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Happy #WorldBiscuitDay! Which is your favourite biscuit?

26% TimTam, 74% Parle-G

LEADING THE WAY OUT OF COVID-19

PAWAN LUTHRA wrote about the leadership messaging of women leaders in nations that have managed to keep the ongoing pandemic in check.

Padmini Sunderaj wrote: The world women leaders that have been mentioned here are the ones who have been widely appreciated in the Western world. What is required is highlighting the foresight and efforts of women (and men) who don't get the deserved attention in the news here. Can Indian Link do that?

Sharon Bull wrote: All (leaders are) doing well. Everyone country has a different way. Australia and New Zealand both doing well; Veitnam doing great. Chitra Iyer wrote: Please add the Health Minister of Kerala to this list.

Anu Shivram wrote: Whenever I pick up a copy of Indian Link, the rst thing I read is the editorial. Generally, Pawan Luthra's editorials re ect on current affairs with maturity and balance. The editorial on the way out of COVID was very fair and objective. Kudos to Mr. Luthra for highlighting the leadership provided by women across the globe.

The Black Lives Matter movement in America has really allowed me to take a step back and re ect on Australia’s racism issue. It’s about time to educate myself and to support the aboriginal people..

Oneida Mason, Twitter user

Say It With A Song

Indian Link Radio presenter EKTA SHARMA asked her listeners on social media: What song does this picture remind you of?

Smriti Aditya wrote: Hari hari vasundhara pe neela neela yeh gagan.

Arvinder Kaur Makkar wrote: Aasmaan ke neechae, hum aaj apnae peechhae, pyaar ka jahaan bassa ke chalae.

Vijesh Khanna and Manisha Belani wrote: Aaj main upar aasman niche, aaj main aage zamana hai pichhe.

Darshita Shah and Rani Ajay Musale wrote: Yeh haseen vadiya, yeh khula aasman.

Hiral Adhyaru, Manisha Belani and Pronoti Pradhan wrote: Neele gagan ke tale, dharti ka pyaar pale.

Veena Sashi wrote: Aasman ke paar shayad aur koi aasma hoga.

Komal Sarkar and Manisha Belani wrote: Neele neele ambar pe, chand jab chaye, pyaar barsaye, humko tarsaye, aisa koi saathi ho, aisa koi premi ho, pyaas dilki bhujhajaye.

Akansha Sharma wrote: Aaj Mausam Beimaan Hai Bada.

Chitra Adhvaryu wrote: Chand chhupa badal mein.

Manisha Belani wrote: Neela aasman so gaya.

Manisha Baviskar wrote: Yeh Sham Mastani.

Poonam Rana Giri wrote: Mausam mastana, dil hai diwana.

Shweta Doke wrote: Yeh mausam ka jadoo haimitwa.

Smriti Aditya wrote: Yeh kaun chitrakaar hai from the lm Boon Jo Ban Gayi Moti.

Sachin N Jain wrote: Neela gaganke tale, mummy ne bhajiye tale.

Imagine calling a protest where coloured people are literally asking not to be killed “self-indulgent”

Tali Aualiitia, ABC Radio Australia

Every death in custody, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, is a tragedy. But the rate of Indigenous deaths in custody, as a proportion of the Indigenous population in Australia, is a scandal.

Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian reporter

Speaking Australian

Indian Link Radio presenter SAGAR MEHROTRA asked his listeners on social media: Is there anyone out there who can say something - anything - in an Australian Indigenous language?

Prabhu Kiran wrote: ‘Jurdaa!’ is a lament sort of like ‘Oh God!’ in the Warramunga language spoken in Central Australia. ‘Piliyiangi’ means ‘How are you’. I worked for 7 1/2 years with the First Nations people in the Northern Territory. I picked up many words there.

Sameer Mehrotra wrote: Murru Mittigar is a social organisation in Penrith that helps create a better understanding of Aboriginal culture in the wider community. The words ‘Murru Mittigar’ mean ‘Pathway to friends’.

Sagar Mehrotra wrote: My son Ishan just looked up how to say hello: ‘Kaya’ in the Noongar language; ‘Palya’ in the Pintupi language and ‘Yaama’ in the Gamilaraay language.

Rhea Laxmee Nath wrote: I recently came across the word ngalaya which means "ally" or "friend in battle" in the Dharawal language. An important thing for all of us to be!

Rajni Luthra wrote: There are some Indigenous words that have been adopted into the English language, like ‘corroboree’ which means ‘gathering’. Then there’s ‘cooee’ which I had heard of in regular English usage such as ‘within cooee’ which means ‘within reach’. But on my rst visit to the Blue Mountains nearly 30 years ago, I learnt that it is an Indigenous call-out which is shouted out, as if to ask “Is anyone there?” To my newly arrived Indian self, it sounded like the Hindi “Koi hai??”The name Canberra is also Indigenous – it means ‘meeting place’ in the language Ngunnawal, supposedly spoken by the tribes that came from the region. It is a tting name for the capital of the country.We know the Australian slang ‘Hard yakka’ means ‘hard work’ - I believe the word ‘yakka’ is Indigenous for ‘work’.

Nidhi Mehrotra wrote: I know the word ‘billabong’ means ‘lake’ and ‘cooee’ means ‘come here’.

A PARENT’S REQUEST FOR ONLINE LEARNING

JULIE PAREKH’s son goes to school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, where COVID-19 has surfaced in two separate colleges. She wrote about concerns for his safety.

Shalini Rajesh wrote: Completely agree. We should be given an option (to send our kids to school or have them homeschool). Why expose our kids and take risks?

Clay Ton wrote: Shalini Rajesh, if you leave the house or have other family over, the risk is far greater than a kid attending school.

Shalini Rajesh replied to Clay Ton: At my place all are working from home except my 12-year-old son. I'm more than happy to keep him home, do online study.

Prathibha Shivashankar wrote: Really don't understand how our health experts made this decision.

Jaswinder Singh wrote: To all parents, please read this and decide for your kids.

Care about black people beyond moments of tragedy.

Ryan Peete, Twitter user

“Black Lives Matter” does not mean “ONLY Black Lives Matter”. It means “Black Lives ALSO Matter” and is a response to the fact that in societies largely controlled by white people (eg: Australia and America), Black lives do seem to matter less..

David C

Simon, writer and artist

Caption Contest

What’s the chitchat here between Madhuri Dixit and her son Arin?

Raj Saneja wrote: BETA mere DIL ki yeh AARZOO hai, tum DEVDAS ya

KHALNAYAK nahi banana. Inka ANJAAM bahut bura hota hai.

Sunny Rathod wrote: Padh likh ke IAS BIAS bano.

Arix Bishnoi (winning entry) wrote: My son and I don’t believe in nepotism. And FYI don’t forgot to watch him in Student of the Year 3 (Winning entry)

Leyla Nubia wrote: She’s telling people on TV that her son needs a long overdue haircut.

Arora Vijay wrote: Doctor? No way!! You are going to be an actor, you hear me!

Raghu Rules wrote: The next super star is right here beside me.

Aneeta Menon wrote: “Wash your hands and don’t touch your face.”

Arix Bishnoi wrote: He may look like Sanju but he is smart like Dr.Nene.

WHERE IN OZ

This building, constructed in the 1880s, is the rst building in Australia to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage status. We asked you to name the building and the city it is in.

WHERE IN INDIA

Trekker’s delight: we asked you to identify this spot in India. Readers Agasteena Shah-Patel and Bhanu Kothari correctly identi ed it as Kalavanti Durg in Maharashtra.

The black lives matter campaign is not an importation from the USA. Our treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia is a national disgrace..

Glenn Davis, Twitter user

As a black settler in Australia, I acknowledge I’m standing on looted land.

Francis Awaritefe, Twitter

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Perhaps sit down and actually listen to the pain that you’re hearing here, to truly take it in, and to realise that, sometimes, we might live in the same country, but experience completely different realities.

Nyadol Nyuon, Lawyer