AHC Co-Ordinator, Tarachand Sharma Tarachand Sharma, Co-ordinator of Australian Hindi Committee (AHC) requests all the local Indian community to join in and support the issue of Hindi Education in Australia. AHC is holding Hindi stalls at CIA’s India Day Fair at Parramatta Park on August 7 and UIA’s India-Australia Friendship Fair 2011 on August 14 […]
Kersi Meher-Homji talks with her It is almost six weeks since I listened to the charming Sunanda Sharma swoon the audience with “thandee hawaayen” at Vinod Rajput’s Band Baajaa and still can’t stop humming that cool number. The 21 year-old Sunanda — Sunny to friends — has everything; hauntingly beautiful voice, winning personality and enchanting […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today” – Mahatma Gandhi The great Indian freedom fighter and apostle of non-violence made this observation more than six decades back. If Mahatma Gandhi returns to his ‘karma-bhoomi’ today, he may die another untimely death out of […]
Inner Space By Faith Harper No matter what happens in our lives laughter is always the best medicine. Lately, I have been watching Seinfeld DVDs and even though the jokes are nearly twenty years old they still stand up today. Here are some quotes from Seinfeld: Larry David(Co-creator and co-writer of Seinfeld), Jerry Seinfeld, […]
Jenny Brockie, presenter of Insight on SBS Popular forum program, Insight, returns for its second season of 2011 on Tuesday 26 July, at 7.30pm on SBS ONE. For its first episode, Insight looks at the boom in skilled migrants. Australia is in the midst of a resource rush and there simply aren’t enough suitable […]
Raju Varanasi By Rekha Rajvanshi Raju Varanasi is an Australian Fulbright Scholar. As the Director of the Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre, he promotes a culture of innovation and organisational learning across NSW Department of Education and Communities. Earlier, he was a Director in TAFE NSW for several years. Raju is an IIT graduate in […]
Dr Colin Yarham By Neena Badhwar When you meet Dr Colin Yarham you do not realize that he is 80 years old with an extended family, wife, children, grandkids in Australia and a life full of good times and bad times. Yet he leaves it all and goes and spends ten months out of the […]
Dipen Dhruv – Sleepless on Sydney Streets By Neena Badhwar Dipen Dhruv, CEO of Leapfrog Consulting – a management consulting company focusing on organizations that are going through technological transformation was not the CEO for one night but a homeless person on the streets of Sydney. Dipen Dhruv participated in St Vinnies Sleepout […]
(Sheba Nandkeolyar is the CEO of Multicall Connexions, the agency which has been selected by ABS Census Australia to communicate about the Census 2011 messages to all the multicultural communities. She is the marketing strategist and works closely with clients to target multicultural audiences.) Sheba Nandleokyar says that Census 2011 is […]
Paul Lowe, Head of the Australian Population Census program By Neena Badhwar Paul Lowe is the Head of the Australian Population Census program and is responsible for all aspects of the program from enumeration through to the dissemination of the results. He has over 20 years experience in census taking in Australia and […]