Archive for: December, 2015

Simran Pun: “In 21st century you will have to work with India”

                  Simran Pun was travelling in India when Board of Education rang her with the news of her topping the state in Hindi By Neena Badhwar Simran Pun topped in Hindi Continuers in the state this year. It was a pleasure meeting her proud parents at the […]

Sydney goes Sufiana with Mudasir Ali

              Mudasir claps along as Billu and Maxine sing By Manju Mittal Kashmiri singer Mudasir Ali known for his intense, powerful and energetic voice  was in Sydney during Christmas break. As Sydney prepared for the birth of Jesus Christ and for the big family day get together on the […]

Why you should read aloud to your children and pick their favourite book ?

                A Gist from a book by Dr S. Ryan – By Rekha Bhattacharjee   As parents know all too well, children love to re-read their favorite books over and over again Children benefit greatly from re-reading as they learn the rhyming or predictable pattern of the text […]

Sadhana – a beautiful actress of her times

                              Sadhana in the movie ‘Parakh’ and with the famous fringe she courted in ‘Love in Simla’     By Neena Badhwar Sadhana ”“ the famous actress known to have set a trend of ”˜sadhana cut’ amongst millions of young Indian […]

Australian business looking at India as ‘new China’

            By Rekha Bhattacharjee Those Australians who are worried over the slowing Chinese economy may have some reasons to smile as Canberra is already working desperately to stitch up a Free Trade Agreement with the world’s second-most populous country – India. If everything goes according to the Australians’ plan there […]

NSW Art Gallery exhibits works by great painters

                By Bibi Mukherjee Currently the NSW Art Gallery is exhibiting the most impressive art works from Scotland National Gallery. The collection encompasses 70 paintings from the Renaissance to Impressionism particularly the outstanding works by great Masters. The fresco of Edinburgh skyline with the Edinburgh Castle on the […]

Mother Teresa to be made a saint

            When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?” She answered “Go home and love your family.” Building on this theme in her Nobel Lecture, she said: “Around the world, not only in the poor countries, but […]

R.I.P. Archana

                Archana Kunnath, 30, jumped in front of a speeding train while holding her three-year-old daughter Shreya (pictured together) at Harris Park station in Sydney’s west (inset) on Wednesday. The former assistant software engineer died at the scene and Shreya is currently in a critical but stable condition […]

State’s toppers Mala Rigby and Jasmine Kumar

  By Neena Badhwar We have these young kids beaming with pride and so are their families. They are much more mature than your normal kids. They know what they want, what they want to achieve and speak terms such as work ethics, discipline, keeping to schedule, destressing and hard work. Not only they use […]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai in India

            It’s either the billion plus market of India or just plain connections with the mother country or perhaps to help make lives better of people living in remote villages, India attracts all these tech giants as they come calling. First Microsoft head Satya Nadella then Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and […]

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