By Anu Jose While Christmas is over for another year, there are still a few weeks left of lazy summer days relaxing. It’s the perfect time to catch up on books you wanted to read in 2017 but never had time for. Summer reading is pure bliss, holidays personified! So here is my short list: […]
By Devaki Parthsarathy Many people ask me why I am so happy all the time. For a bright and chirpy “Good Morning” I receive a rather dejected, “So what’s so good about this morning?” or “Can I have the happy pill you’re on?” or “In a couple of days it will be a good morning […]
Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Warramunga, with support from a UK Royal Navy helicopter, seized more than 3.5 tonnes of illicit narcotics during a night-time operation in the Arabian Sea on 3 January 2018 at around 0830 AEDT. Warramunga intercepted and boarded suspect vessel, under the direction of the Combined Maritime Forces’ (CMF) Australian-led […]
By Shailja Chandra (As Gulzar Saab heads to Sydney, we reproduce Monika geetmala presenter Shailja Chandra’s interview with Gulzar when she met him a couple of years ago) Car rolls onto ”˜dhadkati’, pulsating roads of the maximum city, Mumbai. Not blinking”¦on my way to Boskiyana, where he, Gulzar, lives, breaths, reads, writes, creates! Meeting Gulzar […]
Girls out-performed the boys again in NSW HSC 2017 exams, with 83 girls and 38 boys on the merit list as they topped in the state in varied subjects. . Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said it was an incentive for boys to work harder in 2018. “It’s a great outcome for the girls in these […]
A special Vipassana course has been organised for the Indian subcontinent community from April 4 – April 15, 2018 at Blackheath. Course will be conducted in Hindi and other Indian languages as well as in English. Register interest at: https://www.dhamma.org/en/schedules/schbhumi
By Lasantha Pethiagoda Popular myth puts his birth on December 25th in the year 1 C.E. The New Testament gives no date or year for Jesus’ birth. The earliest gospel ”“ St. Mark’s, written about 65 CE ”“ begins with the baptism of an adult Jesus. This suggests that the earliest Christians lacked interest in […]
India and Pakistan will face off in the final of the MoneyGram Thunder Nation Cup at Spotless Stadium on Sunday 7 January 2018 (3.45pm). For the third year running, India and Pakistan will grace Spotless Stadium in the decider of the multicultural cricket competition. Stars XI (Pakistan) and Malwa (India) made their way through the […]
This year on January 30, UNSW’s Gandhi Oration 2018, India’s reputed journalist Shoma Chaudhary will be delivering the Oration on: The Significance of Gandhi in a Post-Truth World Following is the program on the day: Remembrance Ceremony Time: 5.00pm for 5.30pm start until 5.45pm Venue: Library Lawn, UNSW Kensington Campus The UNSW Annual Remembrance Ceremony […]