Marital blues make many NRIs dread visiting India
At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reaching out to the Indian diaspora, some NRIs are claiming they even dread the idea...
Premier’s Harmony dinner wins best ‘Australian event Award’
The Premier’s Harmony Dinner, hosted by Gandhi Creations (GC), has been awarded the Best Community Event of New South Wales for 2013 by an...
Australian Open 2014 serves up summer action in Melbourne
In 2013, the Australian Open Tennis Championship in Melbourne, considered among the biggest sporting events in the southern hemisphere, welcomed a record 684,457 visitors,...
Literary Commons! Sharing Australian, Indian stories
First Nations Australia Writers Network and UWS Writing and Society Research Centre launch cross-border literary platform Last September a group of 12 indigenous writers...
‘No water cannons and batons could shake our determination’
What women want: An enlightened mindset.
I still remember partying on Dec 16 last year, unaware of the horrors a fellow city mate was facing....
No fairytale swan-song for Swann
England spinner Graeme Swann surprised many this morning by announcing his retirement from international cricket effective immediately.
It sends shock-waves to an England camp already...
Feel like tripping?
Travel expert Shireen Malani Vaswani says holidays are more about the experience not just the destination
“Anyone can leave the comforts of their home to...
Indian studies gaining traction in NZ
New Zealand has an Indian diaspora of 112,000 and the two countries also share the history as both gained independence from the British and...
Can the new Indian envoy to the US ease tensions?
S Jaishankar, the new Indian ambassador to the US, has played key role in negotiating the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal and other initiatives. He...
Anyone know a short cut through red tape?
I’m sitting in a police station watching as the police officer in charge slams an elderly woman to the ground. He holds her down...