- Ricky’s Death
- A drive-by shooting in a stripmall parking lot. A white SUV behind caution tape with a dozen shots fired through the driver’s side of the windshield
- 39-year-old pronounced dead on the scene
- the car drove, got shot and then slowed down until crashing into another car
- Why Write This Book?
- Sikhs are 2% of the Canadian population, and most Indian immigrants are Sikh now - #1 source of immigration
- Sikhs will form a big portion of Canadian society and thus, so will second generation Sikhs
- The theme of my life will still echo outwards in new ways
- Second generation Sikh identity in Canada
- Framing: Between worlds. Creating my own world. Sikh Male Identity in Canada. Social Class. Culture. Immigration
- Parent’s story ending in my birth
- Set the scene for how rural Punjab works
- Dad born and early life until truck driving
- Mom’s life - baba drug dealing until gets set to be married
- Married in India
- Marriage day short leg story
- Mom left in new house while dad works
- Dad left for Canada and Mom stayed
- Dad’s life as a refugee
- Mom’s arrival
- My birth and pre-memory
- Dad being in India during my birth - received a telegram
- Conflict with dad’s parents
- Life at Kipling
- Dad’s muggings
- Kipling ethnic makeup
- Drew Macgregor
- Early years at Garfella
- Meeting Aaqib - shooting snakes in holes
- Grade 6-7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
- Grade 10-12
- York
- Air Canada
- Flying to see Sonam and sleeping on the couch
- Aaqib fight
- Rob ford saga and connection
- Travel
- Aaqib reconciling
- Getting drunk in Hans basement and getting trapped in the recording booth blackout walking
- Management
- Laura
- Going to her grandfather’s cabin and seeing a second floor be an entire wrap around bookcase
- Doctors parents
- Not being able to communicate with my parents
- Taking her to a dodgy motel in the middle of town that was rundown and hosting refugees
- Getting mistaken for a scooper
- Montreal
- Immigrant like my parents again in a weird wat
- Laura noticed someone see m in a mcdonalds and start praying
- Sarah
- Potato
- gang
- high school
- uni with aaqib \
Unsorted:
- being in a nagar kirtan and hearing khalistan zimdabad for the first time
- I fell for Stella Artois marketing and thought it was fancier and my friends thought it suited my personality
- Lake Nippissing is a small dynamic university on the PA but never heard of it
- Ena and we all touched her ass and she said she would date me if i shaved my beard
- Learning about Indian loan words - loot comes from lutna
Man dead after shooting in Rexdale | CP24.com
When he died, Hans texted us to see if we remembered him. His nickname was Ricky. His second nickname was Scarface for the two gruesome scars he had on each cheek from two separate knife fights.
He was my neighbour in childhood and he’d been shot two days prior in a stripmall. His younger brother and I used to be in a gang together.
I was friends with his brother and I there was a time I would’ve doe anything to become better friends. There was a time I’d cry with him, or get riled up and pretend I could do anything about it for him. But now I was 500 km away in Montreal. A different city, language and life. And I didn’t call home, not even to say I was sorry. But why?