World needs unity, not this religious bigotry

Yogin Devan|Published

While we battle the invisible and evil coronavirus, we have a responsibility to promote solidarity based on human rights and human dignity

Let’s keep Indian music alive

Yogin Devan|Published

Between 1943 and 1949, the Indian working-class were ridiculed on radio

Opinion - Virus has driven home what's really important

Yogin Devan|Published

If my culinary coup was for a school test, the teacher’s comment would have been: a good attempt but more practise is required.

Opinion - Nothing to replace the appeal of tinned fish

Yogin Devan|Published

This week Durban writer Yogin Devan looks at the effect of the removal of certain brands of tinfish from shelves, speaking directly to Indian cuisine.

Opinion: Never mind age, there’s plenty of life in veteran doctors

Yogin Devan|Published

The usual position of older workers is that they begin counting the days until their retirement, but that’s not the case for many doctors who have a more complicated ...

Cheers to a mainstay of community spirit

Yogin Devan|Published

Without much fuss and fanfare, a mainstay in the community, possessing boundless energy, liveliness and an indomitable spirit, quietly slipped away, writes Yogin ...

Opinion - Of course it’s okay for men to cry

Yogin Devan|Published

I ask this because two emotionally-draining events in the past few weeks should have had me shedding tears. But my eyes were dry.

Going back in time from plastic to banana leaves

Yogin Devan|Published

The birth of the new year saw Chennai Corporation officials conducting searches in shops across the city and confiscating single-use plastic items such as shopping ...

Opinion: Parents must be on guard against thieving children

Yogin Devan|Published

Financial elder abuse, ranging from blatant threats relating to money to not repaying loans, defrauding bank accounts or stopping visits and support until money ...

Fostering religion and culture for 111 years

Yogin Devan|Published

A simple wood-and-iron structure was built, comprising a temple and rooms for Tamil and music classes.

At the end of the day, we all believe in the same God

Yogin Devan|Published

There is only one God for all who is equally accessible to all his children.

Removal of stone idols a ‘sin’

Yogin Devan|Published

Hindu leaders have described as ?sacrilegious? and ?a sin against God? the removal of 79 stone idols of saints who were venerated for having devoted their lives ...

How Indian names are evolving

Yogin Devan|Published

Creativity, modernisation and mediation between the old and the new have led to the onset of a new collection of Indian names.

Believe in yourselves, women told

Yogin Devan|Published

Several motivational speakers have urged women not to give up in the face of adversity but to firmly believe that ?every dark cloud has a silver lining?

Madiba ‘embraced Indianness’

Yogin Devan|Published

Mandela was colour blind as far as Indians were concerned - unlike some politicians of today who regularly spew anti-Indian rhetoric, writes YOGIN DEVAN

NHI can address SA's biased health-care system

Yogin Devan|Published

Many of these frail, elderly men and women are forced to use public transport and visit state hospitals in Chatsworth and Phoenix, although they have children who ...

An eye for an eye is not the answer

Yogin Devan|Published

There is no word for the parent whose child dies.

WhatsApp Dad? Meet your grandchild

Yogin Devan|Published

My son did it the new-fangled way - he WhatsApped a photo of his new-born daughter.

Embrace spirit of democracy

Yogin Devan|Published

It is true that apartheid created a racist hierarchy of ethnic group privileges, with blacks at the lowest level, whites at the highest and Indians somewhere in ...

We should stop the false praise for the deceased

Yogin Devan|Published

Mark Antony says in Julius Caesar: ?The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. ?

Many Indians racist, says former ConCourt judge

Yogin Devan|Published

On the question of racist tendencies within society, he said ?many Indians are racist, just as I believe that many ­Africans are also racist?. - ...

Curry as a sandwich filling was almost a staple diet

Yogin Devan|Published

My father would recall that in the 40s when he attended Sastri College, his lunch comprised of rice and a vegetable curry wrapped in a banana leaf.

Love without limits

Yogin Devan|Published

There was a time when it was anathema within the Indian community for a so-called high caste Hindu to marry a so-called low caste person.

Paying homage to 63 Hindu saints

Yogin Devan|Published

Four of the saints - Manickavasagar, Sambandhar, Thirunavukkarasar and Sundharamurthi - are the more prominent of the 63 saints.

Coalition of the righteous

Yogin Devan|Published

?The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ?