Kersi Meher-Homji asks I appreciate electronics and their advantages. But I am thinking of job situations. Earlier this week 115 journalists were made redundant by Fairfax. It is an ongoing problem across many professions. Let’s peep to year 2050. Only job securities will be for architects, surgeons, biological scientists, engineers, doctors, lawyers and teachers. However, […]
By Vijay Badhwar The International Film Festival and Awards of Australia (IFFAA) scheduled to be held in Sydney on May 13 has been cancelled following an uproar in the community alleging the platform will be used for anti-India propaganda and in support of extremist views on Kashmir. The festival was replete with top Bollywood stars […]
May 5, 2017. It took five years for Nirbhaya (her real Name Jyoti Singh Pandey) to get justice, the 23-year-old medical student gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi, today when Supreme Court confirmed death by gallows for the four convicts. Doctors in a Singapore hospital where Nirbhaya was flown for treatment said […]
Rahul Mehrotra with Dean of the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW, Helen Lochhead By Vijay Badhwar Renowned Indian architect, urban designer and professor, Rahul Mehrotra, is in town and delivered an interesting talk last night, May 2, 2017, as part of Utzon Lectures at the University of NSW. The talk was not about permanent […]
Saroo and Sue Brierley Sydney Writers’ Festival will be held from 22-28 May 2017. Comprising of more than 300 events SWF is a literature rich festival in the month of May as winter sets in. It is accessible to a wide range of audiences with an objective that presents many events for free and some […]
Indian Cultural Centre, Consulate General of India, Sydney cordially invites you and your family for a talk on “Living Well with Yoga and Nutrition” on May 20, 2017 Saturday, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Indian Cultural Centre, Level 2, 265 Castlereagh Street, Sydney 2000. A yoga session for children will be conducted parallel […]
Kushwant Singh (2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian columnist, novelist, writer and a journalist. Excerpts from Kushwant Singh’s book: ‘The Low-down on life, death & most things in-between.” Penguin Death is rarely spoken about in our homes. I wonder why. Especially when each of us knows that death has to come, […]
By Neeru Saluja The cultures of eight countries is coming to you right here. Thanks to the Australian South Asian Forum (ASAF), Australia will have its first South Asia specific integrated Film, Arts and Literature festival. The launch of the South Asian Film, Arts and Literature Festival (SAFAL) will take place on 20-21 May 2017 […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee Sydney, April 30 (IANS): The Third Japan-Australia-India Trilateral Dialogue meeting between senior representatives from India, Japan and Australia has concluded in Canberra Saturday even as the foreign affairs commentators continue to express doubts over the revival of a wider quadrilateral grouping also involving the US. The Third Japan-Australia-India Trilateral Dialogue Senior Officials […]
Gurinder with her uncle Balwant Chadha in Sydney. She is here to promote her film ‘Viceroy’s House’, a movie that reveals a new angle to India-Pakistan partition. By Neeru Saluja She’s known for her light comedy films, but this time, director Gurinder Chadha depicts the most decisive moment in India’s history – the partition. After […]