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Gandhi’s bust installed at NSW uni

Gandhi’s bust sits magistically in the NSW University forecourt. Pictures of Dandi march on October 2 as members of the Indian community who proudly took part with children of the Indo-Aus Bal Bharti Hindi School. Consul General Mr. Amit Dasgupta and Mr. Neville Roach conducted the Gandhi Jayanthi celebration. NSW university installed a bust of […]

Pallavi Shardas’s double debut!

Indian Australian classical dancer and actress Pallavi Sharda is about to make her debut in two movies of two different genres and languages on the same day! On the 22nd of October Warner Brothers released DUS TOLA in India in which Pallavi plays the role of Geeta – a village dance teacher opposite acclaimed actor […]

Pay when you renounce your Indianness

The Indian Citizenship Act, 1955, does not allow dual citizenship.   However, many individuals continue to retain their Indian passports and some even travel on them, even by suppressing information several years after acquiring foreign citizenship.   Keeping an Indian passport after acquisition of foreign citizenship constitutes an offence under the Indian Passport Act and […]

Himalayan Cauldron on Boil Again

By Rekha Bhattacharjee Thanks to a renewed assertiveness in Beijing, the relatively dormant strategic tensions between India and China are reaching the point of boiling over once again. What has precipitated the fire under the simmering cauldron is denial of visa by China to Lt. Gen. B S Jaswal who is based in the disputed […]

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