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Republic Day Chief Guest 2024

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  ‘WANTED’ read the sign in big bold black letters, with the word ‘URGENT’ underneath in bright red letters. Posters bearing these desperate pleas adorned every...
Humour

Man of the match, Mr Claus

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  It is well past breakfast time. Santa is still in bed. The bearded guy with a big belly and an appetite to match is...
India

Vikram’s women win our hearts

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  I was among the seven million surfers watching the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO’s live streaming of its Vikram lander gliding horizontally over the...
Humour

ChatGPT: Chaat without masala

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  A few days after Modiji’s rock star show in Sydney I came across a headline in the paper ‘ChatGPT: Boon or bane?’. Not having heard...
Opinion

Coronation dish: Chicken’s out, egg is in

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  Less than three weeks to go for his coronation, King Charles III has unintentionally divided his entire nation, even more so than his Royal...
Humour

The demise of the cheque book

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  Recently I received a letter from two banks, differing in texts but essentially conveying the same news. No April Fool’s prank. They are chucking out...
Humour

When the moon’s a balloon…

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  Is it a bird? Is it a plane??  This query, uttered at an unidentified flying object, is now passe. Now, thanks to China, it’s ‘Is...
India in Australia

Selvarajah Muraledaran, OAM: Australia Day Honours 2023

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  Selvarajah Muraledaran was a young parent when he first took his three-year-old son to Tamil school in 2000. It sparked a life of voluntary service...
Humour

New Year resolutions: What the celebs want in 2023

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  Welcome 2023. The COVID era’s ‘new normal’ has bowed out, and we need to revert to some ‘old normal’, including reviving New Year resolutions. Me...
Humour

(Not the) Person of the Year 2022

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  Come year end, we wait to see the lucky person picked by Time magazine as its Person of the Year 2022. Typically, as someone who...
India in Australia

SAIMA honours four doctors for meritorious work

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  Three doctors and a medical student of Indian origin were recently felicitated by South Australian Indian Medical Association (SAIMA) at a grand function attended...
Lifestyle

Looking back at 50 years in Australia

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  At the end of next month, I will be reaching a new milestone – in fact, a third milestone, in the last five years....
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