by Barnie Choudhury
IN THE late 1960s, those east African-Asians who saw signs that things were about to change for the worse fled Uganda.
A few...
By Tan Dhesi
HAPPY Gurpurab to my fellow Sikhs in the UK and around the world. As we celebrate the 550th birthday of our beloved,...
by BARNIE CHOUDHURY
Former BBC journalist
IT WAS 1996, and I had moved to Leicester where everyone was waxing lyrical about this dynamic, eloquent and change-making...
by SAILESH MEHTA
Mosaic Initiative
IN THE early hours of June 14, 2017, at Grenfell Tower in north Kensington, London, a kitchen fire in a flat...
by BARNIE CHOUDHURY
Former BBC journalist
THERE were four of us who were black or Asian on the BBC local radio trainee scheme.
We made up 25...
by BARNIE CHOUDHURY
Former BBC journalist
WHEN my father died 19 years ago, I was in a shop buying a traditional white Punjabi kurta. My face...
by SUNDER KATWALA,
Director, British Future
THE armies that fought in the First and Second World Wars looked rather more like the Britain of 2019 than...
By His Holiness Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati
IT IS so beautiful to be celebrating this divine holiday of light together.
Diwali is not only a holiday,...
by ZAKI COOPER and DR PETER CHADHA
EARLIER this month , we marked the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth.
One of the interesting things about...
by Barnie Choudhury
THIS week I want to declare a personal interest – I am the chair of Awaaz, a mental health charity in Nottingham...
