By Melvin Durai Cricket is the most popular sport in India, but is there a chance that it could one day become the most popular food, too? Probably not, but don’t be surprised if cricket consumption increases considerably over the next few decades. I’m referring, of course, to the insects known as crickets, those noisy […]
Mind Blowing films releases in December during Christmas and in January 2018”¦ ARTH : THE DESTINATION RELEASE DATE: 21 December 2017 STARRING: Shaan Shahid, Humaima Malick, Mohib Mirza, Uzma Hassan LANGUAGE: Pakistani (With English Subtitles) SYNOPSIS: Strengthening film trade between the two countries, Arth 2 is a remake of Mahesh Bhatt’s Arth from 1982. This […]
A teenage girl from India, Nitisha Negi, has tragically drowned at a popular Adelaide beach on Sunday, December 10, 2017. Nitisha had been visiting Australia to play soccer at the Pacific School Games, when she and four other teammates got into trouble on Sunday. The 15-year-old’s body was recovered near the breakwater at Glenelg Beach […]
Deakin University’s Dr. Rangam Rajkhowa has been awarded 2018-19 Australia-India EMCR fellowship December 12, 2017. Australian scientists researching emerging mosquito-borne diseases, drug resistant tuberculosis and childhood type 1 diabetes are among the latest recipients of 2018–19 Australia–India Early- and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Fellowships announced today by the Australian Academy of Science. The EMCR Fellowships are […]
Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s S Durga, previously called Sexy Durga, is among the two films which has been dropped by the I&B Ministry from being screened at the IFFI 2017. The other film is Nude. By Sudha Kumar Two films – ‘Nude’ (Marathi) and ‘Sexy Durga’ (Malayalam) were dropped by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry […]
By Neena Badhwar Mera Wo Matlab Nahi Tha, a play brought to Sydney by Actor Prepares, Mumbai, is an interesting play that moves back and forth in time though it opens up to a scene in the present about a couple who meet in the park 35 years hence. They were in love in their […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji It is not easy to follow two Tests played simultaneously in Australia and India on TV. But the time difference of five and half hours enables one to watch them, firstly, a Test in Australia then the one in India with very few TV remote control switches. But as the Adelaide […]
Sunny Pawar as young Saroo Brierly (left) and at Oscars 2017 (right) finally won the Best Actor Award at AACTA ceremony last night Lion – A Long Way From Home, a movie based on Saroo Brierly’s heart rending story of an orphan boy adopted by an Australian family at age 6 who goes looking for […]
By Neeru Saluja She is bold, feisty and outspoken. Actress Richa Chaddha, who played the deadly female don Bholi Punjaban in Fukrey makes a comeback in comedy with Fukrey Returns. Richa Chaddha, who is known for portraying strong roles in hard hitting films like Masaan, Sarabjit and Gangs of Wasseypur, loves to show her other […]
By Vijay Badhwar Journalist Karan Thapar, known for upsetting PM Modi by questioning his secular credentials, repeatedly asked former US President Barack Obama at the Hindustan Leadership Summit held in New Delhi on December 1, for character referencing the Indian PM, which the statesman leader adroitly sidestepped. While there was another famous American in the […]