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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 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.

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

Krish Na‏ @IndigoKKing tweeted: Great read!

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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!

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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

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.

embrAcing cre AtiVity

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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