The other day, we drove some 50 km (in Melbourne this is not far, given that we drive 100 kmph) to meet a remarkable lady. Melton, the ...
There is a very bubbly side to Deepti Aggarwal, Melbourne’s now popular research scientist who made news recently for her invention of ...
Not everyone can boast of such a sweet memory from childhood. Parvyn Kaur Singh was ten-years old when Michael Jackson, the deceased Ki...
(pic courtesy of Hindustan Times) It is our first meeting and my Indian compatriot tells me, “You speak good Hindi, I was wondering ...
I did not know Gauri Lankesh and I had never met her during my years of working in the media in India. But why does her death affect me ...
When you attend a film festival as a media person, the one question that you are always asked is, ‘Do you get to meet the stars?’ Well, ...
Two years ago, an old weatherboard house just behind ours got pulled down and in its place came up a big brand new modern sprawling house....
It is my first day of class for the year. The subject I am attending is Ageing and Society, and resonates well with me. I look around. Exce...
The bittersweet aspect of Facebook when it reminds you of the birthday of your loved one who is no more. Not that I needed a Facebook re...
I haven’t been here in a while. I have been happily abandoning this space, somehow unable to bring out the verve with which stories are ...
For a few days now, I have been thinking of Irom Sharmila. The din over her ending a 16-year hungry strike has abated, the media has moved...
In the afternoon of March 5, 2001, a tiny slip of a baby came into this world. We were ecstatic. It was a boy. No, there was no gender pre...
I am not an early riser. Getting up at 5 am in the morning is a great accomplishment for me. So two weeks ago when I woke up at the dawn o...
One of the most vivid memories in my life was watching India win the Prudential World Cup in 1983 on television. The euphoria and celebr...
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Brisbane to attend the G20 summit, there was excitement already building up with the d...
India-born Urmi Buragohain has just won two bronze medals for Australia at the ITF –Taekwondo World Championships, but this may be just th...
In 2012, Australian Mark Balla was on a train in Mumbai when he made two young friends who lived in Dharavi, one of the largest slums in t...
For intrepid western travellers Varanasi is an exotic place high on the tourist map. But for Indians, Banaras, as it is known to many, is ...
There is something very heart-warming about meeting someone from Shillong outside of Shillong. To reminisce together about Fire Brigade or...
When the elections began, my Facebook newsfeed was clogged with political reflections, debates and arguments and friends were no longer un...
There are probably only a few Indians who are not intimately associated with him. A superstar, a phenomena, Amitabh Bachchan is the stuff ...
Last week, Bollywood actor Vidya Balan came calling. I think Melbourne’s autumn just got livelier especially with the Indian community who...
My first trip to Australia was in 2001. Doing a tourist run of the country, I spent three weeks in Sydney and one week in Melbourne. I was...
It was George Bernard Shaw, famous Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics, who said politics is the last reso...
I just got back from India when sitting in the quiet office of my home, the news of the death of Arunachali student Nido Tania in Delhi sc...
My first piece of the year. I feel like a stranger returning to this space after a few months. Having been wrapped in the firmament of a l...
The other day I received an email from one of my colleagues at BusinessWorld magazine. Well she was more than a colleague, is a cherished ...
Someone once said the raw material of advertisement is life, but that is true of all creative arts I think. I do not watch much of televis...
Lakhwinder Singh Dhillon has been driving a taxi on the roads of Melbourne for the past 11 years. One Wednesday night, when Dhillon reache...
