By Neena Badhwar At the Premier’s Harmony Gala Dinner on March 21, Premier Gladys Berejiklian honoured community members with medals for their contributions they have worked and striven for the betterment of life in Australia. The dinner is an enthusiastic showcase of the strong and vibrant multicultural community of NSW. Attended by a good 800 […]
The World’s largest festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney, is back for its 10th year with a stellar festival program launched today by Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Tourism and Major Events Adam Marshall. “Each Vivid Sydney Program continues to outshine the last and 2018 will be no different with special designs […]
Remember the days when all of us who travelled to India via Singapore used to talk about Singapore airport, the service, the automated expansive operation and its state of the art aesthetics. That one felt like stopping over in Singapore for an experience and of course the shopping and food. Well India, today, can be […]
By Sudha Kumar Sydney siders have witnessed their fair share of Bharatanatyam Arangetrams (solo classical dance debuts) in recent years. But once in a way there comes along a danseuse who performs not just for an audience and not just for a show. Priya’s was one such. Priya Murali of Samskriti School of Dance […]
By Devaki Parathsarthy Remember when everything was hand written? When letters went via post. Handwritten invoices were received on paper, paid and filed in large box files? Trial Balances and ledgers done by hand with red and black pens? Remember when you had to cook on the stove? Buy vegies and cut them, cook them […]
Stephen Hawking, well-known physicist and author of ‘A Brief History of Time – From the Big Bang to Black Holes’, published in 1988, passed away at the age of 76 on March 14, 2018. Although 76 years can be termed as brief stay on earth, Hawking with his debilitating condition of Motor Neurone Disease, gave […]
By Neena Badhwar Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar came and won Sydneysiders by acting the love story, struggle of talented writer, actor couple of Bollywood – Kaifi and Shaukat Azmi. They happen to be Shabana’s parents and the play ‘Kaifi and Me’ titled ‘Kaifi Aur Main’ is based on book written by Shaukat in memory […]
By Neeru Saluja With a strong belief that music has the power to speak to the soul, the sitar queen Anoushka Shankar, daughter of great virtuoso Ravi Shankar, proved her belief by connecting to us with her deeply expressive music. At a houseful concert at Sydney Opera House attended by classical music lovers, the global […]
By Neeru Saluja When the best of poetry, literature and acting is integrated with melodious music, every art lover is in for a treat. As the stars of ‘Kaifi and Main’ Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Jaswinder Singh and Ramesh Talwar came together for the press conference ahead of the show, the media enjoyed a stimulating […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji Although not understanding a word of Bengali I always have a passion for Bangla music as my musical heroes are Pankaj Mullick and Hemant Kumar. I can still recall some of the words of Pankaj’s songs from the Bengali movie Yatrik, seen over fifty years ago. So when I heard about Songs […]