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May 20, 2011
The Bartered Bride and Arranged Marriages
BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes
Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating people, places and events.
In this episode: ambitious parents, thwarted lovers, scheming marriage brokers and surprise revelations - theatre director, Jatinder Verma considers the place of arranged marriages in Bollywood cinema.
Click here to listen to the programme
Note: This programme will only be available until 08:57pm, Friday 27 May 2011
Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating people, places and events.
In this episode: ambitious parents, thwarted lovers, scheming marriage brokers and surprise revelations - theatre director, Jatinder Verma considers the place of arranged marriages in Bollywood cinema.
Click here to listen to the programme
Note: This programme will only be available until 08:57pm, Friday 27 May 2011
May 19, 2011
Time to explode the great immigration myths
Evening Standard
The great myth about immigration is that there has never been any proper debate on the issue.
Not true. In the 40 years since I first arrived from India, immigration, like taxes and the royal family, has formed a constant backdrop of national discourse.
I came months after Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech. Then, immigration was a codeword for coloured immigration. But, as yesterday's figures from the Office of National Statistics show, the group showing the largest population increase between 2001 and 2009 were 533,000 "other whites": east Europeans and people from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. This should help us stop seeing the issue as a purely ethnic one.
The great myth about immigration is that there has never been any proper debate on the issue.
Not true. In the 40 years since I first arrived from India, immigration, like taxes and the royal family, has formed a constant backdrop of national discourse.
I came months after Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech. Then, immigration was a codeword for coloured immigration. But, as yesterday's figures from the Office of National Statistics show, the group showing the largest population increase between 2001 and 2009 were 533,000 "other whites": east Europeans and people from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. This should help us stop seeing the issue as a purely ethnic one.
May 17, 2011
Glory days stop FA Cup getting new lease of life, says Football League chairman
Evening Standard
The business of football may be very tricky - at the Fifa level even corrupt - but chairman of the Football League, Greg Clarke, is confident his style of management can deliver the goods.
Clarke has just completed a year at the top of the world's oldest football league when I tell him of comments from Barry Hearn. "These are difficult times," said Leyton Orient's owner, who fears his club are threatened by extinction if West Ham move to the Olympic Stadium. "The game needs strong leadership and Greg Clarke is not providing that."
Clarke, the former chief executive of Cable and Wireless, smiles and says: "There are some people who would much rather I jumped up and down and made a big fuss in public. I haven't run public companies turning over tens of billions by being a pushover."
The business of football may be very tricky - at the Fifa level even corrupt - but chairman of the Football League, Greg Clarke, is confident his style of management can deliver the goods.
Clarke has just completed a year at the top of the world's oldest football league when I tell him of comments from Barry Hearn. "These are difficult times," said Leyton Orient's owner, who fears his club are threatened by extinction if West Ham move to the Olympic Stadium. "The game needs strong leadership and Greg Clarke is not providing that."
Clarke, the former chief executive of Cable and Wireless, smiles and says: "There are some people who would much rather I jumped up and down and made a big fuss in public. I haven't run public companies turning over tens of billions by being a pushover."
Rock n Roll football show
Absolute Radio
Russ Williams and the Absolute Radio Sports team bring you a daily dose of footballing banter, gossip & news. In this podcast Russ Williams interviews Mihir Bose.
Rock n Roll Football Show 17 May 2011 – Absolute Radio (Duration – 19 mins 26 secs)
Russ Williams and the Absolute Radio Sports team bring you a daily dose of footballing banter, gossip & news. In this podcast Russ Williams interviews Mihir Bose.
Rock n Roll Football Show 17 May 2011 – Absolute Radio (Duration – 19 mins 26 secs)
May 11, 2011
Outstanding British Asians – Mihir Bose
Brit Asia TV
Outstanding British Asians: show features remarkable British Asians who are role models to gain inspiration from for young British Asians.
Guest: Mihir Bose, journalist and sportswriter, former BBC's sport editor.
Outstanding British Asians: show features remarkable British Asians who are role models to gain inspiration from for young British Asians.
Guest: Mihir Bose, journalist and sportswriter, former BBC's sport editor.
Hideously Diverse Britain – A passage from India
by Hugh Muir, The Guardian
Some drift towards their destiny. For others, it all hinges on a single moment. It was like that for me, says Mihir Bose. Now 64, he travelled to Britain from India to study more than 40 years ago and has since moved back and forth, exploiting his status as a returning resident. It seemed the ideal arrangement for a young man pulled between dreams of making a name for himself here and a hugely privileged, less romantic lifestyle in India. And it was ideal, until an immigration officer at Heathrow said: "If you want to live here, live here." "I had to decide; do I go back to India and continue as an accountant and give up being a writer, or stay? I thought if I went back, I would always kick myself." So he stayed, to the annoyance of his father, an industrialist who envisaged a life for his son more lucrative than journalism...
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This article relates to Mihir's performance 'The heartache we must endure' with Lola Perrin, with Y Yadavan on 21st May 2011 at the Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA. Click here to book tickets, or enter the competition to win 2 tickets to this one-night-only event.
Some drift towards their destiny. For others, it all hinges on a single moment. It was like that for me, says Mihir Bose. Now 64, he travelled to Britain from India to study more than 40 years ago and has since moved back and forth, exploiting his status as a returning resident. It seemed the ideal arrangement for a young man pulled between dreams of making a name for himself here and a hugely privileged, less romantic lifestyle in India. And it was ideal, until an immigration officer at Heathrow said: "If you want to live here, live here." "I had to decide; do I go back to India and continue as an accountant and give up being a writer, or stay? I thought if I went back, I would always kick myself." So he stayed, to the annoyance of his father, an industrialist who envisaged a life for his son more lucrative than journalism...
Read more
This article relates to Mihir's performance 'The heartache we must endure' with Lola Perrin, with Y Yadavan on 21st May 2011 at the Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA. Click here to book tickets, or enter the competition to win 2 tickets to this one-night-only event.
May 10, 2011
Wandering star Chris Ashton can't sit still for 10 minutes
Evening Standard
Chris Ashton smiles when I ask him if he would like to become the David Beckham of rugby union. "Yeah, if it means I become the best winger in the game."
Then the Northampton back, who lit up England's rugby season, adds: "I'm a lad from Wigan, I'm very down to earth. I don't think I'll ever change."
Despite his trademark swallow dive when scoring a try, Ashton does not seek celebrity glory and is happy to let his rugby do the talking.
Chris Ashton smiles when I ask him if he would like to become the David Beckham of rugby union. "Yeah, if it means I become the best winger in the game."
Then the Northampton back, who lit up England's rugby season, adds: "I'm a lad from Wigan, I'm very down to earth. I don't think I'll ever change."
Despite his trademark swallow dive when scoring a try, Ashton does not seek celebrity glory and is happy to let his rugby do the talking.
May 9, 2011
QPR's owner is richer than Abramovich but they won't be competing against Chelsea in the transfer market
Insideworldfootball.biz
Queen's Park Rangers return to the Premiership will make their fans want to know is whether their rich owner will follow in the footsteps of Roman Abramovich. He is after all richer than Abramovich, indeed he is the richest man in Britain with a net worth of £24 billion ($39 billion).
But that's not how Lakshmi Mittal sees things. QPR will not be a passion for him as Chelsea is for the Russian and, ironic at it may seem, that should be of some comfort to the fans of the West London club.
QPR, as Mittal himself acknowledges, is a club with a "chequered past" and what a past. Located almost next door to the BBC, it has had the sort of drama that could well inspire one of the corporation's script writers. Since the club fell out of the Premiership in 1996, it has not only been in and out of administration but has had to cope with very unwelcome off the field headlines.
Queen's Park Rangers return to the Premiership will make their fans want to know is whether their rich owner will follow in the footsteps of Roman Abramovich. He is after all richer than Abramovich, indeed he is the richest man in Britain with a net worth of £24 billion ($39 billion).
But that's not how Lakshmi Mittal sees things. QPR will not be a passion for him as Chelsea is for the Russian and, ironic at it may seem, that should be of some comfort to the fans of the West London club.
QPR, as Mittal himself acknowledges, is a club with a "chequered past" and what a past. Located almost next door to the BBC, it has had the sort of drama that could well inspire one of the corporation's script writers. Since the club fell out of the Premiership in 1996, it has not only been in and out of administration but has had to cope with very unwelcome off the field headlines.
May 8, 2011
Exclusive: Arab Spring leaves Mido feeling flat
Insideworldfootball.biz
Mido, the Egyptian player, has hired renowned London lawyers Mishcon de Reya to overturn a FIFA decision which effectively stops him playing for eight months.
This follows a refusal to sanction his loan from Middlesbrough to Egyptian champions Zamalek.
The case will be heard in Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the highest judicial body in sport.
Mido, the Egyptian player, has hired renowned London lawyers Mishcon de Reya to overturn a FIFA decision which effectively stops him playing for eight months.
This follows a refusal to sanction his loan from Middlesbrough to Egyptian champions Zamalek.
The case will be heard in Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the highest judicial body in sport.
May 5, 2011
We must act to save Pakistan for democracy
Evening Standard
In the 1930s, as the British were trying to hold on to India, a violent uprising erupted in Bengal.
Such was the panic that English women stopped travelling on Calcutta's trams following reports that handkerchiefs contaminated with secretions of venereal diseases had been left on the seats. It led to George V asking the Bengal Governor: "What is wrong with Bengal?"
We now need to ask the same question about Pakistan.
In the 1930s, as the British were trying to hold on to India, a violent uprising erupted in Bengal.
Such was the panic that English women stopped travelling on Calcutta's trams following reports that handkerchiefs contaminated with secretions of venereal diseases had been left on the seats. It led to George V asking the Bengal Governor: "What is wrong with Bengal?"
We now need to ask the same question about Pakistan.
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