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THE FACES BEHIND INDIANS IN MELBOURNE

03-04-2020 Gday India

Beenu, a cybersecurity professional with a double degree MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School, admits it was all quite raw in the beginning although his brother Dinesh Arora who was in India then helped him with the project as a moderator

Infusing Indian Art of Rasa With Comedy

10-03-2020 Gday India

Moving away from the usual storylines and anecdotes, Australian-Indian comedian Ashwin Segkar is bringing a unique technique at the upcoming Melbourne Comedy Festival. Cultivating Rasa, the ancient Indian drama technique used in Sankrit drama about 1500 years ago,

At 15, Shivaan Bahl dreams to entertain the world and spread positivity through music

06-02-2020 Gday India

At the age of 15, Shivaan Bahl has a few memorable events that stand out tall in his memory. For instance, performing with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan in Melbourne in 2017 in front of a huge home audience was a “big and happy moment”.

Meet the Khakh brothers who made a name through enterprise and culture

11-01-2020 Gday India

Lovedeep Singh Khakh is proud of his roots which goes back to the northern Indian state of Punjab. His surname Khakh is derived from his ‘small town’ Khakh near Amritsar. Of course, it is not something peculiar to him alone. After all, most Indian names are based on a variety of systems and naming conventions

STICKING TOGETHER Craigieburn Falcons Hockey Club

21-11-2019 Gday India

With every member bringing a different piece to the table, the all-Punjabi Craigieburn Falcons Women’s team is working its way to prominence. In the satellite suburb of Craigieburn just outside of Melbourne, one cannot miss the busy and well-kept hockey field at 450 Grand Blvd where girls and boys,

How a Sydney-based family is raising awareness about organ donation

07-11-2019 Gday India

When your seven-year-old comes home from school and suddenly asks you if you have registered to become an organ donor in the eventuality of death, you brush aside the topic thinking he is too young to even know anything about organ donation, reflects Rupesh Udani.

Noble Efforts to Pave the Divine Path For Others

07-11-2019 Gday India

As the world celebrates the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus this month, a look at one man’s mission to spread the message of Guru Nanak Dev in his own small ways

Mitu Bhowmick Lange’s Mind Blowing Films dominates Australian independent film industry

02-11-2019 Gday India

With Bollywood film Sanju winning the Highest Grossing Foreign Film Award at Australian International Movie Convention (AIMC) for the fourth time, Mind Blowing Films has sealed its place as one of the top companies dominating the Australian independent film industry.

Sunanda Sachatrakul on being openly gay and her debut at Melbourne Fringe Festival

10-09-2019 Gday India

By her own telling, Sunanda Sachatrakul admits she has a peculiar last name. A third generation Punjabi Thai, her great, great grandfather moved to Thailand from India before Partition. “My father adopted a Thai first and last name because at the time, that was the Law for all

Ravi Chand attempts to create awareness about culture & identity

10-09-2019 Gday India

For more than 20 years of his life, Ravi Chand struggled with his identity. Was he Australian? Was he Fijian? Was he Indian? These conflicting thoughts presented themselves to him more starkly when he tried to enter the screen industry.

Sanchita Abrol brings her Kathak presence to Australia

10-09-2019 Gday India

Sanchita Abrol did not foray into dancing by chance but she admits ‘Kathak found her and she found Kathak’ one afternoon when she was very young. There has been no looking back since.

Meet Shashi Singh, perhaps the first India-born female winemaker in Australia

02-08-2019 Gday India

When Red Hill Estate winemaker Shashi Singh started her extraordinary career more than two decades ago, it was a field that was totally new. Starting her first vintage brought an adrenalin rush. “I never wanted this vintage to end. I loved what I was doing.” She found her calling.

New CGI Raj Kumar seeks to interact more with community

02-08-2019 Gday India

It has been a little over a week since Raj Kumar, the new Consul General of India (CGI) to Melbourne assumed office. The chill of the winters here is a sharp contrast to India’s hot summers but Kumar is on an adjustment mode. “Two months before or two months after would have been perfect,” he laughs, as he sits down with G’day India to share some of his thoughts on his new assignment.

A Community Man

09-07-2019 Gday India

Sitting at the Dandenong Indian Museum, Vasan Srinivasan is in a reflective mood. For Srinivasan, who has made Melbourne his home ever since he arrived in 1987, watching the Indian community grow and being a part of its growth story has been special. He feels the pulse of the community and his motives are altruistic. This year he is buzzing with excitement and hope as a long-time dream is about to

SRK'S DATE WITH MELBOURNE

18-06-2019 Gday India

Melbourne: This August as the city’s much loved Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) gets underway, one couldn’t have asked for a much better gift than Shah Rukh Khan, the Baadshah of Bollywood, as the chief guest. So yes, the Indian Bollywood superstar is coming to town!

FUTURE SOLUTION

18-06-2019 Gday India

During his accounting career of over 25 years, Fiji-born Praful Patel veered from routine. He always wanted to expand, corporatise and diversify his business with the need of the times.

IN A SWEET SPOT

18-06-2019 Gday India

Selection Day has come and gone but Karanvir Malhotra is here to stay. This young Melbourne-based boy, who bagged the role of Javed Ansari in the Indian Netflix Original Sports web television series based on Aravind Adiga’s award-winning book, says everything that has happened in his life till now is the result of a series of accidents (more on that later). But with a few projects in his kitty, Ka