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Bishop Puthur named Eparch of Syro-Malabar Eparchy in Australia

Pope Francis has announced the erection of a new Eparchy to serve the growing Syro-Malabar Church throughout Australia. Thousands of Syro-Malabar Catholics, primarily from the...

Parramasala celebrates a decade of diversity

Celebrating ten years of diversity, Parramasala returns in 2020 from 13-15 March with a jam-packed program of multicultural merriment. One of the largest celebrations...

Maharashtrians in Australia: Sammelan & a 28-year journey

In the early 1980s, there were around 30-40 families from the western Indian state of Maharashtra trickling into Victoria. Like any diasporic community, the...

Meet Jovia Prem, Melbourne’s young prolific author

Though little and just eight years of age, Jovia Prem has a lot going for her. For one, in the year of the pandemic,...

After blood donation drive, Sewa looks to build computer centres for underprivileged in India

On 14 June, World Blood Donation Day, Sewa International -- a community-based not-for profit voluntary association -- organised a group blood donation of 22...

Sharing in the time of coronavirus

Food and sharing have become one and the same, specially more so, during the pandemic. When Jasvinder Sidhu, founder of Let’s Feed, got a...

Zangari asks O’Farrell to ‘stand up to bigots’

NSW Labor has urged Premier Barry O’Farrell to distance himself from the Federal Liberal Government’s plans to water down the Racial Discrimination Act –...

A quiet Onam for Malayalees under locked down Victoria

In a state hit by hard lockdown due to the coronavirus, the famously celebrated festival of Onam for the Malayalee people of Kerala is...

Covid-19 takes the Haryanvi festive spirit online

Association of Haryanvis in Australia (AHA) host Teej festival on Zoom and Facebook While COVID-19 has given so much sadness and frustration, it has also...

New Leadership for Peak Multicultural Agency

This week marks the start of a new chapter for the Community Relations Commission with prominent Indian community leader and former Cricket NSW Chairman,...