YOUR SAY

In mum’s sArI

We asked young Indian Australian women to raid their mums’ wardrobes to create a unique Mother’s Day tribute

The Chindian Diaries wrote: A nice feature about daughters in their mother’s sarees.

Ian wrote: Beautiful saris, and beautiful stories.

Suneela Ramaswamy wrote: You look simple and elegant in the sari, Smitha! What you say is so true, I feel close to my mom when I wear her saris. Miss her so much!

Carmel Caggegi wrote: What a beautiful connection!

Anita Rao wrote: Wow… wish we could somehow showcase their stories for younger generations to learn from.

Kala Raghunath wrote: Vishakha, this is the look and feel that I would expect from a mother’s saree - simple, humble and traditional. My favourite out of the lot.

Preeti Jabbal wrote: Devna and Rajni, like mom like daughter, beauty with brains.

Radhika Pradhan Mathur wrote: Both mums and daughters looking lovely.

Shyamali Sinha wrote: Beautiful ladies in beautiful saris. Amrita, the story behind this sari is an inspiration for our current generation. How sweet, Khyati, this sari is a symbol of your dream!

Nikita Dave wrote: Mum, so many of yours to choose from!

Veena Sudarshan wrote: Very appropriate for Mother’s Day.

Mamata Hegde wrote: So great. Hats off to your mums. Lovely saris.

LookIng bAck At 1947

PAWAN LUTHRA interviewed British director Gurinder Chadha whose new film Viceroy’s House tries to recreate the events that led to the Partition of India

Manisha Bakshi wrote: Love Gurinder Chadha movies, looking forward to this one!

Balvinder Singh wrote: Train from Pakistan. A literally and metaphorically burning June’s chilling reminder of a gory happening in bright colours, which know not their dark shades. Perhaps no colour, even the blackest of the black, can describe the agony my parents would have gone through during those three longest June days of their lives. Stuck with three kids - the youngest just six months old - for three days with scarce food and water, in the Amritsar-bound train whose engine was hijacked at Lala Musa junction, and was guarded, from a surrounding frenzied mob, ready to attack any time, by a handful of armed military persons.

sIkhs In sport

DAMNEET SAMBHY reported from the 30th annual Australian Sikh Games in Adelaide

Tony Huber @AusCG_Mumbai retweeted Indian Link: Great to see sport connecting diaspora across Asia-Pacific! The Sikh community is one of the oldest & largest Indian subgroups in #Australia

chronIcLIng the worLd’s most fAmous journALIst

In Tintin, Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé, drew from his own life experiences, wrote VIKAS DATTA

AMaughan‏ @AMaughan3 retweeted Indian Link and wrote: So did Jo, Zette and Jocko

Alistair McIntosh wrote: Unfortunately Herge was a Fascist and a Racist.

worLd buILt Around food

India’s best-known food personality Sanjeev Kapoor spoke with PREETI JABBAL while on tour in Melbourne

Dr Shailendra Singh retweeted Indian Link: [Using food as an anchor for tourism] is also an area for Fiji/the Pacific to focus on given the abundance of local, naturally grown/caught healthy foods.

SK RESTAURANTS @skrestaurants retweeted: What’s cooking in the world of Sanjeev Kapoor!

Sangramkeshari Padhy @keshari49 tweeted: I really want to meet you!

new pArentAL vIsAs A deceIt

The high cost of the new parental visas has left those who campaigned for it disappointed, reported SHAMSHER KAINTH

Aman Arora wrote: It’s very disappointing that the federal government has passed the ridiculous fee structure for the long stay parents visas - $20,000 per parent + private medical insurance. If you guys think it’s a rip off, please join together for a protest against it. I hope every one of you will spread this message to all your immigrant friends. Doesn’t matter what background they come from. Please share and let’s protest against the bullying and discrimination being done by the government against all immigrants.

the me AnIng of AnZAc dAY

Some of our young readers, RONIT, ARJUN, ANANYA, MANAN, KUVAM and RIA, shared their thoughts on Anzac Day

Akhil Jhingran wrote: Fantastic Ronit, well written. This works to enhance our knowledge about great Australian heroes.

Chaitanya Sharma wrote: Wonderful piece Ronit! Like mother like son! Naina Uppal wrote: Wow, Arjun. Your writing shows maturity of thought beyond your age.

Ina Takkar wrote: Arjun, beautifully penned piece. So vividly described. Great job, love reading your pieces.

Dr Sonia Bhatia wrote: Well done Arjun. You captured the essence of the Anzacs beautifully in your poem. Lest we forget.

Harvinder Rosy Bhagat wrote: Beautiful painting, Ananya!

Vivek Sharma wrote: A very creative piece, Manan.

Akhil Jhingran wrote: Great words Kuvam, your thoughts reflect maturity beyond your age.

Marion Barnes wrote: Wow. That is beautiful. You capture so many emotions in your poem. Well done, Kuvam.

Rekha Abrol wrote: Wow! Unbelievable and very touching. Congratulations Kuvam.

Praveena Nauty wrote: Kuvam, very touching and thoughtful, well done and great job Ria, our little poetess.

Chaitanya Sharma wrote: Awwww... that’s so cute! Well done dear Ria.

16,000 kms In A crAppY cAr

A team from Australia (calling themselves Honk Honk Old Monk) is set to take part in this year’s Mongol Rally. They will drive in a £11.50 car, purchased at a London scrapyard, all the way from the UK to Mongolia. Elliot Skyewalker wrote: Honk Honk! Good luck, gentlemen. What an amazing journey it will be. Full of adventure! Best wishes and be careful out there

Khera Rinku wrote: Enjoy

Jagdish Satnam Singh Kaur wrote: Good best of luck

pArt AborIgInAL, pArt kAshmIrI

For Reconciliation Week, we ran this from our archives: MAMATA SALAKAPURAPU on how Aboriginal art takes on new forms with some Kashmiri influence whAt’s Your fAv mILk fun fAct for worLd mILk dAY

Krish Na‏ @IndigoKKing tweeted: Great read!

Sivee Bhatia wrote: Hot milk with powdered almonds is yum; hot milk with turmeric is so relaxing; hot milk with cocoa is delicious…list is endless

crAftIng sILence out of words

RAKA SARKHEL on Indian-Australian Michelle Cahill’s Letter to Pessoa which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing Michelle Cahill‏ @theherringlass tweeted: Wonderful review of Letter to Pessoa by Raka Sarkhel in @indian_link @GiramondoBooks

powerfuL IndIAn women shAtterIng notIons

SAKET SUMAN reviewed Ira Mukhoty’s Heroines – Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History

Dr Shailendra Singh‏ @ShailendraBSing tweeted: There should be some good insights/lessons in here

Long rIde on mY motorbIke

A young couple take a motorbike ride from their home in Oz to their home in India, wrote FRANKEY GERARD FERNANDES

Another Traveller wrote: Well done brave couple!

understAndIng of vIr dAs

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Indian comic powerhouse Vir Das spoke with VIRAT NEHRU about the changing perception of comedy in India

Virat Nehru tweeted: Had a ball talking all things comedy with @thevirdas as he gets ready to bring his brand of humour to Australia for the first time Girish‏ @bookwormengr tweeted: Very proud of you, dude!

Vir Das @thevirdas tweeted: Here’s a wonderful review, not of Netflix, but the new show I’m touring with Holier than thou?

wALkIng Across the worLd

KIRA SPUCYS-TAHAR spoke with Arjun Bhogal, who took five years to walk from Cardiff in Wales to Cardiff in NSW

B wrote: I met you on that orange line. That’s crazy!

Tom Warland wrote: Nice article mate

Jasmine Kemkar wrote: Truly inspiring. Congrats and keep up the good work

AMaughan‏ @AMaughan3 retweeted Indian Link and wrote: Crazy but awesome!!

Rajni Luthra: Wow Arjun Bhogal, my salaams to you. I can see a book coming out of your amazing walk! Some wonderful stories there - the Russian character (truth is stranger than fiction, right?), the beauty of northeast India and its people, and um, dealing with the parents...

smArt And sAvvY, or shY And nerdY?

PREETI JABBAL caught up with Kirsha Rebecchi (aka Vani Dhir) from the new family on Ramsay Street embrAcIng cre AtIvIt Y

Ritu Singh wrote: Awesome coverage with such a beautiful pic. Congratulations to Vani and proud parents Jessica n Mohit!!

Ruchi Singh wrote: Well done Vani so proud of you!!

Rajni Luthra wrote: Hope to see much more of you on our screens, Vani - all the very best.

One of the primary roles of the educator must be to foster creativity in the classroom, wrote MOHAN DHALL

Dhanya Samuel wrote: An extremely useful read for both parents and educators of Loot, mAssAcres And expLoItAtIon: the LegAcY of the rAj

SAKET SUMAN reviewed Shashi Tharoor’s new book, An Era of Darkness, based on his celebrated speech at an Oxford Union debate that went viral on the internet

Virat Nehru wrote: It’s a wonderfully written and persuasively argued book. Much needed in the current era where the horrors of colonialism seem to be washed over and watered down with the brush of a benevolent, but misguided enterprise

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