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19.01.2022 Australian Open 16-29 January 2017 Melbourne, Australia The Australian Open, earlier known as Australian Championship, attracts the world's best tennis players to the Australian sunny shores. It is one of the four grand slam events on the international tennis circuit and is played at the Rod Laver Arena, in the heart of the city of Melbourne, Australia over the last fortnight of January each year.... Planning to witness the Grand Slam of 2017? We will be happy to arrange your travel needs including tickets & sightseeing in Australia before/after the game. Visit - www.goldcoastworldtours.com Send us an enquiry to [email protected] See you soon!

18.01.2022 Subodh Gupta: Everyday Divine - National Gallery of Victoria (Australia) Exhibition, Open 13 May 2016 - 23 Oct 2016 A current exhibition at NGV International is... of works by one of India’s pre-eminent contemporary artists - Subodh Gupta, born in 1964 in the Indian province of Bihar, which has remained the poorest and least developed area of India since independence. From this humble beginning he has become the most iconic contemporary artist in India today, renowned for his ambitious works of art. Elevating objects found in the everyday domestic and street life of many Indians to a position of spiritual worship has been at the heart of Gupta’s practice. Hungry God, 2005, a central work in the NGV exhibition, is characteristic of the ambition that has led to the artist’s great international acclaim. It is made up of a vast number of stainless-steel kitchen utensils stacked in a mound, at an awe-inspiring scale, as a quasi-religious offering. With this major work he offers a multitude of tiffin-pots, and the food they might produce or carry on a daily basis, to satisfy a ‘hungry god’. Cultural references resonate within the make-up of this piece: the use of stainless steel in bowls, plates and cups is synonymous with the modernisation and economic development of India in the twentieth century. Replacing kansa (or bell metal; a brittle bronze containing a high proportion of tin), stainless steel came to transform the kitchen and eating utensils used in India in the 1950s and 1960s. Being more durable than copper, brass and kansa, resistant to tarnishing and not needing to be coated to be used with food, stainless steel was an object of desire for people in an increasingly modern and more time-pressured society. A nod is made to the multitudes of India in many of Gupta’s large works, where straightforward, comparatively small individual elements are brought together on such a scale that they transcend their everyday nature. The works parallel iconic images of the busy urban public spheres of New Delhi, Mumbai or Kolkata: India’s ‘mega-cities’. Gupta draws on the concept of the readymade, inaugurated by French artist Marcel Duchamp, whereby an everyday object becomes art through the act of placing it in an art gallery context. A key part of this operation is the object’s original ‘use value’; that is, its previous function and link to the everyday must remain recognisable for it to be understood as a readymade. Many Indians, though, might find the word ‘utensil’ too coldly clinical a term for the objects sought to be described in Subodh Gupta’s art What is often overlooked is that in the Indian space these utensils have a secret, sacred life of their own. These objects the baalti (bucket), the lotaa (squat pitcher), the kumbhaa, the kalasham or the gharaa (large pot-bellied pitcher), the pateelaa (pan), the thaali (plate) and the chimtaa (tongs) are also signifiers of widespread cultural, mystical and religious practices in rural and urban middle class Indians even today. For instance, the archetypal paatram (vessel), a kalasham (or pot-bellied pitcher), whose form has remained unchanged for three to four thousand years, appears in Hindu mythology as the vessel carrying the nectar of the gods, over which they fought. Seen in this light, Gupta’s works can be read as an accumulation of references that create an allegorical constellation of secular, mythological, banal, sacred, economic and historical meanings. While the vessel and utensil works can be read as quintessential Indian readymades, key cast works from the artist’s oeuvre speak to everyday lived experiences. Cow, 2003, a bronze and aluminium sculpture of a life-sized bicycle and milk pails, represents the travels and travails of everyday village life. ‘The bicycle is like a mechanised cow in the city’, explains Gupta. ‘In the country if I wanted milk, I would go to the cows to get it; in the city it is delivered to you by bicycle’. The casting of the modest mode of transport in bronze not only reveres it, in the tradition of historical sculpture, but also transforms it into a material synonymous with idols worshipped in temples across India. This artistic intervention is mirrored in the works This side is the other side, 2001, a motor scooter again replete with milk pails; Magic wands, 2002, a phalanx of leaning bamboo poles; and, perhaps more inextricably for an audience unfamiliar with India, Gober Ganesha, 2004, which comprises a vessel of bronze-cast cow patties. With Gober Ganesha the artist again points to the vestiges of village life, elevating the dried cow pat to further consider its symbolic and practical value in that context. Cow dung is symbolic in terms of its sacred nature on account of Hindu reverence of the cow and practical in terms of its potent medicinal qualities and, when dried as a patty, use as fuel on a fire for heat and cooking. Gupta’s Fly with me, 2006, featuring shelves of aluminium luggage pieces, suitcases, rolled bedding and doctor’s bags stacked as if in a train carriage, cloak room or, perhaps, lost property division, relates to the act of travelling. The work also relates to the formation of independent India and the seismic lived experience of partition in 1947, when a mass movement of people took place across the new country along religious and political lines, resulting in the displacement of between 14 and 15 million people. The work references the formation of India and the recent increase in Indians travelling overseas for study or work; dreaming in entrepreneurial ways; and how to transcend one’s economic situation, caste or place, just as the successful Gupta has done. Subodh Gupta grew up in a devout Hindu household a religion that considers everything around us, and everywhere, to be imbued with the divine. Through his art, visitors have the opportunity to appreciate, relish and celebrate the truly humble, and to reflect upon our place in the world. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Ministry for the Arts’ CatalystAustralian Arts and Culture Fund. (text & pictures courtesy NGV International)

18.01.2022 Australian Open 16-29 January 2017 The Australian Open, earlier known as Australian Championship, attracts the world's best tennis players to the Australian sunny shores. It is one of the four grand slam events on the international tennis circuit and is played at the Rod Laver Arena, in the heart of the city of Melbourne, Australia over the last fortnight of January each year. Planning to witness the Grand Slam of 2017? We will be happy to arrange your travel needs including tickets & sightseeing before/after the game. See you soon!

15.01.2022 History Snapshot - Australia The Aboriginal People Australia's first inhabitants, the Aboriginal people, are believed to have migrated from some unknown point in Asia to Australia between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago....Continue reading

15.01.2022 Key Facts about Australia as a Nation As a specialised Australia & New Zealand Inbound Tour Company, we have been always passionate about this land down under. While interacting with our overseas customers, we have been frequently asked various things about these two countries. Many have suggested to put Facebook/Tweeter posts for wider audience. Based on this feedback, we plan to offer some interesting insights about Australia & New Zealand. What we have generally observed ...is that many travellers around the world have lot of curiosity in this less frequented part of the world. We hope the future posts in this series would be of interests to our friends, particularly those who haven't been here so far but would like to in near future. We value your opinion. Please do send your comments and suggestions. Tell us if you wish to know any other aspects or more details. We will try to keep it simple & interesting. And yes, do like it!

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12.01.2022 AVALON 2017 Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exhibition 1-5 March 2017, Geelong (Melbourne), Australia... The Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition is a global business event, attracting senior civil aviation, air transport, aerospace and defence industry, military and government decision-makers from around the world, which is held once in two years. AVALON 2017 is strongly supported by the Royal Australian Air Force, Airservices Australia, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Defence’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, the Defence Science and Technology Group and the Departments of Industry, Innovation & Science and of Infrastructure & Regional Development. In 2015, Air Chiefs and Air Force leaders participated from 28 countries - many of these were at Chief of Air Force, Deputy Chief of Air Force or Force Commander level. Total attendances over the four industry-only trade sessions of the 2015 event exceeded 33,000, and the buzz of business was everywhere. Timings: Industry professionals only - 1 to 3 March 2017 General Visitors - 3 to 5 March 2017 Gold Coast World Tours, an Inbound Tour Company based in Australia, run by Indians settled in Australia, would be pleased to arrange and manage your exhibition visit, Travel, Hotels, Food, Transportation & optional Sightseeing in Australia. Contact us: Mobile: 86986 10066 (Mridula Atnerkar-Tatkar) Email: [email protected] Website - www.goldcoastworldtours.com

10.01.2022 "Borderless Gandhi presents Mahatma in me" Free Public Exhibition in Perth, Australia From 2 Oct. to 2 Nov. 2016... "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.... Albert Einstein, for Mahatma Gandhi" The exhibition "Borderless Gandhi presents Mahatma in me" aims to promote Mahatma Gandhi's values of peace, equality and nonviolence through art, exhibition and community engagement. In its growth, "Borderless Gandhi presents Mahatma in me" hopes to contribute to planting the seeds of inter-faith harmony and peaceful co-living within its communities; and further seeks to lead the next generation towards greater peace, tolerance and nonviolence. In the exhibition, several exhibits produced in stainless steel by award winning artist Vibhor Sogani are installed at Bell Tower, Elizabeth Quay, Perth, Australia. (www.borderlessgandhi.org.au)

01.01.2022 Australia - An Introduction Australia is a stable, democratic and culturally diverse nation with a highly skilled workforce and one of the strongest performing ...economies in the world. Australia is a country of striking landscapes, a rich ancient culture and one of the world's strongest economies. It is the sixth-largest country in land area and is the only nation to govern an entire continent. With a spectacular natural environment, high quality of life and great diversity, Australia is a sought after destination for international tourists. It has 10 per cent of the world's biodiversity and a great number of its native plants and animals exist nowhere else on earth. From tropical rainforests in the north to the red deserts of the centre, from the snowfields of the south-east to the Australian Antarctic Territory, it is a vast and varied land. Australia has many World Heritage sites including the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and the Sydney Opera House.