By Piyushi Dhir
I have been gone too long from my blog. I didn’t even take a break this long when my son was born! Not only have I been missing writing, I’ve been missing being in touch with all of you- my readers. I miss your thoughtful comments and your words of encouragement. I’m back! After a […]
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Back when we were kids, my brother and I regularly celebrated Christmas hosted within the cantonment. Our father worked with the Indian Air Force and come Christmas, we would invariably meet with a jolly Indian Santa, often arriving on an IAF helicopter. Candies would be thrown out and gifts pre-purchased by our parents would be […]
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We may have spent the better part of the year in our new home, Canada. Yet just when we thought we had got a hang of things, we are experiencing how irrevocably our lives have changed as we see the onset of winter. We arrived in this country when spring was on the horizon. Little […]
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“So, what are you doing for Thanksgiving?” a Canadian friend asked me the other day. “What does one do?” I asked her back. She told me about family dinners and get-together’s, long walks and drives. We don’t have family here and long walks are limited owing to our toddler, but I immediately caught on to […]
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When you move your life from one part of the world to another, you often see a very big shift in culture. You hear new languages, see new ways of life and experience new festivals. Our first big move from India to Africa was rather cushioned because my husband’s employers housed us Indian families in […]
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As I was mentioning in my last post, a lot of new parents have been contacting me after reading my toddler’s immigration story. These are Canadian Permanent Residents who’ve had babies outside the country and are struggling with paperwork to bring their little ones to Canada. While exchanging stories back and forth and figuring out […]
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A couple of months ago, I had blogged about our immigration story in order to share our experience with the world. In particular, I had mentioned details about our son’s case, since he was born outside Canada (a non-PR) and faced difficulty getting a tourist visa to join us. For those of you who read […]
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I always knew I wanted to become a mother. I also always knew that I didn’t want to be a working mother, especially in the first few years of my child’s life. I wanted to be around, to watch my little one achieve his milestones, to hear his first words, to see him take his […]
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Just a couple of days ago I came across some statistics that revealed that almost half of the immigrants coming into Canada are Indian citizens. Wow, I thought to myself, a lot of us seem desperate to leave our native country and get here. Yet despite the charm of Canada, there is one complaint that […]
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A large chunk of Toronto’s population today is immigrant population. They may have come years ago, decades ago or centuries ago, but each immigrant brought with himself a part of his culture, cuisine and tradition. And this makes Toronto an amazing place to experience the world. You don’t need to travel miles across the Canadian […]
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