
5 minute read
Matrimonials
from 2011-04 Sydney (2)
by Indian Link
SEEKING BRIDES
Looking for a match for my brother, smart, intellectual and hardworking. Prefer a family-oriented girl, either PR or on Student Visa. As myself and my sister are both Australian citizen, we will be sponsoring my brother and his spouse for permanent residency. Please contact +61
4 3306 5610
Match required for an Australian citizen Sydney resident north Indian boy, 26 years old, 5’7”, slim, handsome and very fair engineer boy from Kayastha family. Looking for a suitable well-educated Indian girl with family values. Caste no bar. Please send details to akhilsns@gmail.com or contact 0412 487 801.
Saini Sikh boy, 1970-born, 5’10”, welleducated, divorced, looking for a girl in Australia on any visa. Caste, religion or region no bars. Simple and early marriage in Australia. Ph. 0401 532 487 (Australia), 98 8864 0204 (India), email: kulvinder102@yahoo.com
Australian Citizen, Hindu, Saiva Pillai Tamil 39, M.Tech, Project Officer, clean habits seeks girl, strictly should be housewife after marriage. Strictly vegetarian. Caste no bar. Apply with BHP to soulpartersearch@gmail.com.
31-year-old male, Fijian-Indian background, 5’8”, fair, handsome,
• Keep cash and valuables to a minimum only carry essential items.
• Don’t leave it until the late hours to return home.
• Keep your valuables close to you.
• Don’t walk along the street using your mobile phone, Ipod/pad, laptop, keep them out of sight.
• Be mindful of your surroundings at all times.
• Make sure all compartments of bags are zipped up or closed.
Australian citizen vegetarian and nonsmoker, living in Sydney, seeks suitable match of honest girl with good family values, age 25-30. Caste and education no bar. Please reply with photo and details HI.WATSUP@hotmail.com or call 0449
109 620
Fiji Hindu, 52, dual Australian / New Zealand citizenship, living in Liverpool, Sydney, seeks Hindu wife from India or Fiji, age 30-45. Please email details / pics to ron_87singh@hotmail. com
Seeking an alliance for Valmiki boy, 36, 5’8”, very well educated, LLB, MIB (AUS) government employee, Australian citizen. Parents are seeking a well educated, homely girl with traditional values. Caste no bar. Respond with photo and complete bio at valmikiboy@hotmail. com or call 0431 159 221.
Gentleman, living in Sydney, seeks a lady for friendship, developing into a long term relationship. Please call John on 0427 011 042
Seeking Grooms
Punjabi Hindu Khatri girl, goodlooking, smart homely, never married, 34, 5‘11”, looks very young, seeks tall Indian boy settled in Australia, caste no bar. Two brothers well settled in Sydney. Contact with photo and details on 0425 910 007 or ricky.bhalla@gmail. com
Seeking match for Sikh girl, 30 years old, 5’2”, very beautiful, born and raised in New Delhi with Indian values. Belongs to an established family in India, father working as Director of Engg. Institute, eldest sister married and well settled in Sydney. Highly qualified with couple of masters’ degrees, completed CA from ICWAI and experienced in working with a top prestigious firm. Seeking professional, well-educated match with good family background. Early Marriage. Caste no bar. Contact: 0403 421 720 or email: kitty.80@live.com
Seeking a professional, well settled, handsome, Sikh boy for an intelligent Jat Sikh girl, dentist, 29, 5’2” working in NSW and belonging to a family of professionals. Email ozdent123@gmail. com
Seeking match for Hindu, 32, 5’4”, Arora girl (divorced), PR, permanent job in NSW and studying accounting. Family settled in India (Punjab). Caste no bar. Please send photo and details to ompar@y7mail.com
Seeking professionally qualified and well settled teetotaller match for 1977born Punjabi Khatri girl, 5’5”, MBA, diploma in HR, IAF lady officer, never married. Caste no bar. Sister in Sydney.
Seeking suitable match for Punjabi Aggarwal girl M.A, B.Ed, Diploma in Community Welfare (Sydney), good looking and fair, divorcee, 5’3”, 42 years. Prefer qualified Indian-origin Hindu boy between 42-45 years. Send biodata with recent photo to janakraj.aggarwal@ yahoo.com
Family seeking a suitable match for a beautiful and accomplished, 23 year old, 5’ 2’’ tall, slim built, North Indian girl with strong family and personal values. She is highly intelligent, has a degree in Commerce/Law and is a tax consultant at a high profile firm in Sydney. The preference is for a suitably educated and employed boy (age: 25-28) who has been brought up in Australia, USA or England. Please send your details (including a recent photograph) to OZ7654@gmail. com.
G. L Gupta settled in Australia since 1970, seeks match for granddaughter. Meenakshi Gupta DOB 7th Nov 1986, ht. 5’ 4” fair, with sharp features, from Hyderabad, India. Graduate in Commerce, PG Diploma in Banking and Finance from IFBI and worked in ICICI Bank. Coming to Sydney. Seeking Hindu (preferably Agarwa)l professional match. Contact 0401 448 186 / 0404 833 750. E mail giri32@yahoo.com.au
Dr.
BY THEVAKIE KARUNAGARAN
Our school classrooms were being renovated. Us teachers had to pack our stationery and books into boxes for transfer to temporary classrooms. Judy my co-teacher walked in and sneezed. She held her head and moaned.
“This is too much! Preparing lessons, correcting assignments and now we have to pack these books. They are dusty and I’m stressed out,” she groaned, slumping into a chair and sneezing again. I stopped packing my books and looked up.
“Calm down, Judy. You’re only packing books. You call this stress? Suppose your house was on fire and you were chased by a mob armed with knives and axes?” I retorted.
Judy looked at me wide-eyed. Her jaw dropped.
“Shanthi, what? What do you mean?
When did this happen?”
“I’m talking about the communal riots that we’ve faced back home in Sri Lanka. I’m a Tamil, a minority group, living in Colombo. We got information that an organised mob was going around assaulting people, raping women and killing Tamils. They used voters’ lists to identify Tamil houses.
“Our Sinhalese neighbour rang me and said, ‘Shanthi, quick come over to our house!’ As I replaced the receiver, I heard the mob. I grabbed my jewellery and cash. Holding my two boys by their hands, I ran towards my neighbour’s house. Halfway down the road I saw the mob. They were moving in our direction. I ran back into our house, dragging my children along. I went upstairs into the room above the garage and locked the door. As it clicked shut, I heard the mob break into our house. We heard the smash of furniture and crack of glass as they looted and vandalised everything. I whispered to the children, ‘Kunchus, block your ears and keep quiet!’ The children were sweating and trembling. I saw the terror in their eyes.”
“Shanthi, why didn’t anyone call the police?” Judy asked.
“It was state terrorism. The police or the army wouldn’t come to our rescue.
Then the mob set fire to our car in the garage. Smoke began seeping into the room we were in. I thought this was the end, we would be killed!
They may rape me. I hugged my children and prayed to God. My six year old son pleaded, ‘Amma, I don’t want to die. Would it hurt?’ And even now I can see my son’s petrified, pale face.”
Relating my agony hurt me desperately, tears trickled down my cheeks. I wiped them and continued.
“Then they tried to break into the room. My elder son and I pushed back on the door. Luckily it didn’t give way. I heard them say, ‘No-one’s in here,’ and the sound of their footsteps faded away. If we had stayed inside we would have suffocated to death with the smoke. So we came out and went on to the balcony. The mob had moved to the next street. The heat of the fire scorched us, so we had no option but to jump down from the balcony and this limp is due to that jump. Our Sinhalese neighbour took us into her house. Our cherished home was completely destroyed. We had only the clothes that we had fled in. Thousands were massacred, but we were alive. Now Australia is our home and country. Our culture and our religion are respected. We are happy here.”
Judy wiped her tears, blew her nose and said, “Shanthi, that must have been a horrible, horrendous experience for you and your family. Thank you for sharing that experience with me. Now I realise that there are worse things in life than work, dust and sneezes!”