Blacktown City Council Libraries has launched a special book compiling 50 stories of life during COVID-19 lockdowns, in partnership with a local author. Council worked with Quakers Hill storyteller Emie Roy of ‘The Stories Untold’, the Community Migrant Resource Centre and Westpoint to publish the book, ‘The Light at the End of the Tunnel’. Blacktown […]
By Neena Badhwar The book ‘The Light At the End of the Tunnel’ published by Emie Roy as the curator, a work that kept her busy for close to a year, with stories compiled from fifty individuals describe the survival spirit of ordinary human beings during Covid. People suddenly were caught off guard with the […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji It was a Final to remember for Gujarat Titan’s captain Hardik Pandya. He took three vital wickets and scored 34 runs in a low scoring match as he led his team to a comfortable win. He was the worthy Person of the Match. The Final at Ahmedabad was a tussle between a […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji This year’s IPL will be remembered for Jos Buttler’s brilliant batting for Rajasthan Royals. In the qualifying match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday at Ahmedabad he hit a six enabling his team to win by seven wickets with 11 balls in hand. Buttler (from England) scored a brilliant unbeaten century with […]
Across India the representation of women in different legislative bodies remains alarmingly low, in fact only 14 percent of elected members to India’s national parliament are women. Some barriers to women running for office, such as forms of illiteracy, work burdens within the household and discriminatory attitudes towards women are well known, but new research […]
Neeru Saluja interviews actors #AyushmannKhurana and newcomer #AndreaKevichusa for their film #Anek. In this interview, Ayushmann tells us about how he resonates with the film, what his fans will expect after reuniting with director #AnubhavSinha and which social messages are close to his heart. Newcomer Andrea tells us about how she prepared herself for this […]
SBS has launched SBS WorldWatch, an all-new free-to-air multilingual news channel on May 23. The dedicated 24-hour channel features news bulletins from leading international broadcasters in more than 35 languages and is home to SBS’s Arabic and Mandarin television news bulletins – SBS عربي News and SBS 中文 News. The launch of the channel builds […]
URI – The Surgical Strike went on to become a sleeper hit in 2019, and created a spark in industry circles both with its commercial success and critical acclaim. It also made Vicky Kaushal, an overnight sensation and finally got him his due as a powerhouse performer and a talent that made everyone sit up and take […]
Many of the world’s most distant languages are threatened with extinction. When a language dies, so does its literature. Our future generation, particularly migrant youngsters, are losing touch with our languages and hence are unable to read literature written in their native tongues. It’s critical to put together programmes that reflect our culture, literature, and […]
World Digital Premiere of RRR in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada on May 20th A glorious homecoming for many fans, RRR is a roaring, rearing, rousing mix of genres that center around two Indian revolutionaries and their fight against the British rule in 1920. Headlined by Ram Charan, N.T. Rama Rao Jr., in lead roles, […]