While we battle the invisible and evil coronavirus, we have a responsibility to promote solidarity based on human rights and human dignity
Between 1943 and 1949, the Indian working-class were ridiculed on radio
If my culinary coup was for a school test, the teacher’s comment would have been: a good attempt but more practise is required.
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.
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 ...
Without much fuss and fanfare, a mainstay in the community, possessing boundless energy, liveliness and an indomitable spirit, quietly slipped away, writes Yogin ...
I ask this because two emotionally-draining events in the past few weeks should have had me shedding tears. But my eyes were dry.
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 ...
Financial elder abuse, ranging from blatant threats relating to money to not repaying loans, defrauding bank accounts or stopping visits and support until money ...
A simple wood-and-iron structure was built, comprising a temple and rooms for Tamil and music classes.
There is only one God for all who is equally accessible to all his children.
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 ...
Creativity, modernisation and mediation between the old and the new have led to the onset of a new collection of Indian names.
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?
Mandela was colour blind as far as Indians were concerned - unlike some politicians of today who regularly spew anti-Indian rhetoric, writes YOGIN DEVAN
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 ...
There is no word for the parent whose child dies.
My son did it the new-fangled way - he WhatsApped a photo of his new-born daughter.
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 ...
Mark Antony says in Julius Caesar: ?The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. ?
On the question of racist tendencies within society, he said ?many Indians are racist, just as I believe that many Africans are also racist?. - ...
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.
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.
Four of the saints - Manickavasagar, Sambandhar, Thirunavukkarasar and Sundharamurthi - are the more prominent of the 63 saints.
?The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ?