 …

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. …

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 Sapna with a brace of a’s) was often tedious and monotonous. And if tedium was getting …

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 well known London-based socialite and fashion designer Neishaa Gharat has been placed in police custody in New Delhi over an alleged multi-million pound fraud perpetrated involving her and members of her family. Mrs Gharat – who runs the ‘House of Gharats’ design consultancy – was arrested by police at …

A group of Indian students who allege they have been left out of pocket to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds after being defrauded by a West London immigration advisor staged a silent protest outside the man’s residence on Sunday (31 January) as new details emerged of the case …

They are the words that any first generation migrant dreads: “Your application for further leave to remain in the UK has been refused under paragraph…”, the Home Office letter, dated 16 October, states. Despite being just words on a piece of paper, there’s an ominous ring to such correspondence – …

A UKIP activist is facing a party inquiry after his home town of Leicester was a “shit-hole” full of “Pakis”. Richard Crouch, Secretary for the South Leicestershire branch of the UK Independence Party, posted the message along with a string of other racist posts on his Facebook page. The full …