On Wednesday 13th November, Bolton College hosted ‘A Taste of Bolton: Master Chef Cook-off’, organised by the group ‘Women in Neighbourhoods’. Teams in three categories – Students, Community & Business – competed for the top prizes for Recipe & Taste and for Presentation of Food. The event was organised by Gulnaz Brennan, Chair of Women in...
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‘Being the Other’ – Book Review by Rita Payne
Rita Payne on a lament for a vanishing secular culture in India, one in which Muslims could feel comfortable There are three key messages one is left with after reading Saeed Naqvi’s perceptive and moving book on what it is like to be a Muslim in India today. First, at a time when Muslims are...
WiN launches A Taste of Harmony, Bolton Community Cookbook in partnership with Market Place Shopping Centre
Women in Neighbourhoods, joined forces with Market Place Bolton with support of Bolton College, Room Four Desserts and House of Raja’s to create the community recipe book. The Cookbook follows ‘A Taste of Harmony’ Masterchef event held at Bolton College earlier this year. It features local talented chefs and community cooks, students from Bolton College...
Book review of ‘The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain’
British ‘values’ or Muslim phobia? There’s a photograph from May 2010 of a beaming Sayeeda Warsi dressed in a salwaar-kameez and posing for photographers on the steps of 10, Downing Street after being appointed Britain’s first-ever Muslim woman Cabinet minister. It was hailed as a defining image of British multiculturalism, and David Cameron’s Tory “modernisation”...
Marrying Anita
Marrying Anita (Bloomsbury, £12.99) by Anita Jain is the story of a woman’s quest to find a husband in the New India and is a reflection on modern Indian society. Anita Jain is an Indian-American journalist who returns to the land of her parents, after having been fatigued and disheartened by the American dating game,...
A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes
Embarking on a new book about India must be daunting as so much has been written about this vast mosaic of a country; its teeming population; rich, vibrant history; and diversity of religions and culture. It must have been even more of a challenge for Sam Miller, a former BBC correspondent and later senior manager...
‘Fury’ by Salman Rushdie BOOK REVIEW
Fury by Salman Rushdie Book Review by Gulnaz Brennan Fury, Rushdie’s eighth novel is a love story. It is a novel of an old, deep love gone wrong, of a second, twisted passion rooted in wrongness, and of a third, passionate love that might just turn out right. It is also a murder mystery! Ex-Professor,...