By Rekha Bhattacharjee Buoyed by the number of Indian tourists flocking to Australia, an influential tourism promotional body has asked the Australian government to invest $1 billion to attract more visitors from India and other Asian countries in the next decade. Besides India, the Tourism and Transport Forum (TTF) has also urged the federal […]
Akshita Mohan By Neena Badhwar May may be the month of Australian Fashion Week yet many of us love Sari. It makes one feel special in every way as compliments not only come from one’s own family and friends but general Aussies too who love the colour, the texture and the whole look of it. […]
Groundswell, a committee founded for the development of diversity in the Australian arts and Media, today and tomorrow hold their Multicultural Arts Forum 2012, at Carriageworks in Eveleigh, Sydney. Topics to be discussed include ‘Do we need a voice for the multicultural arts sector in NSW’, ‘Professional and Community Arts Practice, The Interconnections’ and ‘Audience […]
A Gujarati movie shot at Sydney locations by Vipul Vyas with Sydneysiders cast as many characters with storyline revolving around migrant experiences in a foreign land. It will be screened at Riverside Theatre Parramatta on April 28 and at Wetherill Park Hoyts on april 29, May 5 & 6. A must see for all.
Vipul Vyas and Druma Mehta Vipul with Mahkasha Ansari Shooting for a song sequence By Neena Badhwar “Making the film ‘Pardesh Ek Sapanu’ was a journey of 14 years since when I came to Australia as it has been on my mind for that long to make a film which depicts the stories of our […]
Mrs Bimla Singh with her famous Balushahi Mrs Bimla Singh has been feeding us Balushahi for the last thirty years in Sydney and they are so popular that we all asked her for recipe as now she is 80 years old unless the recipe may be left a secret. Singhs came to Australia in the […]
Australian buyer (second from left) meets L-R: Mr J. Rao Palagummi, Trade Promotion Officer of the General Consulate of India, Sydney; Mr Amit Dasgupta, Consul General of India, Sydney, and Ms Vaishali Zinzumwadia, Regional Manager of CHEMEXCIL On Friday 16 March, CHEMEXCIL, sponsored by the Government of India, hosted a Buyer Seller Meet at NSW […]
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma 20th Anniversary of WOMADelaide has an impressive Indian line up. Pandit Shivkumar Sharma on Santoor, Shantala Shivalingappa in Kuchipudi, Parvyn Kaur Singh of Bombay Royale Music Group singing nostalgic Bollywood numbers from the 60s and the 70s and Chris Finnen, a guitar virtuoso, whose music has an Indian influence. Womadelaide is Australia’s […]
Neha Reddy Beginning in January 2012, Supa Secrets kid’s snack bars held a National competition to encourage teenagers between the ages of 13-17yrs to try their product and to think about what talents and creativity they have that make them the special people they are. There were several $500 weekly winners and one major prize […]
Members of the IITians Association of Australia (IITAA) elected a new executive committee for the year 2012 in the recently held Annual General Meeting on 11 Dec 2011 in Sydney. The outgoing president Dr. Ashok Manglick opened the AGM and was followed by a detailed report by the Secretary Mr. Inderjeet Singh Virdi, on the […]