Toronto: India has flagged the series of episodes of vandalism targeting statues of Mahatma Gandhi to the Canadian government. The bust of Mahatma Gandhi at the Simon Fraser University campus in Burnaby, British Columbia that was garlanded on October 2 every year. The latest such incident involved the decapitation of a Gandhi sculpture located on the campus of the Simon …
Burnaby, a city in Canada, has declared September 5 as Gauri Lankesh Day, commemorating the slain activist’s life on her death anniversary. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on September 8 is expected to hear the plea filed by Gauri’s sister Kavita Lankesh, challenging the dropping of charges under the Karnataka Control of Organized Crime Act 2000 against one of the accused …
The Canadian city of Burnaby had declared September 5 as Gauri Lankesh Day. The decision to commemorate Gauri Lankesh Day was taken during Burnaby City Council on August 30. “Gauri Lankesh through her work encouraged her readers to adopt scientistic temperament and reject religious fanaticism, caste-based discrimination and bigotry,” read the proclamation on the city website. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court …
