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Thanks to a Vancouver-based body of literary awards, the Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature, Balbir Madhopuri’s Mitti Bol Peye has received this year’s award in the “novel” category. Based on the Dalit resistance movement in Punjab, the novel is a powerful commentary on the oppression of the so-called untouchables in a caste-based Indian society. The […]
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Punjabi novel on Dalit resistance movement gets international attention
November 14th, 2021 
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Tags: attention, dalit, international, movement, novel, punjabi, Resistance 
No Comments »Canadian Punjabi Press Club holds demonstration outside Indian consulate in Vancouver
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Members of the South Asian media fraternity came together on Monday, February 8, to raise their voices against ongoing suppression of freedom of the press in the world’s so called largest democracy. The demonstration was held right outside the Indian Consulate in Vancouver, by the Punjabi Press Club of British Columbia (PPCBC). This was in […]
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February 5th, 2021 Awake Goy A film actor who found himself at the centre of the storming of Delhi’s iconic Red Fort on Tuesday has reportedly gone missing, as police seek to question him for his role in the Republic Day protests. Deep Sidhu was pictured and filmed alongside a group of farmers who broke away from a peaceful tractor […]
Canadian Punjabi Press Club holds demonstration in support of journalists being harassed by the Indian authorities
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Members of the South Asian media fraternity came together on Monday, February 1, outside Indian visa and passport center in Surrey, to raise their voices against suppression of the free press in the world’s so called largest democracy. Organized by the Punjabi Press Club of British Columbia, the rally was called in response to the […]
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