By Neena Badhwar While there are many stranded still in India, Aussie travellers including Indians settled here who had gone to see their families in India, one flight that recently landed in Sydney repatriated 300 of them, desperate to come back to Australia. The rescue flight was organised by Sai Sharman Pty with travel arrangements […]
A BOOK REVIEW By Kersi Meher-Homji Battle Scars by Dinaaz Lentin, published in Sydney in 2020. Foreword by Dr Patrick Weinrauch. Pages: 243. Price: A$35 including postage and delivery. The book can be ordered from the author by visiting her website https://dinaaz.com/battle-scars In her first book, Dinaaz Lentin takes us to a journey of many […]
Tha Thin Tha is the vibrant new single by Australia’s multi award-winning vocal quintet Coco’s Lunch. Composed by Coco’s Lunch artist Lisa Young, Tha Thin Tha (pron. ”˜taa-din-taa’) integrates the South Indian vocal percussion art form of konnakkol with contemporary scat language, in a song that grooves along in trademark Coco’s lunch five-part harmony. […]
By Manju Mittal Aman Pal is a well trained expert tabla player and vocalist and he has established himself in Sydney as a versatile performer, a skilled tablist who sings soulful sufi songs. Aman’s subtle command in ragas, the melodic structures, their rhythmic disciplines and his mastery on distinctive techniques of tabla is just superb. […]
By Neena Badhwar Imagine twelve women who strike a friendship for as long as twenty five years, staying loyal to each other, something that started when they arrived in Australia after marrying their partners, they have kept up with each other, in between having kids, raising them, running families, some in extended homes, and on […]