Nirbhaya’s ashes have not cooled down yet there are still rapes and gang rapes happening all over India. Although this girl who had everything to look for in life, a supportive family that helped their daughters’ ambition to study a medical profession, Nirbhaya had fought bravely with six drunk and armed men alone as her […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji The death of Tony Greig came as a shock to me as to all us. An interesting character, it was always interesting discussing cricket with him in the SCG Press Box. He had that certain presence, that certain aura, a charisma that attracts. At 6’7” he was larger than life size […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji 2012 has been a miserable year for Indian cricket. The 2011 World Cup champions who were at one stage ranked on top in Test cricket that year have plummeted down, down, down. Not only overseas but also on home pitches made for India’s strength; spin, spin, spin. In the previous few years, […]
Nirbhaya is her name given to her by The Times of India to the namless victim but powerful enough in her struggle in hospital as whole of India and the world kept a vigil and prayed for her recovery. She will live in our memories for life as she gave up finally in her struggle […]
Sydney’s New Year Eve celebration this year will display the sign in Hindi ”˜Swagatam’ along with 16 other languages as the big night begins when the words ”˜Welcome to Sydney’ are projected on the pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge including English and Gadigal languages. Hindi along with the rest of the languages represent Sydney’s […]
Cheteshwar Pujara – classy batsman By Kersi Meher-Homji Wish we can press the delete button in real life as we do on the computer keyboard! Everything was roses and glories for Indian cricket till 2 April 2011 ehen they won the World Cup with Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan and […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee It has been one week since the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled the ”˜Asian Century white paper’ but the debate this policy document has triggered is still raging unabated. There would be hardly any media outlet down under which has not rolled out opinion-pieces about the much-awaited white paper which charts […]
With more and more families spreading across the globe, Telstra is making it easier than ever to call friends and family in South Asia with new International Calling offers. Telstra Marketing Director, Maryanne Tsiatsias, said customers will love the new International Calling offers. “Many of our customers have relatives and friends living overseas and […]
Minister Macklin and the Hon John Murphy with community leaders, parents and students from Homebush West Public School and Strathfield Councillor Raj Datta If you are enrolling your child into primary school for the first time or into secondary school for the first time you ar entitled to receive a bonus of $410 for each […]
The Hon. Tony Abbott MHR Leader of the Opposition Christmas-New Year Message to the readers of The Indian Down Under I extend to the readers of The Indian Down Under and the members of the Indian community in Australia all the very best for Christmas and the new year. The holiday season […]