Indian, or Bollywood, movies would be incomplete without a song and dance number. India produces approximately 1000 movies a year annually. On average, each movie has about five to six songs, which means that at least 5000 movie songs are released every year. There are songs about the obscurest of...

The UN Security Council imposed stringent economic sanctions on Iraq on 6th August, 1990, four days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. When the first Persian Gulf War had succeeded to oust Iraq from Kuwait the following year, the Security Council did not proceed to lift all the sanctions. Passed...

Arts can be about politics but there should be no politics about art. Politicians should never meddle with the arts. Unfortunately, political meddling was the stark reality for a recent Indian film. Raees, starring one of Bollywood's most phenomenal actors, Shah Rukh Khan, as a bootlegger, has been draped in...

Canada is my home and I never thought I would ever have to move away. However, we moved to the United States a year and half ago so my husband could pursue a career advancement. There were a few things that struck me as odd when I first moved to...

Whenever I declared that I was born in a non-English speaking country and lived there until middle school, I frequently got the response, "But, your English is so good!" As if speaking in English was the only mark of intelligence or education.

I was often tempted to reply with...

Iraqi kids, unrelated to the author, in the rubble after Allied bombers blasted a neighbourhood in the centre of Fallujah during the Gulf War, Feb. 19, 1991. (Photo: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

I was allowed to stay up late and watch the...