Land

Linking India With Australia

Chennai, India

for quick sale near the Beach in Muttukadu,

½ Acre land Regularised by the Department of Town and Country Planning, Chennai (DTCP) & Approved late 2018). Located on the beach side of East Coast Road (ECR), cleared of Coastal Restriction Zone Rules. Ready for construction of Buildings. Price Rs 6.30 Crores. It is Rs 70 Lakhs/2400 sqft.

Please send your expression of Interest to rajisam@hotmail.com and contact M.S.Swaminathan (Sam) on +61 411 284 543 for further

Residential Land For Quick Sale

Near the Beach in Muttukadu, Chennai, India

½ Acre land Regularised by the Department of Town and Country Planning, Chennai (DTCP) & Approved late 2018). Located on the beach side of East Coast Road (ECR), cleared of Coastal Restriction Zone Rules. Ready for construction of Buildings. Price Rs 6.30 Crores. It is Rs 70 Lakhs/2400 sqft.

Please send your expression of Interest to rajisam@hotmail.com and contact M.S.Swaminathan (Sam) on +61 411 284 543 for further details.

BY PAWAN LUTHRA

The last few weeks saw the bushfires blaze on in most of Australia. Yet small segments within the Indian Australian community chose to fight the political fires that are currently burning in their own home country. The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 has been igniting passions within the local community, with supporters and detractors both drawing on their patriotism to their country of birth in speaking out about it.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India in December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 by providing a path to Indian citizenship for members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religious minorities, who had fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 2014.

Pointedly, persecuted Muslims from these areas were not given such eligibility. Religion has been used for as a criterion for granting Indian citizenship.

The amendment has been called ‘fundamentally discriminatory’ by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Indian government has defended itself saying that Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh have Islam as their state religion therefore Muslims are "unlikely to face religious persecution" there. However, certain Muslim groups, such as Hazaras and Ahmadiyas, have historically faced persecution in these countries.

The passions have also been running strong in Australia. The community, as in India, seems divided on this issue and while those representing their convictions have been strong at these gatherings, the numbers in attendance have been very poor.