India and Sarla Bedis

Sarla Bedis: Sarla Bedis life spanned almost nine decades and three continents, and was shaped not only by her own circumstances but also by historic events such as the independence movements in India and Kenya. Born into the Kapila family in Sahnewal, India, she was a young child when her father decided to move his family to Kenya, searching for a better life during the Great Depression that swept the globe. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Growing up amid the Indian diaspora in Kenya, then a British colony, Sarla was exposed at an early age to struggles for social justice. The colony was governed under a policy of racial segregation, with separate schools, hospitals and residential areas for Indians, Africans and white Europeans. Sarla wanted to study law in England, but as the only daughter present in a family with five sons, an ailing mother and a father of limited means, she had to give up that dream at age 18 and Mother, grandmother, community reformer, Hindu priest. Born on April 4, 1925, in Sahnewal, India; died on Nov. 15, 2013, in Toronto, of hospital-acquired infections, aged 88. Submit a Lives Lived column (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.