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Jan 7, 2022 - Vol 4, Issue 10
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Lord Ganesha temple in Brisbane marks Indian External Affairs New Year with sacred food offering Ministry organises 2nd Vajpayee memorial lecture S ri Selva Vinayakar Koyil (Ganesha Temple) in Brisbane held the Annadanam (The Sacred Offering of Food) ritual on New year’s Day. Despite it being a rainy day, over 3000 meals were cooked in the temple premises and served. This Annadanam has become a significant annual event in the temple calendar and was attended by Tamil families from the Northern suburbs of Brisbane. The temple itself has an interesting history and its establishment is inextricably interwoven with the growing Tamil community in Queensland.
Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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IAIE conducts annual general meeting A
nnual General Meeting of the Institute for Australia India Engagement (IAIE) was convened on 29 November to take stock of the organisation’s accomplishments, hits and misses of 2021. The members of the board were very pleased to note IAIE's outstanding policy engagement impact, productivity in policy dialogues, public outreach and events, media interactions, publications, and ability to shape strategic thinking despite a tough Covid dominated year. Continued on page 15
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n December 24, 2021, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) hosted the second Atal Bihari Vajpayee Lecture. Dr Michael Fullilove, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute of Australia, gave the talk. The event was chaired by the Foreign Secretary, and the speech was titled "Australia, India, and the Indo-Pacific: The Need for Strategic Imagination." This is the second edition of the lecture series, which was established in honour of the late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Indian Prime Minister and External Affairs Minister. Shri Vajpayee was a key figure in creating India's foreign policy,
and this memorial speech is a high-profile event organised by the MEA to honour his efforts. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee introduced policy corrections that reflected the end of the Cold War and the new global balance, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on December 24, and that the former Prime Minister sought a modus vivendi with China based as much on mutual respect as on mutual interest. He also remarked that the IndoPacific area is where the winds of change are most obvious, and that Vajpayee's diplomatic innovation should be employed most forcefully there.
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