awadhesh sharma launches “The immortal hindu Tales”

BRISBANe, Awadesh Sharma has just released his book “The Immortal Hindu Tales” The book presents an abstract of ancient Hindu texts such as the Ramayana. Mahabharat and Bhagwat Puran. It includes their cherished stories and other sources that have been returned to generations of humanity since antiquity. The stories of great personalities such as founders of the new religions and sects, popular teachers and emperors, philosophers, poets, devotees and social reformers are also presented.

They tell the readers about the glorious past of human society and are designed to enthuse them to endeavour to achieve a bright future. Books and personalities played a significant role in shaping people's outlook in India. They have contributed to their spiritual development and social cohesion.

The book will speak to Indophiles, people of Indian descent, including the diaspora.

And those open and curious about Indian culture. It will help develop a sense of appreciation in the mind of the people of Indian origin for their heritage. Other readers will broaden their understanding of the

Indian way of life, culture and tradition. The source books granted blessings of good fortune to the readers of these stories. With a bit of luck, that blessings will extend to the readers of this book. Avadhesh Sharma was born in Bihar, India. He graduated from Banaras Hindu University in India and completed a Master of Engineering degree from the Peoples Friendship University in Moscow, USSR. Awadesh Sharma worked in the Engineering field on numerous projects in many countries. He migrated to Australia and now lives in Brisbane.

He is especially fascinated by ancient Indian heritage. He has been writing for Brisbane Indian Times, a monthly publication in Brisbane. He dedicates the book to Pandit Shyam Sundar Sharma, who steered him in his early life. He expresses things to his wife Sudha and Dota Anamika, who reviewed the text and offered valuable suggestions. And acknowledge the contribution of his son Abhishek on technical matters.

He also likes to thank Umesh Chandra OAM and his team at Brisbane Indian Times, who have encouraged him to write by publishing his articles in their publication. He thanked them for the encouragement, and his thanks also go to everyone who made this publication a reality. He hopes this book will enlighten the grandchildren and the future generation.

israel- tourism, pilgrimage, and arms sales

By PeTeR LANe RAI

Raj, An Indian Christian friend from Brisbane, excitedly told me about his recent pilgrimage to Israel, where he had visited places associated with the life of Jesus Christ, like Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee. In the Bible, Israel was seen to be a "light to the nations”, which was then fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Some have always seen Israel as a noble, unique, and democratic country, birthed in 1948 by the survivors of the Holocaust, which saw six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

GOLD COAST, a dinner function to celebrate Pushpinder Oberois’ recent Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) award, was held at Tandoori Palace restaurant in the presence of His Excellency Manpreet Vohra, who lauded Pushpinder Oberois’ contribution to the Indian Community Leadership Excellence across Australia and Cultural Diplomacy between Australia and India.

Pushpinder Oberoi responded to his accolade by saying, "Honoured and grateful. Thank you so much. Indian Non-resident Society, India, awarded Hind Rattan Award for acknowledging my contributions, life, passion, and purpose - my people, the important causes, and my wife Karla, which allowed me to contribute to the community and beyond. I thank all those who have trusted me through this journey - all those who held my hand through it and all those who watched me from their place above. I owe this to my parents."

Akashika Mohla added, "Pushpinder Ji’s passion for people and his contribution to people-to-people ties across Australia and India speak for themselves. We hope he now runs for politics and brings in his transformational energy to advance Australia and the people of Gold Coast".

The Rotary Club of Gold hosted the night to celebrate and facilitate the Hind

Tourists like Raj bring millions of dollars to the Israeli economy. Yet, according to bestselling journalist Antony

Loewenstein who grew up in a liberal Zionist home in Melbourne, wrote in his unsettling book "The Palestine Laboratory."

"There is a dark side to Israel, with its economy historically directly linked to arms sales to some of the most oppressive regimes in the world, such as Myanmar, South Sudan and Iran (now Israel's primary enemy).

The testing of these arms and surveillance technology has also been on the Palestinians in the 'laboratories of the occupied territories of West Bank and Gaza “where Palestinians (who are not all terrorists) are harshly treated.

In fact, Lowenstein sees Israel as an oppressive military regime to be likened to the former apartheid South Africa as Israel's policies are always based on "what is best for the Jews".

Lowenstein concludes, " The future looks bleak for Israel if it continues on the road of violence against Palestinians and amoral arms sales to oppressive regimes. Israel is, therefore, not exactly the light to the nations the Bible would have it be."

Of course, Raj knows nothing about Israeli arms sales to oppressive regimes or ill-treatment of Palestinians, for, after all, he was only a pilgrim and a tourist to Israel.

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Rattan Award, also attended by Angie Bell, Federal Member of Parliament, Archana Singh - CGI (Hon), Amar Singh - Australia of the year, Dr Neeraj Khanna of Indian Medical Association, Ashutosh Mishra and Ram Mohan of India News Belinda Dawes from Gold Coast Bulletin, Umesh Chandra OAM, Pinky Singh OAM, Rotarian. And community and business leaders from Gold Coast and Brisbane and more...

Prabhas and siddharth

PRABhAS has been making waves in the Indian film industry with his incredible talent and good looks. The Baahubali star has managed to garner a huge fan following, not just in the Telugu-speaking states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana but across the country. While fans are eagerly waiting for his next film, Adipurush, there have been reports of his collaboration with War and Pathaan director Siddharth Anand. But as per a report in PinkVilla, the film has been put up on hold for now. The publication has quoted a source revealing the latest update in detail. The source asserted, “Siddharth Anand has also refunded the amount he got as an advance for the film. Mythri and Siddharth Anand have now decided to collaborate on another project in the near future.”

Additionally, it was stated that the reason for the stakeholders to end their collaboration was due to the unavailability of matching dates between Siddharth Anand and Prabhas.