By Neena Badhwar Samantha Gash, Australian lawyer-turned Marathon runner, is preparing to run across India in an ambitious ‘Run India’ marathon starting from Jaiselmer, Rajasthan and ending up in Shillong in the state of Assam. Samantha will be starting her run on August 22 and cover the approximate 4,000 kms in 77 days. Her […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee Lawyers here are all set to lodge a class action in the Australian Federal Court (AFC) on Thursday to demand freezing of the Chandigarh-based Pearl Group’s real estate assets in Australia. It has been alleged that Pearl Group was running a ponzi scheme which had swelled to over Rs 45,000 crore. India’s […]
This year the United Indian Association Inc. is offering its support to the Australian Football League (AFL) TOYOTA Multicultural Festival which is being held on July 9 from 11am to 7pm. There are lots of cultural items presented by various multicultural groups along with some Indian cultural items. President of UIA, John Kennedy says, “We […]
By Neena Badhwar Indian community is greying since the ones who came in the 60s and the 70s when Australia opened its door to Asians. The Indians who passed the immigration points, then, were mainly doctors, engineers and teachers. Now they make up the retiree force as they enter into their sixties, seventies and the […]
Dr. Meenakshi Srinivasan of The School of Vedic Sciences (Aust) Inc. with Gopal Subramaniam at Parravilla Function Centre “Celebrating our language, our culture in our multicultural Australia”, is the first ever Indian Community Languages Schools Parents & Teachers Conference in Australia held on June 19, 2016. […]
Hindi is now recognised in Australia as one of the five priority Asian languages for study in Australian schools. This is quite an achievement. However, a lot of work remains to be done to convince schools to introduce Hindi in their curriculum and to develop necessary […]
By Vijay Badhwar It was only an act on stage by two NSW parliamentarians in opposite camps, impromptu and impermanent, but an apt reminder on the second International Yoga Day that union of minds is a joyful experience, an occasion to celebrate the oneness even in our diversity. Jodi McKay, NSW Labor Member from Strathfield […]
Kersi Meher-Homji was entranced with Seema Bhardwaj’s melodic voice Recently I was at the Mukesh – Mohammed Rafi Mehfil presented by Vinod Rajput. As detailed in my previous story, it made me feel very nostalgic listening to old melodies sung by Vinod, Seema Bhardwaj and Kedar Pagaddinnimath. […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji Although the legendary playback singers Mukesh and Mohammed Rafi have passed away over three decades ago, they came back to life last Saturday, 18th of June, at a Mehfil orchestrated by Vinod Rajput at the residence of the Dugals in St Ives, Sydney. […]
Australia Telugu Samithi and Sydney Telugu Association jointly celebrated UGADI festival on May 7th at Bahai Centre, Silverwater. More than one thousand Telugu speaking people in Sydney participated in the event. The guests were welcomed by Dr. Bharathi Reddy (President, ATS) and Mr. Siva Sankar Peddibhotla (President, STA). The program was hosted by Masters of […]