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Holi Mahotsav Festival 2015 festival on March 28, 29

  Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Australia (BVB) announces its annual Holi Mahotsav 2015, the Grand Festival of Harmony and Friendship. This year’s added feature is Interfaith Festival and a Concert on Saturday 28 March 2015. Bhavan Australia  welcomes everyone to join its 13th anniversary celebration of Holi Mahotsav that will take place in Darling Harbour on […]

Telstra brings you a dhamakedaar event with Brett Lee

  Think you can bowl as fast as Brett Lee? Find out what faster feels like on  Telstra’s  4GX network  at its  dhamakedaar  event with special guest Brett Lee. Kick back with your friends to  SBS PopDesi  tunes while enjoying authentic Indian street food and playing with cutting edge technology at our tech bar. Why […]

Baird meets Indian community before elections and talks about his visit to India  

  By Neena Badhwar NSW Premier Mike Baird met select 150 members of the Indian community in Parramatta’s Deloitte on Tuesday the 23rd of February pitching himself and Indian candidates Raman Bhalla for  Blacktown and Reena Jethi for Upper House in the coming NSW elections on March 28, 2015. He talked about his recent visit […]

Short+Sweet – Bollywood announces participants

      Bollywood Mayuris getting ready for Short + Sweet Bollywood   Short+Sweet – Bollywood the festival of tasty short theatre bites – announces a bright – and very colourful – new star in the  Sydney theatre scene: Bollywood! From March 17-22 Short+Sweet launches its latest version of the popular 10 minute theatre form: […]

Dhawan goes “Dham dhamadham dham” as India thumps South Africa

    By Kersi Meher-Homji Was it Melbourne or Kolkata, I wondered. Cheered on by a crowd of about 90,000 at the MCG last night (80,000 appeared to be from India– painted faces, Indian flags, whistles, drums and all), underdogs India thumped World Cup 2015 favourites South Africa by 130 runs with 58 balls to […]

Rajeev Khandelwal and Usha Jadhav in Canberra to shoot for ‘Salt Bridge’

  Usha Jadhav with  Rajeev Khandelwal   Bollywood descended on Canberra as Australia’s national capital was the location for “Salt Bridge” the latest film starring International heart-throb  Rajeev Khandelwal, India’s Best Actress  Usha Jadhav  and Logie and AACTA award winner  Chelsie Preston Crayford. The picturesque national capital – ranked by the OECD as the best […]

Work is my prayer, music is my soul: Sadiq Rehmani

  Kersi Meher-Homji interviews singer Sadiq Rehmani It was a conflict of interest for me; to watch the India – Pakistan cricket World Cup match in Adelaide or listen to the Avijit Sarkar – Pushpa Jagadish concert in Sydney. I had the best of both worlds: old favourite songs in the afternoon and the World […]

IFFI 2014 – a great experience in the company of talented people

                      Manju with Gulzar By Manju Mittal International Film Festival of India, Goa is an annual event which I have been attending for the past 2 years. Goa is not only the biggest national festival but also is one of the most significant and oldest […]

Sub-Continent Friends of Labor Launches its Election Campaign

Sub-Continent Friends of Labor (SCFOL) formally launched the NSW State Election campaign over a sumptuous dinner with Hon Luke Foley, Leader of the NSW ALP and Leader of the NSW Opposition and approximately 200 guests , State and Federal Parliamentarian Mayors and Councilors. If elections are run one should see how the Indians run it […]

India one of the top three nations generating billionaires

  India has for the first time managed to find a place among the top three countries generating most number of billionaires in the world with Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani, heading the Hurun Global Rich List-India 2015 of wealthiest in the country. The India list gives details of the richest people in the country with […]