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Sydney Music Festival to be held this coming weekend June 9-11

Lalgudi GJR Krishnan with sister Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi A great Carnatic music fest in the heart of Parramatta! Sydney Music Festival, Swaralaya Fine Arts Society’s fifth year classical Music Festival – an ultimate experience of music by popular artists from the Indian subcontinent will be held this year at the Riverside Theatre Parramtta Cnr Church St […]

Consulate General of India runs “Running for India” contest!

If you love India and if you love to run, the CGI Sydney have a small and informal contest for the community! If you participate in the Sydney Running Festival (any of the four runs on 16 September 2012), or in the City2Surf run (12 August 2012) – while wearing a T-shirt with a prominent […]

Extras needed for Around The Block

Jack Thompson and Ruby Rose Christina Ricci Voom Management P/l located at North Sydney is looking for some Indian looking teenagers aged 15-18 years  for paid background extras work on a Feature film called “Around the Block”. It also requires some adults. The extras are needed for  Around the Block, a low-budget feature film starring […]

Hurry! Hurry!! Hurry!!! A double pass give away for Jai Bhim Comrade only today!

Here is  a competition  only for today to win a double pass to Thursday 7th Screening of JAI BHIM COMRADE at Dendy Opera Quays at 7:35pm. Win a double pass to SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL screening of JAI BHIM COMRADE which plays Thursday 7th 7:35pm June, Dendy Opera Quays. To enter please email competitions@sff.org.au your name […]

Gangs of Wasseypur in Sydney Film Festival (June 17 12.15pm and 3.35pm shows)

Manoj Bajpai with Huma Qureshi   Anurag Kashyap’s epic, selected for Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2012 and   in SFF’s Official competition along with 12 other movies with a $60,000 prize for the winner,   is being screened on Sunday. Its a two part film of 5 and a half hour duration.   Indian community is […]

Health care while travelling overseas

Reciprocal Health Care Agreements (RHCA) Do you know that as Australian citizens you are entitled to medical assistance in some countries when travelling overseas. Medicare benefits are not available for treatment received overseas, however the Australian Government has signed Reciprocal Health Care Agreements (RHCA) with a number of countries. This means that as an Australian […]

DUMB, DRUNK & RACIST … are we really?

Gurmeet, Mahima, Joe, Radhika and Amer with ‘do you want to pash an Indian sign’ in Melbourne Series premiere Wednesday 20 June at 9.30pm on ABC2 Are Australians dumb, drunk  and racist as they have been portrayed since the spat with Indian students a couple of years ago when Indian media went berserk reporting cases […]

Exhibition spreads Kindness through Canberra

RMIT Gallery’s exhibition, Kindness/Udarta. Australia-India Cultural Exchange, will open in Canberra tomorrow (31 May), as part of the Australia-India Council’s 20th anniversary celebrations. More than 117 writers and visual artists from Australian and India are involved in the exhibition, along with more than 23 musicians. RMIT Gallery Director Suzanne Davies said that the response in […]

Sachin scales Mount Everest at last

Sachin Tendulkar: 100th was my toughest… By Kersi Meher-Homji After 33 innings in England, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Australia in 370 days, master batsman Sachin Tendulkar went from 99 to 100 international centuries on 16 March. AT LONG LAST! It was a prolonged period but worth the wait as expectations reached fever pitch from […]

India’s GVK joins raging Australian debate on foreign workers

GVK’s Vice-Chairman   Sanjay Reddy By Rekha Bhattacharjee Sydney, May 29, 2012  (IANS) Hours after winning the nod for one of the largest coal mining projects in Australia, India’s GVK Group has joined the raging debate on using foreign workers in various Australian resources projects. “Our priority is offering locals and other Australians the opportunity […]