Ranj dhaliwal biography
- Which was a time when Indo-Canadian families were scattered across the suburbs.
- A Canadian author of Indian descent, he is best known for his 2006 novel, Daaku, and its sequel, Daaku: The Gangster's Life (2011).
- Ranj Dhaliwal is a Canadian author.
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'Daaku'
A Local Community in Turmoilby TIMOTHY TAYLOR
1: DAAKU
There was a notable book launch in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, in the spring of 2006. It heralded the publication of the novel Daaku, by a thirty-year-old writer named Ranj Singh Dhaliwal. The book - about early-'90s Indo-Canadian gang activity in Surrey and Vancouver - is arguably an important novel, although the literary establishment wasn't on hand to help celebrate.
Of course, the launch was a little off the beaten track by CanLit standards. It wasn't held in a bookstore or independent coffee shop, but at Central City, a mega-pub in the Surrey Central Mall. And the crowd, too, would have been unfamiliar to many book launch veterans: a demographically sexy batch of young people, numbering nearly a hundred. Yes indeed, people in their twenties.
And not a bookish crowd either. More gold chains and ball caps, more short skirts. More tuners and SUVs in the parking lot. Certain
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Ranj Dhaliwal (Randheer Singh) (born July 14, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Indo-Canadian author, who published the gangster novel Daaku.
Sikhism more less
Ranj Dhaliwal was initiated into Khalsa (Sikhism) on December 29, 2007. Dhaliwal is an active member in the Sikh community. He does seva (selfless service) trying to re-unite the Sikh community.
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Ranj Dhaliwal's debut novel, Daaku, tells the tale of a young Indo-Canadian gangster growing up in the streets of Surrey, BC, Canada. The novel is about the rise and eventual fall of a gangster, and was noted and reviewed in the Canadian literary press, and even hailed as "an important novel" in the Canadian magazine The Walrus.
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Ranj Dhaliwal was born in Vancouver. He grew up and continues to live in Surrey, British Columbia. His knowledge of the Indo-Canadian communities informs his first two thrillers.
Fiction
Daaku: A Novel
Vancouver: New Star Books, 2006.
PS8607.H35 D33 2006
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
In the violent and ruthless world of Indo-Canadian gangs, Ruby Pandher is on his way up. A self-described daaku (Punjabi for outlaw), Ruby learns young that might, in the form of his drunken father’s fists, is right and that money is easier to steal than earn. Ruby’s small-time scams reveal a knack for leadership and after his first stint in youth detention, the big-timers start to notice his potential.
A story of betrayal, cold-blooded murder and the rise and eventual fall of one gangster, Daaku is a bullet-riddled grand tour of Indo-Canadian gangland.
Fiction
Daaku: The Gangster’s Life
Vancouver: New Star Books, 2011.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Daaku: The Gangster’s Life picks up the story of Indo–Canadian gangster Ruby
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