Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) is celebrated on 9 January every year to mark the contribution of Overseas Indian community in the development of India. January 9 was chosen as the day to celebrate this occasion since it was on this day in 1915 that Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest Pravasi, returned to India from South […]
By Manju Mittal The Council of Indian Australians Inc. (CIA) organised a Diwali Fair on Saturday, 22nd October 2016 at the Castle Hill Showground. Despite the gloomy and cold weather people gathered in large numbers to enjoy the festive spirit. The event attracted people of different communities and ethnicity to a celebration that everyone looks […]
Neena Badhwar Diwali was hosted by Premier Baird and John Ajaka, Minister for Multicultural Affairs last week with community leaders and other important community members, volunteers invited to witness Opera House sails light up in orange glow as the dusk turned into dark. The view from the venue […]
ABC Radio’s special events station ABC Extra will showcase content from the Confluence Festival of India in Australia from October 23-31. The channel, which is broadcasting around the clock, includes festival highlights and original ABC radio content, to celebrate the culture and stories of India and the interchange between the Indian and Australian communities. The […]
Vipassana Meditators who have benefited from this ancient art of observing life and cleansing old samskaras creating an environment in the devotee of ‘anichha’ that is equanimity, stand up by it with total conviction. In ancient language of ‘Pali’ Vipassana means ‘to see things as they really are’. It is a technique of self-discovery which […]
10th ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS Brisbane: Six films from India have secured eight major nominations in the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Indian film Psycho Raman also received a total of three nominations for Best Performance by an Actor for Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Achievement in Cinematography for Jay Oza and Achievement in Directing […]
By Manju Mittal Hindu Council of Australia (HCA) held a successful Diwali Fair at Parramatta Park on Sunday October 23, 2016. A large number of people came together to celebrate one of the most vibrant and largest festival of India. Diwali -the festival of lights is perhaps the one festival that elicits the most mixed […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji If you are a cricket lover living in Sydney, you should be at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). And soon! Now! The eye-catching and rare cricket exhibition ends on Thursday the 27th October. As a part of Confluence- Festival of India in […]
Celebration of Deepavali on November 13 2016 at 10.45am for 11.00am start Deepavali (or Diwali), the Festival of Lights, which is unquestionably India’s biggest festival, will be celebrated at 11.00am Mass at St Mary’s Church, corner of Miller and Ridge Streets, North Sydney, on November 13. To be comfortably seated before the start of […]
By Sumi Krishnan It is undeniably the age of the Bollywood. Nothing wrong with that. Occasionally, witnessing evenings such as today, 22 October 2016, my faith is restored in the beauty of the artform of Bharathanatyam. Hailing from the pages of several centuries of practice and tradition, it can never die for its force […]