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These musicians and thinkers want to spotlight the mystical dimension of Islam
MISAQ-E-ISHQ featuring ALI SETHI, NOAH GEORGESON and ALI ASANI at Aga Khan Museum, Sunday, August 19. Rating: NNN The Misaq-E-Ishq performance started late, but I... -
David Chariandy writes a letter to his daughter about race
Two summers ago, there was in incident at our neighbourhood park involving my daughter, who was six at the time. This story requires a bit... -
David Chariandy celebrates the uncool kids of Scarborough in Brother
“I have to say right off the bat – I am uncool. It should be in print.” Sitting in A Different Booklist, a bookstore that... -
Bollywood enters unchartered waters with a rom-com about erectile dysfunction
I settle into my seat at Cineplex Yonge-Dundas to watch a matinee show of Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, a Bollywood rom-com about erectile dysfunction, and I... -
Behind Parvaaz’s month-long Toronto tour
PARVAAZ at the Hideout (423 College), September 7 and 9, 9 pm. $10. And at Small World Music Centre (180 Shaw studio 101), September 10,... -
Before you hide a guy in your closet, read Toronto pop artist Hatecopy’s Trust No Aunty
For a while, I have been wondering what kind of an aunty I am. In South Asian culture – although this expression is pretty much... -
Shah Rukh Khan’s latest rom-com is exactly why Bollywood needs more complicated female characters
About a third of the way into Jab Harry Met Sejal, the latest Hindi film starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and winsome actor Anushka... -
From literary darling to polarizing activist: Arundhati Roy returns to fiction after 20 years of rabble rousing
ARUNDHATI ROY reading from The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness at Bloor Street United Church (300 Bloor West), June 22, 7:30 pm. $8. Advance tickets sold... -
Pasha Malla: ‘Writers of colour are expected to explain themselves to a larger audience’
For the longest time, Pasha Malla avoided writing about Kashmir. As the son of a Kashmiri father and British mother born and brought up in...