Muhammad Ali Bukhari from Toronto writes for DOT :
The Bangla “Begum Para” originally derived from Urdu “Begumpura”, literally “colony of wives” in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), particularly in Mississauga, where thousands of South Asian women, mostly from Pakistan, live with their children while their husbands work in the Middle East. They immigrated to Canada as families, but men failing to find jobs in their professions, moved to the Middle East. Others, already living there, arranged an opportunity for the families under Canadian immigration system. However, they all struggle with the challenges of loneliness, single-parenting, long-distance marriage and the fear of spousal betrayal, a foreign bureaucracy and a new culture. On this, “Begumpura: The Wives Colony”, a film produced and directed by Rashmi Lamba that aired on local OMNI TV in September, 2010, and later covered in the Toronto Star on May 28, 2011 as ‘Colony of wives’ thrives in Mississauga by Raveena Aulakh. That eventually afterward recreated by a Bangladeshi journalist, Shaugat Ali Sagor, with injecting “wives from Bangladesh” in his article, which he admitted to this correspondent recently as news broke of money launderings from Bangladesh to Canada. Since then, presumably a reversal delusion propagated among Bangladeshis for those who given a future for the families with their dirty money, otherwise no “Begum Para” exist here.