I'm sure all these protest rallies - in India, and the diaspora, - do contribute to raising both public and governmental awareness, but.....doesn't it give you a sense of deja vu?
Rather, like Santayana's ad nauseam "those who forget the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them...", nine years after the last similar protest rally in Toronto, not only have we made no progress, but things appear to have gotten progressively worse. Do these rallies matter? Speaking of deja vu, look what we turned up, from a decade ago: http://www.gnatoronto.com/eugene.jpg Aluta continua! Francis. ---------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 Eugene Correia wrote: Subject: Re: [Goanet] Rally in Toronto It was not the first time a rally such as this one has been held in Toronto. After the Staines murder in 1999, the South Asian Christian Forum (mostly made of Protestant groups, specially belong to the Church of North India) asked me to chair a committee for the organization of a rally at the Nathan Phillips Square....... Eugene Correia _________________________________________________________________