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521. Brotherly love
Asian News, Tuesday 1 October 2002SO OFTEN customs and festivals serve to divide people along lines of race, religion or gender. But not the south Asian custom of Raksha Bandhan. This unites brother and sister, and, historically at least, Hindu and Muslim. Our correspondent in India, Sheetal Kiran, who has just celebrated Raksha Bandhan at her home in Poona, explains.
522. Hoping for the promised land
Asian News, Tuesday 1 October 2002ONE quarter of a million Biharis - Urdu speakers in Bangladesh - have been constantly promised passage to Pakistan, the country they backed in the independence war but, as peace studies expert Ghulam Sarwar Nawaz discovered on his fact finding mission, pledges come cheap while misery multiplies.
523. A hair-raising tale
Asian News, Tuesday 1 October 2002Sufiya Rehman throws light on a delicate subject.
524. Is this justice?
Asian News, Sunday 1 September 2002TRIALS involving 150 people - mainly Asian young men - charged with violence during last summer's Oldham riots have begun in Manchester. Over the Pennines concern has already been voiced at the harshness of the sentences handed down to young Asians found guilty of crimes during similar disturbances in Bradford according to this article first published in Asian News's sister paper The Guardian.
525. Bombs away on Holi-day
Asian News, Sunday 1 September 2002SHEETAL Kiran has a post-graduate diploma in journalism from Xavier's Institute of Communications in Bombay, India. She is currently on holiday in England and completing work experience with Asian News. Here she describes one of her favourite times of year - the Hindu festival of Holi, a celebration of colour. With the mischief making it stimulates it is rather the British bonfire night.
526. The forgotten people
Asian News, Sunday 1 September 2002THEY live in camps without rights and sometimes water - Palestinians? No, Bangladesh's own refugees, the stranded Biharis. Peace studies expert Ghulam Sarwar Nawaz travelled six thousand miles to investigate
527. Punjabi treasures to be on the Internet
Asian News, Thursday 1 August 2002THE story of Punjabi life and culture told through rare and centuries old manuscripts is to be catalogued and put on the Internet for the first time.
528. Atrocities in the name of the law
Asian News, Thursday 1 August 2002SADIA Ashiq asks when will women cease to be 'the accused'.
529. Traitor or hero - the strange life of Chandra Bose
Asian News, Thursday 1 August 2002NEXT month sees independence celebrations for both India and Pakistan - Asian News investigates one of the most controversial leaders of the struggle.
530. They fought ... they died
Asian News, Thursday 1 August 2002THE new Imperial War Museum North tells the history of the 20th century's greatest bloodlettings - World War I and World War II. In a corner of this sobering exhibition the men and women of the former British Empire who fought for their British 'masters' are commemorated. Asian News editor STEVE HAMMOND went along to see how well these largely unknown soldiers have been remembered.