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Vast Indian diaspora builds bridges
June 05, 2011
Haroon Siddiqui - The Star, Toronto
On Jan. 9, 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned home after 22 years in South Africa where he invented non-violent resistance to fight racial discrimination. He would use satyagraha (Truth Force) in India to end British colonial rule in 1947.
Now on Jan. 9 every year, New Delhi hosts 1,500 representatives of the vast Indian diaspora of 25 million from 100 countries. A regional version comes to Toronto Thursday and Friday at the Metro Convention Centre for the 600,000 Indo-Canadians and the four million people of Indian origin in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Wooing the 500 delegates will be Governor General David Johnston and Premier Dalton McGuinty plus a ministerial and business delegation of about 100 from India.
India received $54 billion last year in remittances and investment from its diaspora. That
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Vast Indian diaspora builds bridges
June 05, 2011
Haroon Siddiqui - The Star, Toronto
On Jan. 9, 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned home after 22 years in South Africa where he invented non-violent resistance to fight racial discrimination. He would use satyagraha (Truth Force) in India to end British colonial rule in 1947.
Now on Jan. 9 every year, New Delhi hosts 1,500 representatives of the vast Indian diaspora of 25 million from 100 countries. A regional version comes to Toronto Thursday and Friday at the Metro Convention Centre for the 600,000 Indo-Canadians and the four million people of Indian origin in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Wooing the 500 delegates will be Governor General David Johnston and Premier Dalton McGuinty plus a ministerial and business delegation of about 100 from India.
India received $54 billion last year in remittances and investment from its diaspora. That
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