SAY IT AGAIN

In the wake of #australiavotes2019, multicultural communities need to come together to scratch the veneer of diversity that many social and political institutions are putting forth to tick a box.

Tamil Feasts

In our new video series AUSSIE BITES, we followed India’s TV chef RANVEER BRAR as he travelled around Oz trying new foods, making new friends and trading stories. In Episode 2 (TAMIL FEASTS: Food for Social Justice) he met with Tamil asylum seekers who use food to overcome socio-political obstacles as they rebuild their own lives.

Janine Holgate wrote: Very heart-warming and informative. I loved the stories told and the format of casual conversation around the dinner table. I look forward to the next episode! Have subscribed.

Natalie Moshegov wrote: Thought it was excellent!

Lillian Meyerhans wrote: Food is definitely a good way to bring people together. Great job. Feeling hungry now!

Sunita Lakhanpal wrote: Ranveer is a wonderful story teller, over and above being a chef.

Georgie Kyrikos wrote: Interesting video. How wonderful that you have brought awareness of these people through your work.

Penny Pavlakis wrote: I loved it. Makes me feel like cooking a curry. Ranjan Bora wrote: Amazing how food is so closely associated with our sense of identity. Wonder what the (horror) stories were behind why these guys left their home to seek refuge in Australia.

One Nation Candidate

We interviewed Nikhil Aai Reddy, One Nation’s candidate for Petrie, QLD in the 2019 Federal Elections.

Krish Na wrote: Is this the same Nikhiul Reddy who is an active OFBJP-er and Secy of the FICQ? To be fair, Malcolm Roberts was the first Indian guy to represent One Nation.

Jonathan Steffanoni replied to Krish Na: That is clever and also correct: as soon as we conflate ethnicity with nationality, we create racism.

Rochelle Fernandez wrote: I don’t think Nikhil has been listening when he says, "One Nation started the debate over issues the major parties refuse to speak about – Immigration, Foreign Ownership, Water Security, Energy Prices, Fuel Prices, Safe Schools, and Political Correctness." That is all the major parties speak about. Why would he want to be part of a party that hates him?

The 2019 Lok Sabha elections saw a proincumbency vote. Chemistry prevailed over old-school arithmetic.

Sukhmani Khorana, Culture Studies academic and writer

Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India

Happy Birthday Kashif

Indian Link Radio broadcaster KASHIF HARRISON’s weekly show Good Morning Shanivaar had a special birthday edition recently

What a memorable birthday I’ve had on air this year! Firstly, we had Mrs Kler as a guest live in the studio – the one and only Mrs Kler, who is one of our first listeners, who everybody loves dearly, and who loves us all like her own children. Fantastic to have you on my Facebook live stream segment, thank you Mrs Kler! Touched to hear also from many listeners who rang in with birthday wishes. And then the boss Pawan Luthra rocked up to wish me happy birthday, and began this unrehearsed segment, sort of like “Let’s Know You Better, Kashif”. Caught me unawares, I can tell you, but I did enjoy the q-and-a! And that was not all: just as my show finished, the phone rang and I answered; it was none other than ScoMo on the other side – the Prime Minister of Australia, calling me on my show! To wish me many happy returns? No, not quite, he had an interview lined up with Pawan. But still, you’ve got to agree, WHAT a birthday on air! Thanks, guys!

Caption Contest

What’s the chitchat here between Hema Malini and Dharmendra?

Nikita Patel wrote: Dharmendra: Yunki, aap toh jante hi hain ki iss Basanti ko zyada bolne ki aadat toh hain nai, toh woh vote mange gi nahi, par aap isiko apna vote dena!

Manish Mendhe wrote: Dharmendra: Basanti, yeh log is umar me humara duet dekhna chahte hai, without payment… kya karein?

Deepak Vincent wrote: Dharmendra (reprising his famous one-liner from Sholay): Hum kaam sirf paison keliye karte hain

Gopal Ganwani wrote: Dharmendra: Agar tumne Hema ko vote nahin diya… to mai tumhara KHOON pee jaoonga

Ajay Naidu wrote: Dharmendra: Basanti, tum chaaho to inke saamne naach sakto ho

Hema lA Chauhan wrote: Dharmendra: Chun chun ke vote lenge warna chun chun ke maarenge

WHERE IN OZ?

This self-proclaimed “largest maze complex in the world” is a quirky family attraction with no rides or anything mechanical/electrical.

Readers Rishabha Chitalia Nayak and Roshni Majumdar correctly identified it as Tasmania’s Village of Lower Crackpot and Tasmazia.

After each one of these sessions (the show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction) I think to myself, it is a very smart, very lovely person from whom I have learned things. Shah Rukh, would maybe be at the top of that list.

David Letterman, Talk show host, after interviewing Shah Rukh Khan

WHERE IN INDIA?

High up in the Himalayas, surrounded by glaciers, lies this secluded and picturesque lake. And yet when the snow melts, the water body reveals its spine-chilling secret – human skeletons, some 600 in number.

Readers Tushar Choudhary, Aniket Deshkar, Rajeev Ramakar Tiwari and Rajiv Gupta identified it correctly as Roopkund Lake, Uttarakhand, also known as Skeleton Lake.

Hey @HBO , you can reshoot the entire #GameOfThrones Season 8 in India. It'll cost you half and we like to serve tea in earthen cups and water in steel glasses. GIVE US AN ENDING WE DESERVE. Also, locations lit AF: Gulmarg, Madhya Pradesh, Udaipur Rosa Barks, Twitter user @therosabarks