Australia

Total Posts : 17 posts

Australia

New Zealand Shooter’s Killing Spree in Context of the Global Ideological Rumblings

In a terrible shooting in New Zealand, a shooter killed 49 people [https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/mar/15/christchurch-shooting-injuries-reported-as-police-respond-to-critical-incident-live] in Christchurch by going into mosques with a gun and shooting at whoever was around. Seven died at Linwood Islamic Center, 41 at mosque near Hagley Park. The

Desh Kapoor

15 Mar 19 7 min read

Videos

Education, Tourism Drivers Of India-Australia Ties, Says Oz Envoy

Ahead of the second India-Australia 2+2 dialogue, the Australian envoy to India says relationship between the two countries has been at the strongest point than it has been in recent years. In an exclusive interview with SNI’s Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Australia’s High Commissioner to India Harinder

Desh Kapoor

08 Oct 18 1 min read

Videos

Indo-Pacific is a Work in Progress, Says Former Australian Diplomat Peter Varghese

Former top Australian diplomat Sir Peter Varghese was in India a fortnight ago to speak about Australia’s India economic strategy 2035 which he presented to the Australian government. He spoke to our Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale and explained what it means: source [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX8CRymGz9g]

Desh Kapoor

17 Sep 18 1 min read

Sports

My Favorite All-time Top 10 Spin Bowlers in Cricket

Generally in cricket the fast bowlers take all the spotlight. But the real craft of thinking bowling is practised by the spinners. Bowling at slower speeds, spinners have their fingers and wrists to do the talking. They need to use the flight, the pitching and the spin of the bowl

Desh Kapoor

21 Jul 15 3 min read

Amalfi Coast

5 Most Spectacular Pools in the World to Swim in Before You Die

This is summer time in most of the world and many places are reeling under tremendous a heat wave. Temperatures in North India, for example, have touched over 51 Celsius! In such a weather, there is nothing like a swimming pool. So, we went looking for the dream destinations for

Desh Kapoor

20 Jun 15 3 min read

Love

Anushka, for love’s sake, don’t back off!

Manoj Sebastian was livid on twitter because of Anushka Sharma! Why? Because she happened to be in Sydney watching her boy friend Virat’s semi final game against Australia. A game where India lost and Virat – the star Indian batsman – scored just 1 run. As per this guy Manoj [https:

Desh Kapoor

26 Mar 15 5 min read

Business

Vodafone Australia takes Call Center jobs back from India

The new trend is to move the jobs that had been outsourced to India and China back to the country of origin. It is happening in the US. And this is another reminder that this is also happening in Australia. Vodafone Australia is doubling the size of its Tasmanian call

Desh Kapoor

02 Mar 13 2 min read

Sports

Dhoni’s Double Ton (Video) against Australia in the 1st Test in Chennai (Feb 2013)

The first test between Indian and Australia recently saw a superlative batting performance from Mahendra Singh Dhoni, when many had written him off. And when he started hitting, he really hit them hard. What a performance that was. The Australian media [http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/lyon-dulled-by-dhonis-double-ton-20130224-2ezmr.html]

Desh Kapoor

02 Mar 13 1 min read

India

“Rent a Womb”: India’s “Growing Industry”; Is it Biological Colonialism?

Many women from outside India – specially developed world – are “renting wombs” of Indian women [http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/2013128122419799224.html] to have their babies. > In a study [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09649069.2012.750478] recently published in Journal of Social Welfare and

Desh Kapoor

03 Feb 13 3 min read

Australia

Indians more Australian than European Settlers: Study finds Indians went to Australia 4230 years ago

In times when Australians – Caucasian primarily – are targeting Indians, for being “outsiders”… comes the scientific reminder from the Gene pool. Mate!! We are MORE Australians than you all are! From the perch that Indians see Australia now, YOU may be outsiders! LOL. See, how a small Gene thingy turns the

Desh Kapoor

16 Jan 13 1 min read

Spirituality

Scientific Studies and Health Benefits of Yoga

Yoga has many benefits to health. Many scientific studies have been done in these areas. Here is a good infographic showing the benefits (along with the links from where the information has been taken). You can click on the infographic for a larger view. Image courtesy: Alison Hinks Yoga [http:

Desh Kapoor

29 Dec 12 2 min read

Australia

Cricket India’s Financial impact on the Cricket World

The importance of India in world cricket is underscored by how presence of India helps the financial state of other countries’ cricket boards. One line at the end of an article [http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/tv-deal-to-lift-ca-into-billionaire-league-20121025-2889s.html] in Sydney Morning Herald on Cricket Australia’s operating results

Desh Kapoor

26 Oct 12 2 min read

India

Why Greg Chappell is horribly wrong about Indian Culture!

Greg ChappellGreg Chappell, the former Australian cricket captain and the ex-Indian coach made some stinging remarks against Indian culture and Indians. As per him, Indians just cannot be leaders. > “The (Indian) culture is very different, it’s not a team culture. They lack leaders in the team because they are

Desh Kapoor

12 Mar 12 5 min read

Australia

Why does a New Zealand school teach Sanskrit?

These days in India, if we have any schools making it important to learn Sanskrit, it would raise a huge hue and cry, specially amongst the Seculars. But it takes a school in New Zealands Auckland to come up with a curriculum to learn Sanskrit. And they have laid it

Desh Kapoor

02 Feb 12 1 min read

Australia

Australia, Racism, and "Routine" City Burnings

In the last few weeks at least four Indians have been attacked, couple of them fatally in Australia. Such attacks have been going on for over an year now. Indians in Australia have been specific targets by criminals and killers. Protests from the Indian Government have been there for a

Desh Kapoor

09 Jan 10 2 min read

Australia

Australia, Racism, and "Routine" City Burnings

Desh Kapoor

09 Jan 10 2 min read

Australia

Aussie Intolerance of Indian Migrants

Yet another Indian immigrant – Nitin Garg – had been murdered in Melbourne, Australia. He had emigrated from Punjab and had a Permanent Residence card. He worked at Hungry Jack restaurant and somehow stumbled into it, after being stabbed just 300 meters away from it. Now, this is yet another killing of

Desh Kapoor

03 Jan 10 1 min read

Subscribe to see what we're thinking

Subscribe to get access to premium content or contact us if you have any questions.

Subscribe Now

Australia

United States of America

Subscribe to see what we're thinking