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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Darkinjung lands, waters, and seas, on which I work and live, paying respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
Happy Diwali 2024
Diwali Interview with Indranil Bengal Halder at NSW Art Gallery 2024
Consulate General of India, Sydney and Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre celebrated Diwali in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
With Susanne Gervay OAM, Indranil Bengal Halder and Meera Mehta
Festival of Lights Brings Joy Down Under as Diwali Celebrated Aussie Style
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Desi Australia Monthly Magazine October 2024
Pages 38-39
Screening the Idea and the Reality
by Meenakshi Bharat, Routledge. 2024
Ever since the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Mumbai-based Hindi cinema has been returning compulsively to the idea of Pakistan, sometimes as the desirable other, sometimes as the horrifying antagonist. Hindi Cinema and Pakistan traces the genesis and development of this theme in Hindi cinema in the 1950s, showcasing its relevance as a tool that both reflects and shapes how India sees its neighbour, the India–Pakistan relationship, and itself.
The book is a serious, multi-platform, multi-pronged exploration of the appearances, invocations, representations and treatment of Pakistan and Pakistanis in Hindi cinema. It follows Hindi cinema’s efforts to come to terms with the ‘idea’ and ‘reality’ of Pakistan. Through in-depth analyses of the enmity and rivalry between the two subcontinental nations in Partition films, thrillers, epic war films and sports films, to screen depictions of the shared cultural past and similarities in films on cross-border love or in films that show a reaching out through humour, this book investigates the visualization of Pakistan and contextualizes these representations within the broader frameworks of India’s political, socio-cultural and popular discourse.
The extensive reach of the in-depth textual analyses of Hindi cinema will make this volume interesting and valuable both to the lay reader and to researchers and academics of cultural studies, media and film studies, and the study of socio-psychological violence in media and culture. Routledge, 2024.
Journal Littéraire de l’Impish Lass – The Impish Lass
Journal Littéraire de L’Impish Lass 2024 E-book Edition
English edition by
Literati Segment edited by Dr Sharon Rundle
Chat GPT, AI and Creative Writing
Please click on the image or link above to read the E-book copy.
Contributors: Meena Mishra, Sharon Rundle, Devika Brendon, Helen Whitehead, Dipima Buragohain, Neeti Parti, Bem Le Hunte, Surabhi Baruah Das.
Page 6 and pages 95 – 171,
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INDIA INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION
15 AUGUST 2024
Sydney Cricket Ground Moore Park
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SOUTH ASIAN FESTIVAL of FILM, ART and LITERATURE SEPTEMBER 2024SOUTH ASIAN FESTIVAL of FILM, ART and LITERATURE SEPTEMBER 2024
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Short Story Room Six by Sharon Rundle.
Recorded at the BBC in London by actor Darlene Johnson
for broadcast on radio stations around the Commonwealth
CONFLUENCE SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVES (UK)
Confluence South Asian Perspectives May/June 2024
Confluence South Asian Perspectives February/March 4 2024
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Indian Link Newsletter March, 2024 Roanna Gonsalves interviews
Photograph by Maria Boyadgis, courtesy of UNSW
Storytelling in India & Australia
at Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre, Consulate General of India, Sydney.
L to R: Ms Louise Fowler-Smith, Dr Roanna Gonsalves, Mr Ronojoy Ghosh, Dr Sharon Rundle, Susanne Gervay OAM.
Host, Niyati Mehta.
RELATIVELY TRUE
Stories of
Truth, Deception, Post-Truth
from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia
Edited by Meenakshi Bharat & Sharon Rundle.
Contributing authors: Shirley Hazzard, Eugen Bacon, Gulzar, Meenakshi Bharat, Alex Cothren, Tony Birch, Devika Brendon, Sharon Rundle, Cate Kennedy, Anne Benjamin, Sujata Sankranti, Kate Grenville, Priya Sarrukai Chabria, Andrew Kwong, Mitra Phukan, Bashabi Fraser, Yasmine Gooneratne, Rashida Murphy, Sunil Badami, Niharika Chibber Joe, Matt M Lupton, Susanne Gervay, Janhavi Acharekar, Gayatri Gill, Julia Prendergast. Proem by Dr Roanna Gonsalves.
Foreword by H E, Australian High Commissioner to India, The Honourable Mr Barry O’Farrell AO.
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Alien Shores: Stories of Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Australia and the Indian Subcontinent, Brass Monkey Books – SOLD OUT!
Fear Factor Terror Incognito, stories from Australia and the Indian Subcontinent, Picador UK, Picador India & Picador Australia – SOLD OUT!
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These collections of stories from well-known authors offer insightful glimpses of life in Australia and in India. We are keen to know what you think of the short stories.
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Amit Dasgupta AO, Former Consul-General of India to Sydney, Ambassador, Distinguished Fellow of the Australia India Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Society for Policy Studies, and the Inaugural Country Director of the University of New South Wales since 2016, writes:
Agathokakological Aussie Summer: Mosaic of Indian Australian stories launched | SBS Hindi
Writers of yore strengthen the Bengali-Australia bond – indiannewslink.co.nz
Agathokakological Aussie Summer Story Mosaic
Choose a star, click and read an illustrated story.
It’s Free!
Watch our Video in Sidebar for the special Mosaic Launch by
HE, The Australian High Commissioner to India, The Hon. Mr Barry O’Farrell AO who wrote the Foreword
A collection of stellar stories illustrated with stunning photos and images from contributing authors, with an Introduction by the Consul General of India in Sydney Mr Manish Gupta.
Links to the Foreword, Introduction and Stories are embedded in stars.
Each author has their own story star – and it’s all free thanks to the generosity of our contributing authors, editors and webmaster.
Created by Helen Whitehead (Webmaster), Indranil Bengal Halder, and Sharon Rundle
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Darkinjung lands, waters, and seas, on which I work and live, paying respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.