By Neena Badhwar Patrick Farmer, Australia’s Ultra Marathon runner, is in India running a daunting journey from Kanyakumari to Kashmir covering 4,600 km in about 60 days. We remember the famous 250km ‘Dandi March’ by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 to protest against the British rule […]
By Manju Mittal As a migrant, a writer and a reader I share the history and stories of other migrants, perhaps, to explore my own feelings about migration. Australia is a multicultural nation with 44 per cent of its population born overseas or with a parent […]
Love detective Rajani Pandit, Dateline, Tuesday, 8 March at 9.30pm on SBS. Dateline reveals the extraordinary work of India’s lady detectives who go undercover to help young and old navigate the future of love and marriage. In the age of Facebook and Whatsapp, old and new worlds collide, […]
By Neeru Saluja Actress Vega Tamotia is not your typical conventional actress. Brought up in Sydney, she has played lead roles in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. She rose to fame with the Tamil film ‘Saroja’ and her film ‘Pasanga’ won two National Awards. Her latest film was screened at Cannes and she also […]
By Manju Mittal Men sitting bare- chested, in Mundu ( dhoti ) women draped in silk sarees and wearing flower benis in their hair, start trickling in a steady stream at Toongabie’s Sakthi temple where the annual puja and Pathayathra for Lord Ayyappa was being held on Sunday December 27, 2015. The idol is decked […]
Indian-origin British director Asif Kapadia won an Oscar for his movie ‘Amy’ as the Best documentary Fetature Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra wasn’t the only highlight of Oscar night 2016 on February 28, for India””or even South Asia. The star of American television show Quantico, of course, did […]
Manju Mittal ‘Feast of Varanasi’ directed by UK based director Rajan Kumar Patel will receive its world premiere at the 18th London Asian Film Festival on 5 March 2016. Just as the title of the film suggests, the thriller provides a visual feast of the great northern Indian city of Varanasi – the spiritual capitol […]
By Manju Mittal Adil Hussain, who hails from Aasam, has established himself as a versatile performer through a varied range of films such Life of Pie, English Vinglish, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Ishqiya, Main Aur Charles, Lootera and Sunrise. Since his childhood, he has acted in many plays […]
Australia is missing out on the skills and experience of tens of thousands of highly qualified women who arrive as the spouses or partners of skilled migrants because they struggle to find work, new research has found. A qualitative survey canvassing the views of 63 new migrant women arriving […]
Hardik Pandya bowled 3 for 8 in 3.3 overs By Kersi Meher-Homji In the inaugural Twenty20 Asia Cup match currently played in Bangladesh, India beat traditional rivals Pakistan by five wickets on Saturday (27 February). Sent in to bat by India’s skipper MS Dhoni on a […]