Browsing Tag: Immigrants

Ugandan Sikh MP, whose family was spared by Idi Amin, woos Punjabi farmers

The first African Sikh MP, whose family was among a very few who did not leave Uganda, and was considered a favourite of despot Idi Amin during 1970s, wants Punjabi farmers to cultivate land in the east African country that is now becoming a passage to entire east Africa after South Sudan became a new country recently.
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Curry Parmesan: Sikhs rescue Italy's famous cheese

Who would have thought that Sikhs would some day become the workers behind Italy's historic cheese industry?
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Life as an Italian American Sikh female taxi driver in NYC

The 57-year-old emigrated to the US with her family when she was a toddler, but she has not spoken to her relatives for years after falling in love with, and marrying, a Sikh man from the Punjab.
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Against All Odds: Accomplished Dealers Share Their Immigrant Roots

In an age of technological ease, socially accepted incompetence, and a media-inflated sense of personal entitlement, inspiration to do business can be hard to find. After all, who needs a good work ethic when respect is demanded rather than earned? When mediocrity (or worse) isn’t the exception but the norm?...
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On the Achacha trail

And that's how I would get a nibble of that ‘Queen of Tropical Fruits', the mangosteen, or of its kin, the rambutan, lychee and longat. In that process, thanks to a daughter who is adventurous and explorative with anything to do with food, I discovered the achacha - and truly is it achacha, as they would say somewhere up north of the Vindhyas.
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Many changes in the Sikh community in the 1920s

This article is part of community-wide centennial celebrations honoring the building of the National Historic Site Gur Sikh Temple (est. 1911). These centenary celebrations bring to the forefront the efforts of those first Sikh pioneers who helped to build our community.
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Witnessing the Economic Recession in London

Writer Danik Bhaskar reports from London, where he is currently travelling
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Punjab's migrants take less home

Pyara Singh is on his annual visit home from Hamburg, Germany, where he works as a cook in a pizzeria.
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Rights, Sikhs and Canadian Multiculturalism

The World Sikh Organization of Canada has a commendable battle record and a list of successes in their pursuit of Sikhs’ rights.
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Celebrating the success of Sikhs in British Columbia

Both my grandfather and grandmother passed along the virtues of hard work, honesty, humility and a high regard for education to each of their children.
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