Deepak and Ravi Sharma as Rama and Laxman By Neena Badhwar From the very moment Maharishi Vashisht appeared on stage along with his students in dazzling costumes at the Whitlam Centre in Liverpool on April 5, the place turned into a riot of colours, music and dance, the changing scenes intently engaging the audience in […]
Six citizens have been honoured last night for their exemplary service to multicultural communities in NSW at the Premier’s Harmony Dinner ”“ an event which culminates the NSW Government’s Multicultural March celebrations. The winners of the Premier’s Multicultural Community Medals received their awards in front of over 900 guests at Rosehill Racecourse attending the […]
By Gaurav Joshi While Sri Lanka stopped team India from becoming the first team to win the WT20 twice it is fair to say that India performed above expectations by reaching the final of the WT20. Before the tournament India might have been the 2nd favourite to take out the title with the […]
Frank Bainimarama By Karam Ramrakha While India has remained steadfast in ‘clean’ elections, what intrigues us are the promised September elections in Fiji. For eight years, Military commander Frank Bainimarama has ruled Fiji with a hand-picked Cabinet without elections. As promised he has renounced his military position, and will now form a political party and […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee There is a long and fascinating history behind India’s capital city. From Indraprastha of 400 BCE to Luteyns’ New Delhi, the teeming northern Indian megapolis has been through seven major avatars and numerous rulers. In the history spread over three millennia, Delhi may have seen majestic Moghuls and splashy Sultans but […]
By Kanaka Ramakrishna The Worship of Shiva as ”˜Mahayogi’ and ”˜Pasupati’ as found in the Indus valley civilization in the north west of India 5000 years ago was later integrated into the early Vedic Aryan civilisation as ”˜Rudra’, and later as ”˜Shiva’. Though the worship of Rudra by the early Aryans started the proper […]
Alia Bhatt Bollywood reporter Neeru Saluja catches up with two young stars that Bollywood has brought forth in an exclusive phone interview for The Indian Down Under… By Neeru Saluja They both are in their 20s and come from Bollywood families. Though a few films old, they are grabbing headlines for their dazzling looks and […]
The NSW Indian Welfare Association (IWA) founded over 15 years ago, celebrated Seniors’ Week in grand style with a “retirement expo” consisting of a variety of interesting items and fun activities on 22 March 2014 at the Ermington Community Centre. The event was funded by a NSW Seniors grant. The event included talks by […]
Rajhesh Vaidhya Kamban Kazhagam Australia is dedicated to the promotion and development of the three components of Tamil language in the form of Literature in prose and verse, Music and Theatricals. Following the great success of previous “Isai Velvi” concerts in 2008, 2010 and 2012, we now proudly present “Isai Velvi 2014 – Enchanting […]
With this World Health Day, WHO is drawing attention to a group of diseases that are spread by insects and other vectors, the heavy health and economic burdens they impose, and what needs to be done to reduce these burdens. Vector-borne diseases cause more than one million deaths each year. But death counts, though alarming, […]