After a long hiatus An Irreverent Comment is back with subjective and objective comments on Indian community in Australia.

I arrived in Australia from India in 1999 as a student and I completed a Masters degree in Business Management.

Join the Mighty May Land Sale

With award winning developer Central Equity holding a Mighty May Land Sale there’s never been a better time to visit Featherbrook, Point Cook  or Gateway, Truganina. Great deals on prime, new home sites will be enjoyed by home buyers throughout the month. 

MELBOURNE, MAY 7.

The city played host to Indian film royalty with Pamela Chopra, producer, writer, wife and mother to a filmmaking dynasty; Vidya Balan, festival ambassador and currently India’s most successful female actor; Prabhudeva, dubbed‘the Indian god of dance’; Farah Khan legendary choreographer and director; Simi Garewal, the remarkable actor, director, writer,producer and television host; Kabir Khan, documentary turned blockbuster filmmaker,celebrating his action packed hit Ek Tha Tiger and Girish Taurani, rising star, all attending the opening night screening of Raja Harischandra, India’s first film exactly 100 years since its first screening.

MELBOURNE, MAY 6.

For the first time in Australia, a cinema was named after the much loved and iconic Indian film maker, Mr Yash Chopra as a part of the ongoing Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.

MELBOURNE, MAY 5.

Melbourne Kabaddi Academy (MKA) Inc. hosted their Annual Dinner & Dance at Spirit of India Reception, in order to celebrate their achievements in the past year of which winning the Australian Sikh Games 2013 was the most recent.

MELBOURNE, MAY 3.

Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher today invited Victorians to celebrate one of the world’s largest and most vibrant film industries, at this year’s Indian Film Festival of Melbourne being held from 3-22 May.

MELBOURNE, MAY 1.

The Sikh Community of Western Victoria, Inc. (SCWV) which is popularly known as Tarneit Sikh Gurudwara and Wyndham Community and Education Centre Inc. (Wyndham CEC) areworking together in partnership to support youth who are studying in the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL).

MELBOURNE, APRIL 29.

Master Builders strongly criticises the Government’s renewed attacks on the use of 457 visas and the proposed advertising campaign in the lead up the Federal Election.

I pledge myself to build an ever stronger friendship between

our two countries should I be elected Prime Minister: Tony Abbott

MELBOURNE, APRIL 25.

Since the early 1980s when I spent three months in India, Australia and India have grown signifi cantly closer together. Some 300,000 Australians were born in India. In some years there have been over 100,000 Indian students studying here in Australia. 

MELBOURNE, APRIL 24.

Mrs Krishna Arora, well-known to readers of Indian Voice, today received her Medal of Order  of Australia (OAM) from the Governor of Victoria at an award ceremony at the Government House.

MELBOURNE, APRIL 21.

Mrs Suman Verma, an accomplished Melbourne poet and digital painter, has launched her book of Hindi poems at Hindi Niketan’s annual VCE award function held at Indian Consulate in Melbourne on 21 April.

MELBOURNE, APRIL 21.

A record number of people turned up to celebrate ‘Hindi Diwas’ (Hindi Day) today at the Indian Consulate General’s offi ce at 344 St.Kilda Road, Melbourne.

MELBOURNE, APRIL 20.

AUMSAI performed Sri Sitarama Kalyanam on the auspicious occasion of Sri Rama Navami, marking the birth of Lord  Rama to King Dasharatha and Queen Kausalya of Ayodhya. Ram is the 7th incarnation of the Dashavatara of Vishnu.

MELBOURNE, APRIL 18.

The final promise made to the Indian community by the former Premier of Victoria, Ted Baillieu, to start a bus route service to Sri Durga Temple in Rockbank, has now been fulfilled by the current Minister for Public Transport Terry Mulder.

SYDNEY, APRIL 17.

A 23-yearold Zenia Starr from Sydney, was announced the Miss India Australia 2013 here today.

MELBOURNE, APRIL 13.

The 11th annual concert of Natya Kala Mandir was presented tonight at Kel WatsonTheatre, Burwood. The students provided a stunning weekend performance.....the enthusiastic participation of the young studentsgave the performance its energy and charm captivating the audience with their artistic skills.

MELBOURNE, APRIL 13.

The festival of Baisakhi is linked with the harvest of new crops. It is celebrated at thebeginning of Punjabi New Year and falls on the first day of second month.