Archive for: March, 2016

India wins the inaugural T20 Asia Cup

  By Kersi Meher-Homji Rain or storm, India kept up her magnificent form to win the T20 Asia Cup defeating the host nation Bangladesh by eight wickets with seven balls remaining on Sunday night at Mirpur in Bangladesh. This was India’s sixth Asia Cup victory, the previous thirteen Asia Cups were in the 50-overs version, […]

Trisanku: In between heaven and earth

                  That was the time when the famous king of the Solar dynasty, Trisanku, reigned. He was so much in love with the beauty of his body that he could not hear the thought of parting with it at death and desired to ascend in that very […]

India runs with Pat Farmer

                    By Neena Badhwar Patrick Farmer, Australia’s Ultra Marathon runner, is in India running a daunting journey from Kanyakumari to Kashmir covering 4,600 km in about 60 days. We remember the famous 250km ”˜Dandi March’ by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 to protest against the British rule […]

Maritime Museum welcomes migrant stories

                  By Manju Mittal As a migrant, a writer and a reader I share the history and stories of other migrants, perhaps, to explore my own feelings about migration. Australia is a multicultural nation with 44 per cent of its population born overseas or with a parent […]

India’s Love Detectives

              Love detective Rajani Pandit,  Dateline, Tuesday, 8 March at 9.30pm on SBS. Dateline reveals the extraordinary work of India’s lady detectives who go undercover to help young and old navigate the future of love and marriage. In the age of Facebook and Whatsapp, old and new worlds collide, […]

Sydney’s Vega makes it big in Bollywood

  By Neeru Saluja Actress Vega Tamotia is not your typical conventional actress. Brought up in Sydney, she has played lead roles in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. She rose to fame with the Tamil film ”˜Saroja’ and her film ”˜Pasanga’ won two National Awards. Her latest film was screened at Cannes and she also […]

E-Paper Feb-Mar 2016

E-Paper - February/March 2016

E-paper February-March 2016

Ayyappa festival in Sydney

By Manju Mittal Men sitting bare- chested, in Mundu ( dhoti ) women draped in silk sarees and wearing flower benis in their hair, start trickling in a steady stream at Toongabie’s Sakthi temple where the annual puja and Pathayathra for Lord Ayyappa was being held on Sunday December 27, 2015. The idol is decked […]

India-born Asif Kapadia and Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy win Oscars

              Indian-origin British director Asif Kapadia won an Oscar for his movie ‘Amy’ as the Best documentary Fetature   Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra wasn’t the only highlight of Oscar night 2016 on February 28, for India””or even South Asia. The star of American television show  Quantico, of course, did […]

Rajan Kumar Patel on ”˜Feast of Varanasi’

Manju Mittal ”˜Feast of Varanasi’ directed by UK based director Rajan Kumar Patel will receive its world premiere at the 18th London Asian Film Festival on 5 March 2016. Just as the title of the film suggests, the thriller provides a visual feast of the great northern Indian city of Varanasi – the spiritual capitol […]

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