By Kersi Meher-Homji What a 71st Independence Day celebration for India! The Virat Kohli-led Indian cricket team whitewashed Sri Lanka 3-0 by winning the Pallekele (Kandy) Test by an innings yesterday. This was India’s first 3-0 whitewash win in a three or more Test series overseas. And they were massive victories by huge margins. The […]
World’s most beautiful woman, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was in Melbourne as the chief guest of Indian Film Festival Melbourne (IFFM) August 10-22. She also attended Indian community’s Independence Day celebration of India’s 70th Independence at Federation Sqaure and hoisted the Indian flag as thousands of Indians and locals came to watch. The celebrations has become […]
Vision 2020 Australia is a voluntary, non-profit and a charitable organisation registered in the State of New South Wales, Australia. Set up in 2003 with the objective of serving the most needy and helpless in the society, Vision 2020’s initial focus is the welfare of children including children living on streets, working in exploitative conditions, […]
Constantino Xavier, Fellow, Carnegie India cxavier@ceip.org The emerging concept of India as a “first responder” reflects the country’s growing capability and increasing willingness to assume the role of a leading power. By contributing its resources to prevent or mitigate regional and international crises, India is demonstrating its commitment as a responsible actor in the international […]
By Manju Mittal Actress Shabana Azmi was at IIFA in New York when I got the opportunity to talk to her after the press conference of ”˜The Black Prince’. Amongst all the films made last year, which were honoured at the IIFA, the one film which grabbed the attention of the audience there was ”˜The […]
By Neena Badhwar Divya Murthy is a young lawyer who is writing research for a university professor in Sydney on media law but when she is coming home to Wollongong where she lives, sitting in the train in a 3-hour journey she is writing out her ideas and even visualising them and finally turning them […]
Hema Malini has always been in the forefront of Indian art and culture, a true karma yogi, and now will debut as a singer on Janmashtami with a full fledged 8 track bhajan album ”˜GOPALA KO SAMARPAN’ at the ISCKON temple on Aug 13, in Juhu, Mumbai. It also marks the coming together of Indian […]
Pic courtesy Hemendra Negi Last weekend Liverpool saw a happening multicultural Bollywood party at Roma Function Centre. From university students to families with kids to oldies, with people from different communities who knew very little about Bollywood to those who know it all and love it, everyone came together to a show and tried […]
By Manju Mittal It is a pity that Australia has not yet been able to host IFFA ”“ the so called ”˜Oscars of Bollywood Cinema’ Awards. IFFA is celebrated by Bollywood every year in host cities around the world and is watched by over 800 million Bollywood buffs, not just the Indians in India, but […]
