Sidhu Moosewala who started with music in 2017 at Brampton, had written a number 'B-Town' which was a tribute to the Canadian city.
Brampton, the Canadian city from where Shubhdeep Singh alias Sidhu Moosewala took baby steps in the world of pop and rap, paid tributes to the slain singer Thursday, with the planting of a sapling in his memory.
The plaque installed with the plant reads: “In loving memory of Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu… Sidhu Moosewala… legends never die.”
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Patrick Brown, Mayor of Brampton, in a tweet said: “We planted a tree in the memory of late Sidhu Moose Wala earlier today at Susan Fennel Sportsplex. His legacy lives on in our city.”
Sidhu Moosewala who started with music in 2017 at Brampton, had written a number ‘B-Town’ which was a tribute to the Canadian city. A hub of international students with several colleges and universities around, Brampton embraced Moosewala’s Punjabi music and there was no looking back.
The plaque installed with the plant reads: “In loving memory of Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu… Sidhu Moosewala… legends never die.”
Speaking toThe Indian Express, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, regional councillor, Brampton, said that the area where the tree has been planted in Moosewala’s memory is frequently visited by international students. “This is where Moosewala also used to come very often. Students here love him. We decided to plant a tree in his memory so that he continues to live for people of Brampton, a city that made him..”
Dhillon said that Moosewala’s mother Charan Kaur had also requested her son’s fans to keep him alive by planting trees in his memory. “We just followed his mother’s appeal,” said Dhillon.
Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab.
Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab.
She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC.
She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012.
Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab.
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