Indian immigration to Australia

There is a long history of Indian immigration to Australia. It is said that the first Indians arrived in Australia on Captain Cook's ship in the late eighteenth century.
Indian immigration to Australia over the last two hundred years:
Punjabi Indians took part in the Gold Rush in the Victorian fields which occurred from 1851 to the late 1860s.

Before road and rail transportation Indians referred to as "Afghans" came to Australia to transport goods and mail on camel trains. Some of the earliest Indian arrivals in Australia included Sardar Beer Singh, Johal who came in 1895 and Sardar Narain Singh Heyer, who arrived in 1898. Muslims from North Western Punjab region worked as camel drivers in the Central Australian desert.

During the time of the British Empire about sixty years ago Sikhs came to Australia to work on the Banana Plantations in Southern Queensland. This community has prospered and typically they now own their own farms in Wolgoolga; This is situated about half way between Sydney and Brisbane on the highway. There are two Sikh temples and a museum on Sikhism in Wolgoolga.

A large number of British and Anglo Indians born in India migrated to Australia after 1947. These people are still considered to be Indians in the Australian Census.

Thirty years ago Indians were again allowed to emigrate to Australia; Many teachers and doctors decided to take advantage of this new opportunity.

It was also about thirty years ago following a tech sector boom that Indian IT professionals started to arrive in Australia. Indians are now well represented amongst Computer professionals in Australia.

In recent years there has been a huge increase in Indian immigration to Australia. A wide range of professions are represented amongst recent immigrants including IT professionals, engineers, accountants, cooks, toolmakers. After Chinese immigrants, Indians represent the second largest group of new immigrants.

Fijian Indians have emigrated to Australia due to political instability in Fiji. There have been a number of military coups in Fiji over many years. Many Indians from Fiji go into business.

Since 1998 there has been a significant increase in the number of students arriving in Australia. Indian students pay much higher tuition fees and bring much needed income to Australian Universities.

Indians have played an important role in Australian society over hundreds of years and are now well represented in a wide range of occupations in Australia.

Kiran Bedi’s 10 tips for the woman of today

On the occasion of International Women’s Day what could be a better gift than to get some valuable tips from former IPS officer Dr. Kiran Bedi? The woman of substance and inspiration of many is a part of Star Plus’ Aap Ki Kachehri. Dr. Bedi gives 10 valuable tips for the woman of today.

1. Grow up strong. Mentally and physically to be self reliant.

2. Educate yourself in such a way that provides skills and wisdom.

3. Be in charge of your emotional needs through awareness. Do not let yourself be enslaved by them.

4. If you have made a bad choice either correct it or do not prolong the agony.

5. Never become a mother if you are not emotionally and physically ready. Motherhood I'd say is truly life altering.

6. Remain ethically strong. This will give you the inner strength to live your life on your terms.

7. Remain courageous. Do not fear the future. Focus on doing the right things in the present. This will take care of the future. Never ever surrender your financial self reliance.

8. Remain confident and sure of self. Learn to be your own friend even if you have close friends and relatives.

9. Develop the habit of self audit to chart your own journey time to time.

10. Get associated with good causes, community and spiritual. This will keep you networked and empowered.

10 Most Romantic Gestures Of All Time

1. The Taj Mahal

India's most popular tourist attraction is actually a tomb, created for emperor Shah Jahan's wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died while giving birth to their 14th child in 1631. Heartbroken, the Shah commanded 20,000 workmen to spend 22 years building this marble-and-jewel-studded effigy. As if that weren't enough blood, sweat and tears spent, rumour has it that upon its completion, the Shah ordered that the right hand of the chief mason get chopped off so the building could remain truly one of a kind. Let's just say that when an emperor's in pain, his subjects feel it, and how.

2. Richard Burton's Rock for Elizabeth Taylor

Sure their relationship was a roller-coaster—they married and divorced each other twice—but wouldn't you be somewhat forgiving of a guy who liked to shower you with expensive jewellery like, say, a 69.42-carat diamond? Burton bid on this Harry Winston wonder at an auction in 1969, but lost out to business tycoon Robert Kenmore, who coughed up just over a million dollars for the beauty. Burton didn't take the auctioneer's hammer for an answer, though, and after some heated haggling on the phone, Kenmore sold the gem to Burton for an undisclosed sum. The Taylor-Burton diamond, as it's called, ended up being a gift that kept on giving: After the couple parted ways, Liz sold the gem in 1979 for a whopping $5 million.

3. Posh Spice's Scent for Beckham

What do you get for a toned, tanned, highly-swooned-over metrosexual millionaire who has everything? If you are Posh Spice, you get your husband,football superstar David Beckham - the world's most exclusive fragrence. The one-of-a-kind, $50,000 bottle of Clive Christian No. 1 fragrance took six months to produce, and came encased in a crystal bottle shaped like—what else?—a football boot.

4. DiMaggio's Flowers for Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe may have dated some pretty powerful guys, but no man showed her more TLC than her husband of nine months, baseball player Joe DiMaggio. After Marilyn's death in 1962, Joe placed a 20-year standing order with a local flower shop to have long-stemmed roses placed on her grave three times a week. Talk about touching.

5. O. Henry's Gift of the Maggi

This author crafted what many consider to be the most generous—albeit cheapest—romantic gesture ever. In this short story, a poor-in-pocket but rich-in-love couple secretly makes huge sacrifices in order to buy each other Christmas presents: He sells his grandfather's gold watch to buy his wife a set of tortoise-shell combs for her beautiful hair; she cuts off that beautiful hair and sells it to a wig-maker to buy her hubby a platinum chain for his watch. When they realise what's happened, they're wise enough to just be thankful that they have each other.

6. Eric Clapton's Song Layla

Talk about annoying neighbors: When guitarist Eric Clapton moved into best friend George Harrison's neighborhood, he fell in love with Harrison's wife, fashion model Pattie Boyd. Clapton pleaded for her to leave her Beatle, but Pattie tuned down his requests. Despondent, he began recording a song, fueled by the words of the ancient Persian love poem, The Story of Layla and Majnun. The resulting tune, Layla—which included the lyric "Please don't say, we'll never find a way, and tell me all my love's in vain"—was a hit in more ways than one. Pattie soon left her husband and got hitched to Clapton. Even though they divorced nine years later, the popularity of "their song" will probably last forever.

7. Ben's Sweet Toilet Seat for J. Lo

During their much-publicised courtship, Ben Affleck took it upon himself to pamper J. Lo's most prized attribute: Her butt. That's right, he bought her a $105,000 gem-encrusted toilet seat. "Jennifer is my princess and she deserves only the best—even when it comes to toilets," was Ben's explanation. And J. Lo's reaction? "I never thought I'd say this about a toilet seat, but it's beautiful—almost like a piece of art," she said. Sitting on a john bedazzled with rubies, sapphires, and diamonds might not sound comfortable, but don't worry, Ben thought of everything. Explained an anonymous pal, "The stones are set inside plastic, so Jennifer's behind won't get scratched."

8. Wagner's Symphony to his Wife

Some lovers bring their ladies breakfast in bed; others, like Richard Wagner, bring them symphonies. To celebrate his wife Cosima's 33rd birthday, the famed composer had written Siegfried Idyll for her—and, to boot, hired a fifteen-piece orchestra to play the tune on their staircase as he conducted them. Recalled Cosima in her diary: "When I woke up I heard a sound. What music!" Wagner kept this intimate ditty private until 1877, when financial strains forced him to publish. Their loss, our gain.

9. Carole Lombard's Car for Clark Gable

Hollywood hunk Clark Gable loved fancy cars, and screen siren Carole Lombard could afford to buy him the best. Ain't it quaint, then, that on their first official date in 1936, she bought him a beat-up Model T Ford for just fifteen dollars? Quainter still that she had it painted white with red hearts all over it, delivered with a note saying, "You're driving me crazy"? Thoroughly swept off his feet, Gable got to return the favour to his future wife that evening when he picked her up in his newest set of wheels to go dancing at the legendary Trocadero Ballroom.

10. The Rubbish Disposal

Architect and inventor John Hammes wanted to bestow a nice birthday gift on his wife—who, we imagine, had a sink full of dirty dishes and a disinclination to scrape the leftovers into the rubbish bin. Thus was born the world's first rubbish disposal in 1927. Called the In-Sink-Erator, it soon swept households across the country. Might not sound as romantic as a dozen roses, but what says "I love you" better than an invention that cuts down on crappy housework?

Dan Bova is deputy editor at Stuff magazine. The best gift his wife has ever given him is their son, Henry.

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written by Ifty uk for globalindia.com/

....a Friend does most or all of these...

....a Friend does most or all of these...

well as we all know that "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." so that is what is friendship.......here sharing thoughts which

....a Friend does most or all of these...

(A)ccepts you as you are
(B)elieves in "you"
(C)alls you just to say "HI"
(D)oesn't give up ! ! on you


(E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
(F)orgives your mistakes
(G)ives unconditionally
(H)elps you
(I)nvites you over


(J)ust "be" with you
(K)eeps you close at heart
(L)oves you for who you are
(M)akes a difference in your life



(N)ever Judges
(O)ffer support
(P)icks you up
(Q)uiets your fears
(R)aises your spirits



(S)ays nice things about you
(T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
(U)nderstands you
(V)alues you



(W)alks beside you
(X)-plains thing you don't understand
(Y)ells when you won't listen and
(Z)aps you back to reality

regards & love
sukh

Tips For getting Over A Break-Up!!!

It's tough to say if there are more songs, poems and movies written about the ecstasy of falling in love… or the suffering of breaking up. No one relishes nursing a broken heart back to health, but it's something everyone who's ever loved will have to do at some point. And while I can't say it gets any easier, there are a few measures you can take to help make the process of moving on move along.




Time (but not too much time)


First of all, acknowledge that what you are going through is hard. When you're in love, your body develops a chemical addiction to the other person, and the withdrawal is both painful and necessary. Give yourself permission to grieve. However, if you allow yourself to dwell on the difficulty of the break-up, you just replace one addiction with another, this one much less enjoyable. Make a serious effort to involve yourself in projects and activities, and immerse yourself in other people. Talk to your friends about the break-up, but talk to them about other things, too. Even if you don't want to, forcing yourself to get out and concentrate on other things will get you on the right track to feeling like yourself again.




Letting go



You will never get over him if you let yourself daydream about getting back together. Delete him from your cell phone, and don't even think about clicking on his myspace profile. It's a good idea to get rid of everything that reminds you of him to help yourself realize that that phase in your life is over. Depending on the length and closeness of the relationship, some people find that moving helps them make a clean break and a new start. If that isn't an option, rearrange the furniture, redecorate your walls -- anything you can do to symbolize moving on will help you make the transition. It's time to start a new era, with new memories and new possibilities.




Getting it out



Relationships leave trails of unresolved issues, questions and feelings their wake. But it isn't always possible to talk to achieve closure with the other person. Nonetheless, it's important that you express what you think and feel; working through those questions is a big part of leaving them behind you. Put them on paper. It doesn't matter if it's in a journal or a letter, but sometimes addressing your thoughts to your ex can help you achieve more cathartic value. After you've spent all of your anger, confusion or guilt, look at what you've written. If after you've exhausted your pen or keyboard you still feel like it's something you still really need him to know, consider sending it. First, edit any accusations or sections that are too emotionally charged -- you don't want to send anything you'll regret later -- and make sure it reads as an honest letter that isn't asking for a response. Once you've sent your thoughts, frustrations and explanations, you can feel certain that you've said what you needed to say and move on.




Friendship can wait



No calls. No sightings. No friendship. You need at least three months with absolutely no contact before you can even think about starting a friendship, and it often takes much longer. There's no such thing as "staying friends." You were not friends when you were dating, and if you were friends before, it ended the moment you became intimately involved. If you want to start a friendship now, realize that it will be an entirely new relationship that must be built from the ground up. You'll share a different kind of bond, have different kinds of conversations and play different roles in each other's lives. It may be true that once we love someone, we love them forever, but it cannot be in the same way if you hope to have an honest friendship and an honest chance at moving on.