02-08-2019Gday 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.
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02-08-2019Gday 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.
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09-07-2019Gday 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
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18-06-2019Gday 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!
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18-06-2019Gday 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.
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18-06-2019Gday 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
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18-06-2019Gday India
A lot of what Lucia Hou is today is inspired by her background and heritage. The youngest of 11 children, she was born in Laos, came to Australia when she was one-year old.
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14-05-2019Gday India
Did you know that there is such a thing as a school without toilets? Hard to imagine, but it turns out that in some parts of the world this is almost as common as a school with toilets.
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19-04-2019Gday India
Just call me Satpal, says Bhai Satpal Singh. He does not like the paraphernalia that comes with the word ‘bhai’. He insists he is just someone who is happy to share what little he knows about spirituality.
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19-04-2019Gday India
Born in Hyderabad and growing up in a middle-class family, Elvis Martin, 23, nursed dreams of becoming a cardiologist. Although that dream quite didn’t materialise, he came to Australia in 2013 to study IT. Soon, he realised that living in Australia had its fair share of challenges. He was lonely, depressed, suicidal and experienced a great deal of hardship.
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19-04-2019Gday India
At just 16, Arundhati Banerjee is an artreprenuer and founder member of AIDA- Bharatanatyaved, a dance academy in South Australia-Seacliff, imparting training in Indian classical, contemporary and folk forms.
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19-04-2019Gday India
Sam Evans’ love for the tabla is one that grew out of exploration. He began playing the drum kit as a six-year old and by the time he finished school was playing it professionally. But he was nagged by an urge to discover a musical instrument that had a bit more history, complexity, and a bit more emotional depth. So, he went travelling. It was the late 1990s.
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