The Bradman Museum & Foundation will donate the takings from the Bradman Museum for the 1 and 2 May (up to $10,000) to the UNICEF Australia India COVID-19 Crisis Fund. The Bradman Museum Foundation has also established an online call to action – the Bradman India COVID Appeal – to help the cricket community raise […]
By Neena Badhwar As you walk into the hall the song with the words that float in your ears ‘जीवन का मतलब तोआना और जाना है, दो पल के जीवन से इक उमà¥à¤° चà¥à¤°à¤¾à¤¨à¥€ है’ beautiful Khushboo Chopra is singing. The message is quite profound. It is a sad start to days of distressing scenes […]
By Neena Badhwar This was a ‘night out’, girls not painting the town red but stranded on an Indian railway station, in a ladies’ waiting room, as you know the trains in India are forever known to be late, this one delayed by six hours. It is raining heavily, lightening and all, all stuck in […]
By Neeru Saluja With a dream to place Indian home cooking on a global platform, MasterChef contestant Depinder Chhibber is here to stay. A creative and experimental cook, Depinder is smiling her way through the contest impressing the judges with her versatile dishes. Depinder’s cooking journey started from learning traditional recipes from her mum to […]
By Vijay Badhwar It was in 1996, probably, that I went for my first 10-day Vipassana meditation in Blackheath. I had heard about the life-changing meditation from my role model uncle (who died recently from COVID in Detroit). May be it was his memory that drove me to register again for another 10-day course in […]
By Taufeeq Ahmed Sheikh Directed by Mark Nagle, ‘A Passage to India’ gives the audience an insight of the 1920 era of British Raj and prevailing attitudes in India, while also touching on the intertwined socio economic behaviours amongst the then pluralistic Indians. Premiering in Sydney, by Genesian Theatre Company (GTC), ‘A Passage to India’ […]
Hindu Council Australia (HCA) is working hard and seeking donations to help Indians stricken with the deadly virus with daily cases that have moved up into the official figures of hundreds of thousands. The virus is an angry one, hides and then comes back mutated, and in more potent form. There is no respite as […]
By Neena Badhwar Everyone is concerned about the sad situation to do with Covid-19, the virus which is being termed as the double mutant B.1.617 with its killer journey through out India. Indians here in Australia are talking about family members and people they know infected with the second, and the third variant that has […]
The Morrison Government has agreed a number of new measures to protect Australians from the increased risk of the COVID-19 outbreak in India, while also providing significant new support to assist the Indian Government in their humanitarian response. Said Mr.Morrison, “We recognise the challenging COVID-19 crisis that India is currently battling and we stand ready […]
By Neena Badhwar Karam Chand Ramrakha, a prominent Sydney lawyer, former Fijian Member of Parliament and a contemporary of leading political lights, Siddiq and Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, passed away on April 17 at Sydney’s Mater hospital. Karam’s columns as Fiji Diary in The Indian Down Under newspaper, his analysis on Fijian politics, the coups, […]