Ekta

MIGRITUDE explores global themes; heritage, war, freedom, by making intimate family treasures public. Similarly, it expresses universal experiences of colonized peoples through the journeys of Shailjas own diasporic Indian family. Three cross-continental migrations shape the story: the early 20th-century migration of Indians to East Africa; the mas... s expulsion and emigration of East African Indians to the global North from the 1970s onwards, and Shailjas own emigration from Africa, to Europe, to the US. The sequence maps her personal transitions as a migrant: from survival to self-expression, invisibility to activism, model minority to radical artist. Join the South Asian community in the SF Bay Area and show your solidarity to the marchers in India and Pakistan, who are threading across the subcontinent on a 6-week mission of establishing people-to-people contact, negating the tendencies of distrust, hatred and enmity, and spreading the message of peace and harmony. The march begins at Mission St/16th St and ends at Gadar Memorial Hall in Japantown. The American State department decision to deny Mr. Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat and chief architect of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, a diplomatic visa and to revoke his existing tourist/business visa based on the International Religious Freedom Act is a landmark victory for the Coalition Against Genocide (CAG).... read more Continuous Journey is a complex tale of hope, despair, treachery and tragedy. It is a revealing Canadian story with global ramifications set in a time when the British Empire seemed omnipresent and its subjects were restless and seeking self-determination. In 1914, Gurdit Singh, a Sikh entrepreneur based in Singapore, chartered a Japanese ship, the Komagata Maru, to carry Indian immigrants to Canada. On May 23, 1914, the ship arrived in Vancouver Harbour with 376 passengers aboard: 340 Sikhs; 24 Muslims and 12 Hindus. Many of the men on-board were veterans of the British Indian Army and believed that it was their right as British ...Read More