RMIT Gallery’s exhibition, Kindness/Udarta. Australia-India Cultural Exchange, will open in Canberra tomorrow (31 May), as part of the Australia-India Council’s 20th anniversary celebrations. More than 117 writers and visual artists from Australian and India are involved in the exhibition, along with more than 23 musicians. RMIT Gallery Director Suzanne Davies said that the response in […]
Sachin Tendulkar: 100th was my toughest… By Kersi Meher-Homji After 33 innings in England, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Australia in 370 days, master batsman Sachin Tendulkar went from 99 to 100 international centuries on 16 March. AT LONG LAST! It was a prolonged period but worth the wait as expectations reached fever pitch from […]
GVK’s Vice-Chairman Sanjay Reddy By Rekha Bhattacharjee Sydney, May 29, 2012 (IANS) Hours after winning the nod for one of the largest coal mining projects in Australia, India’s GVK Group has joined the raging debate on using foreign workers in various Australian resources projects. “Our priority is offering locals and other Australians the opportunity […]
Bollywood Star Judges Raj Suri, Dipti Patil and Anupam Sharma Bollywood Star premieres Saturday 2 June, 7.30pm on SBS ONE Bollywood is twice the size of Hollywood. In fact it is the biggest movie industry in the world, with hundreds of movies made each year and 14 million Indian fans visiting the cinema each day. […]
Akshay Kumar appears in double role in Rowdy Rathore which hits the screens on June 1 in Australian cinema halls is the story of Rowdy (Akshay Kumar) who is a small-time thief and crook crazy about acts of daredevilry. One day, he gets the shock of his life when a young girl turns up and […]
Anil Kapoor, Sonakshi sinha, Prabhu Deva and Shahid Kapoor at the launch in Mumbai of IFFA 2012 When it comes to Bollywood, Melbourne does take away the icing on the cake. First it was the Bollywood segment at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, then the annual Bollywood Film Festival run by Mind Blowing Films […]
Bollywood meets ethno art pop in the release of Australian songwriters Jessica Chapnik Kahn and Nadav Kahn’s first single from their soundtrack for the film “Despite the Gods”. Directed by Penny Vozniak, and shot in India, the documentary is one of the featured documentaries showcasing at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival. The soundtrack and […]
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Australia has launched an inaugural issue of Bhavan’s new Hindi Literary Monthly Magazine “Navneet Australia Hindi Digest” at Kavi Sammelan with India’s famous poet Ashok Chakradhar on 18 May 2012 in the presence of Dr Geoff Lee, NSW MP from Parramatta. The magazine includes special sections for Hindi teaching organizations in Australia, […]
From January 1, 2013 no more rego stickers needed to be displayed on the cars’ windshield After 1 January 2013, it will no longer be an offence for light vehicles to not display a registration label or to display an expired or damaged label. In a move sure to be welcomed by drivers and businesses […]
Sydney loves Shahrukh Khan What are Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Depp and Lady Gaga doing in Sydney along with India’s Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan. Well the King of Bollywood, named as one of Newsweek’s ”˜50 Most Powerful People in the World’ with a global fan following that runs in billions, is cast in […]