Sharath Komarraju, Author At Made In India Magazine

Kemps Creek’s new mandir and the Hindu temples rising across Australia

Sharath Komarraju 12 August 2026

A 15-metre metal statue of a young ascetic, standing on one foot with his eyes closed, now looks out across a 25-acre site at Kemps Creek in western Sydney. The figure depicts Bhagwan Swaminarayan in his youthful form as Nilkanth Varni, cast in a pose of penance, and the volunteers who raised it describe it […]Read More

Sports Cricket

In 2027 the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Goes Back to India. In Australia, the Lounge Room Is Split

Sharath Komarraju 3 August 2026

Australia tours India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2027, five Tests from 21 January to 3 March. The schedule, the history, and why the diaspora is split.Read More

Immigration Jobs

Behind the Nando’s Counter, the Skills Australia Wastes

Sharath Komarraju 20 July 2026

Ishmeet Kaur arrived from India in 2015 with a telecommunications engineering qualification and a fair assumption. A country advertising a shortage of engineers would surely find room for one more. It did not. For more than a year she stood behind the counter of a Nando’s outlet in Perth, sending out applications that vanished without […]Read More

Real Estate / Property Australia Indians in Australia

Real Estate Trends for Indian Buyers – Navigating Property Investments and Homeownership in Australia

Sharath Komarraju 2 May 2025

In recent years, Australia has witnessed a significant uptick in interest from Indian property buyers, driven by factors such as educational opportunities, economic stability, and a multicultural environment. As of 2025, this trend continues to evolve, influenced by policy changes, market dynamics, and cultural considerations.Read More

Gadgets

New gadgets in 2015

Sharath Komarraju 4 February 2015

With the boom in technology, touchscreen and swiping across phone screens is a mere technicality now. Latest gadgets are so advanced that one cannot imagine what other technology man has brought their way this year. Some of these new technology gadgets are: 1. The smart-home Living in the 21st century, all of us at home […]Read More

Travel

5 TRAVEL BOOKS EVERY AUSTRALIAN MUST READ

Sharath Komarraju 21 August 2014

Australians are known for their love of travel. There’s nothing a fair-dinkum Aussie larrikin likes more than hoisting his travel bag over his shoulders and make for the great open outback. We bring you a list of five great travel books that you should read to keep that wanderer’s spirit alive. 1. In a sunburned […]Read More

World News

TEMPTING FATE ON FLIGHT MH17

Sharath Komarraju 13 August 2014

On Thursday, 17 July 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 Boeing 777 was shot down over Ukraine, near the Russian border. None of the 298 passengers on board survived. The most well-known among the passengers in the week following the incident, though, is Cor Pan, a Dutch national travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, posted a […]Read More

Handpicked Tech

HOW TO STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET

Sharath Komarraju 13 August 2014

Especially with the ubiquitous nature of social media, internet devices and ever-present email services (read Gmail), the internet could appear sometimes to be a benign place. We think we’re anonymous when we’re on the internet, just because we’re sitting by ourselves in our Read More

Sports

THE SECRET TO SOCCER’S UNIVERSAL APPEAL

Sharath Komarraju 23 July 2014

In the spirit of full disclosure, I must say I am not a soccer fan. I did play the game for my school and was deemed good enough at it by the coach to be a plucky defender, but as an adult I’ve found tennis and cricket far more interesting. But when the World Cup […]Read More

Opinion

SIX VALUES TO LIVE BY AND DIE FOR

Sharath Komarraju 14 July 2014

In a time of value-erosion and increasing attention paid to numbers and bottom lines, we thought it would be timely to put out a list of values that we believe are important enough for people to align their lives by. Loyalty It’s the easiest thing in the world to always look up at the rungs […]Read More

Kemps Creek’s new mandir and the Hindu temples rising across Australia

In 2027 the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Goes Back to India. In Australia, the Lounge Room Is Split

Behind the Nando’s Counter, the Skills Australia Wastes

Real Estate Trends for Indian Buyers – Navigating Property Investments and Homeownership in Australia

New gadgets in 2015

5 TRAVEL BOOKS EVERY AUSTRALIAN MUST READ

TEMPTING FATE ON FLIGHT MH17

HOW TO STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET

THE SECRET TO SOCCER’S UNIVERSAL APPEAL

SIX VALUES TO LIVE BY AND DIE FOR

A child from an English-medium school in India is barred from NSW new arrivals English support

South Asian languages are the largest group in NSW schools and most have no HSC course

Banks and telcos must join AFCA from 1 September but scam complaints do not start until 2027

NSW selective schools hold one in five places for equity and never tell families who got one

A child from an English-medium school in India is barred from NSW new arrivals English support

South Asian languages are the largest group in NSW schools and most have no HSC course

Banks and telcos must join AFCA from 1 September but scam complaints do not start until 2027

NSW selective schools hold one in five places for equity and never tell families who got one

The Masterchef Talks: Sashi’s Secret! At Naturally good Expo, Sydney

ISRO Is Taking Earth’s Toughest Creature into Orbit

Sri Durga Temple Rockbank – Largest Hindu Temples In Melbourne

Struggles of Transition: The Migration Experience of Indians in Australia

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