Category archives for: Community

Sri Om Care launches its project on long day and short term overnight  respite care for elderly

                    Sri Om Care has been running now, 10 years hence, through seven day care centres in Sydney metropolitan area for the Indian elderly where 400 people a week come and enjoy social platform as well as participate in activities that keep them happy, healthy and […]

$188,100 penalty for underpaying trolley pushers who were paid a paltry $5 an hour

                A former company director and his operations manager have been penalised a total of $188,100 for their role in underpaying 10 Adelaide trolley collectors more than $220,000. The penalty, handed down by Justice Anthony Besanko in the Federal Court, ends more than five years of action by […]

Ek Shaam Lata Ke Naam: A nostalgic trip down music lane

                  Sadiq Rehmani, Rucha Lange, Pushpa Jagdish and Riaz Shah sang memorable Lata songs By Manju Mittal ‘Lata – As we remember her’ was a splendid Saturday evening on 27th February 2016 at Castle Hill High School hall when it overflowed with Lata fans. Packed audience lapped […]

Benny Dayal makes Sydney go Bang Bang!

By Neeru Saluja Singer Benny Dayal does not only sing. He can dance, prance and rock the stage like a rockstar. When he came to Sydney for a show organised by Friends India Entertainment, he proved to be a surprise package to music lovers. Benny Dayal rose to fame after working with music maestro AR […]

Deyaan Udani: Sydney’s youngest organ donor who saved four lives

              Udanis with Deyaan and Naisha By Manju Mittal I had an overwhelming emotional meeting with the family of organ donor Deyaan at their residence in Sydney before I penned my heartfelt tribute to the young hero of Sydney. We all live an ideal dream of a world full […]

P A Sangma as I knew him

                  By Rekha Bhattacharjee March 4th 2016 saw the passing away of a great stalwart of the North East India. His calling was politics – although a lawyer by profession and a journalist too. He became the Vice President of Youth Congress in 1973. Four years later […]

India runs with Pat Farmer

                    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 […]

Maritime Museum welcomes migrant stories

                  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 […]

India’s Love Detectives

              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, […]

Ayyappa festival in Sydney

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 […]