Khalistan backers force closure of Indian consulate in Brisbane

The honorary consulate of India in Brisbane was forced to close down on Wednesday due to safety concerns after Khalistan supporters organised an unauthorised gathering and blocked the entry of the......

In yet another attack, Khalistan supporters vandalise temple in Oz

A prominent Hindu temple in Brisbane was attacked by Khalistan supporters on Saturday, in the latest incident of vandalism against Hindu temples in Australia. IMAGE: director of Hindu Human Rights......

Violence breaks out in Melbourne over 'Khalistan referendum', many Sikhs detained

Two people were injured and as many Sikh men were detained when two separate brawls broke out between Khalistani activists and pro-India demonstrators in Melbourne during the so-called 'Punjab......

Triumph of Hindutva would mark end of 'Indian idea': Tharoor

The Hindutva movement is the 'mirror image' of the Muslim communalism of 1947 and its triumph would mark the end of the Indian idea, says senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, asserting that......

Lessons from Bollywood: How to be a pucca patriot

Be the perfect patriot! It might be one of the most misunderstood words in the world right now, but nobody does deshbhakti quite like Bollywood. Brash, bombastic and blatant, its patriotic fervour......

Madan Mohan lives on

Dinesh RahejaYash Chopra's latest film Veer-Zaara makes a radical departure from the norm-- the movie's music is composed by Madan Mohan, who passed away in1975. Chopra has had some of the......

Mughal-e-Azam revisited

Dinesh RahejaA work of art is the only phrase to describe this historical whose grand palaces-and-fountains look has an epic sweep and whose heart-wrenching core of romance has the tenderness of a......