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 […]
Unauthorised cancellation of air tickets is something unheard off. It caught the whole community unawares when they themselves or their friends and relatives were told, some at the check-in counters, that their e-tickets had been cancelled and hence they no longer had valid documents entitling them for travel. But they had fully paid for the […]
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, […]
Hindu Women’s Council of Australia’s Domestic Violence Forum on November 21, 2015: HWCA has announced this very important forum on an issue of urgency in the Indian community and invite members of the Indian community to join in this session that discusses domestic violence: “Each and Every One of us has a role to play […]
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 […]
Unauthorised cancellation of air tickets is something unheard off. It caught the whole community unawares when they themselves or their friends and relatives were told, some at the check-in counters, that their e-tickets had been cancelled and hence they no longer had valid documents entitling them for travel. But they had fully paid for […]
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 […]
Wednesday 18 November, 2015 Surgeons from around the country are meeting today in Melbourne to explore the correlation between distractions such as using a mobile phone while commuting and the epidemic of road trauma. Scientific co-convenor of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Trauma Symposium, ”˜Fatal Distraction’ Dr Valerie Malka is a trauma and […]