In the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai, the government of Maharashtra is building a 192-meter tall statue for Chatrapati Shivaji, the great Maratha warrior. Amid grumbling from the opposition that this is wasted expense, we look at a few reasons why it might not be such a bad thing. What would you do […]Read More
Leaks and hacks have become a legitimate process by which truth becomes known to the people, thanks to WikiLeaks and the role it played in the US Presidential elections. Now, after a bunch of high profile Indians find their Twitter accounts hacked, we profile Legion, the group that claims to have done it. With the […]Read More
Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, affectionately called ‘Amma’ by millions of people of the state, breathed her last on 5 December, thwarted by a cardiac arrest. In this article, we take a look at what is an extraordinary life that straddled two industries – films and politics – with aplomb. The Chief […]Read More
Two incidents shook the world on November 8, 2016. One was Donald Trump, but the other was perhaps more important for the people of India, where Narendra Modi outlawed five hundred and thousand rupee notes in a shock move aimed at fighting black money. We summarise the whole thing in this article. On November 8, […]Read More
Mind Blowing Films is delighted to announce that the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is the winner of the 2016 Melbourne Award, under the category Contribution to Multiculturalism by a Corporation. Now in its 14th year, the Melbourne Awards program recognises significant contributions to the city and highlights the inspirational stories and achievements of Melburnians […]Read More
In India, sport is often considered a ‘waste of time’, and sports administration – as evidenced by the Commonwealth Games scam – has been the bastion of greedy politicians and uninterested wastrels. Now, starting with a workshop on the subject, Australia is collaborating with India to create a sporting ecosystem. Ever since India’s disastrous run […]Read More
India and Pakistan are at it again. Terrorists killed eighteen soldiers of the Indian Army. The Indian Army retaliated and carried out a surgical strike that killed thirty eight terrorists at one of their launching pads. With escalating tensions on both sides of the border, the most abiding message is one of love. On 18 […]Read More
Australia holds 40% of the world’s Uranium supplies, and India needs a bit of it every year in order to fuel its energy independence plans. The treaty has been signed between the two countries, but a year on, the importing of the radioactive metal has not even begun. We look at why this might be. […]Read More
The University of New South Wales and the ONGC are coming together in the latest project aimed at generating more methane from existing coal blocks. Armed with positive results from recent research, the joint project hopes to solve larger problems like the world’s energy crisis and its air polluting ways in one swipe. In the […]Read More
Reading about the Amritsar policeman who swallowed forty knives and kept them inside his stomach for two months made us think. We went scouting for Indians who made it to the Guinness record books on the back of some strange things, and we found so many that we categorised them for you. Are you ready? […]Read More
