By Rekha Bhattacharjee The Australia-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement permits Australian companies to commence commercial uranium exports to India, an important milestone in Australia’s relationship with India, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a media release. While previous Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott was quite gung-ho about the supply of uranium to India, current incumbent […]
Sydney’s Vega Tamotia in ‘Chittagong’ By Manju Mittal Bedabarata Pain’s National Award winning film ‘Chittagong’ was screened at Riverside theatre at Parramasala Festival Parramatta on 24th October, 2015. The screening of the film was a part of the Parramsala and was attended by a select Sydney audience. […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji As Australians were obsessed with the inaugural day-night pink ball Test in Adelaide, India’s off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was slicing through South Africa’s strong batting line up in Nagpur. He captured 7 for 66 in the second innings and 12 for 98 in the Test as India defeated South Africa (S.Af) by 124 […]
Swami Baba Ramdev welcomed by Sri Durga temple young devotees on his visit to Australia early this year New building of Sri Durga Temple, claimed to be Australia’s biggest Durga temple, will open with fireworks on November 30 after seven days of ceremonies in Rockbank near Melbourne. […]
The opera house proudly lighted in golden yellow light celebrating Diwali on November 12 this year. But who could think of Diwali atop the harbour bridge. Well the dancers of Sanskriti dance group danced dandia that glowed in the night on top of the harbour bridge. The world-first performance was attended by members from […]
By Neeru Saluja Move on men. Women power is back. Finally, Bollywood has its own female buddy film. Seven powerful and beautiful women have taken the form of ‘angry goddesses’ in director Pan Nalin’s latest film ‘Angry Indian Goddesses’. After winning accolades in the Toronto International Film Festival and the Rome Film Festival, the goddesses […]
By Sunder Das The words introverted and extroverted have been current in our vocabulary for a long long time. But laymen, as also professional people, are not very clear as to what these mean in terms of human experience. We can perhaps postulate […]
A new translation of the poem ‘Karna Kunti Samvad’, recreating a meeting between them. By Rabindranath Tagore Karna On the banks of the pristine Jahnavi I am rapt in prayer and songs to the evening sun. I am he who is born of the womb of Radha, […]
Deepawali Milan is a celebration that includes children as young as three year olds By Manju Mittal Deepawali Milan was celebrated on November 7, 2015 at Hornsby RSL. The annual event was sold out a week prior and attended by a large number of people. The event attracted […]
Oxford Dictionaries’ 2015 Word of the Year is actually one pictograph among an unlimited set of little images that can range from smiley faces to red angry faces, from happy cats to family portraits, and include a coffee cup, football, taco, house, thumbs-up, hat, sun, and shoe: emoji. Oxford University Press (OUP) explained that […]