Hindustan Times
The Issue: Expletives in Aussieland
The Soundtrack: Down Under
I’m thinking of going to Australia, settling down, growing old and dying there. I always had that country pretty high up on my list of charming places to live in, as opposed to a place to regularly visit (Paris, for joyous reasons, Calcutta, for nostalgic ones). Its people seem to have the right attitude to life, its cities were correctly cosmopolitan and its culture was futuristic rather than based on the past. (Read: it’s got great beer, beaches and books in English.) Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Filed under Music · Tagged Aussieland, Aussies, Australia, Calcutta, Down under, Labour Party colleagues
The Issue: ‘Racist’ attacks
The Soundtrack: The KKK took my baby away
Foreign tourists have to be careful. They can’t just do these things and then blame the government for the consequences.” No, that’s not a lager-fuelled Aussie who was on the train that had an Indian student in Melbourne being severely pummelled by three ‘racist’ thugs. That was Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat last year making his statutory comments about foreigners in Goa being susceptible to sexual violence from locals. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.86 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Filed under Music · Tagged Aussie, Australia, Goa, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, racist attack, sexual violence
