tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post5104904376327503455..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Sunday Essay - for Ramana: India and AustraliaJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-48762349632472865172009-07-08T17:30:54.415+10:002009-07-08T17:30:54.415+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-16351118490914642982008-10-15T12:31:00.000+11:002008-10-15T12:31:00.000+11:00Hir Rose. I had already discovered the story of yo...Hir Rose. I had already discovered the story of you and John through a comment you made on RM's blog. I will certainly visit. I hope that you continue to enjoy my sometimes very serious writing.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, RM, for the cross post.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-27905418809070499812008-10-15T10:23:00.000+11:002008-10-15T10:23:00.000+11:00Hello their Sir, I enjoy reading your posts, very ...Hello their Sir, I enjoy reading your posts, very informative... One of my dream is to visit places like India and China. This post gives me so much data about the places..<BR/><BR/>Hope you can visit me sometimes..Chubskulit Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05001712096042262296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-49068333041391232632008-10-15T04:25:00.000+11:002008-10-15T04:25:00.000+11:00Jim, I have posted about you in my blog http://rum...Jim, I have posted about you in my blog http://rummuser.com/?p=322Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-43709815326159424712008-10-14T06:10:00.000+11:002008-10-14T06:10:00.000+11:00Rereading one of your your comments, Neil, reminde...Rereading one of your your comments, Neil, reminded me that I knew an Ashok in Canberra, different last name. I had forgotten.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-83132249373895803172008-10-12T18:29:00.000+11:002008-10-12T18:29:00.000+11:00Hi Ramana. Neil has several blogs and very good on...Hi Ramana. Neil has several blogs and very good ones too. His main blog is http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/.<BR/><BR/>I would love to think that some of my extended family has Indian ancestry, but we don't. The English language is really complicated. <BR/><BR/>I have used the phrase Anglo Indian or Australian Indian to describe families that is some way covered the two countries. Some were of mixed ancestry, some not.<BR/><BR/>The issue of mixed ancestry families escaped my mind. That is worth a post in its own right!Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-58193075336442254212008-10-12T17:50:00.000+11:002008-10-12T17:50:00.000+11:00Thank you Jim. I shall be linking this post with ...Thank you Jim. I shall be linking this post with one of my posts coming up this week. Frankly, I have learnt a great deal from your post. Truly, it is a global village!<BR/><BR/>You have omitted a very important development, post independence. A very large number of Anglo Indians, that is people of mixed ancestry from British and Indian <BR/>inter-marriages, emigrated to Australia, on some kind of a special quota.<BR/><BR/>This was a very vibrant community with its men in the Indian Railways, police, armed forces and the Indian movies. Women were very well known for their secretarial expertise and were in great demand. <BR/><BR/>I learnt my stenography in an Anglo Indian institution in Hyderabad. It was named after Frank Antony who represented the community in the Parliament.<BR/><BR/>To the best of my recollection, a lot of them settled somewhere around Melbourne. A number of them worked in Papua New Guinea and other such exotic places.<BR/><BR/>Does Neil have a blog? I would like to visit his, if he does. Could you please give me a link if he does? Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-73974536837401877362008-10-12T12:30:00.000+11:002008-10-12T12:30:00.000+11:00On 1: It may be a Google Chrome issue, as it does ...On 1: It may be a Google Chrome issue, as it does not appear in Firefox. After the coloured quote the rest of the post stays coloured instead of black. Usually that means an HTML tag has not been closed.<BR/><BR/>On 2: Ashok arrived in Australia before 1955, but 1955 at SBHS. His family lived in Hurstville. His father, as I said, was a diplomat. I had forgotten his older brother Anand, but I suspect he had been sent to England by 1958. <BR/><BR/>I know the first time I brought Ashok home the reaction was amusing. Neighbouhood kids, hearing there was an Indian coming, were disappointed he didn't have a feathered head-dress. (This is The Shire after all!) My father took me on one side and warned me about what certain people became at the full moon... But my parents were charmed by Ashok, and even more so by his parents when finally they met him. <BR/><BR/>Thirty years on my father, who by then was somewhat confused, used to ask after him from time to time, even though I hadn't seen Ashok for decades. Must have made an impression indeed.<BR/><BR/>His mother made the best curry...<BR/><BR/>Interesting place, SBHS then. First time I had ever met Jews too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-34358092104674224052008-10-12T12:17:00.000+11:002008-10-12T12:17:00.000+11:00Neil, sorry to be dumb, but I did not understand y...Neil, sorry to be dumb, but I did not understand your first comment. Care to amplify?<BR/><BR/>On your second comment, when did Ashok arrive at SBHS? This must have been about 1955?<BR/><BR/>I ask because I am trying to scope some elements of the Australian interaction with Asia. The first Asian students arrived at TAS about 1959 or 60. <BR/><BR/>The Australian involvement with Asia went in waves. Woolgoolga is interesting in part because it so unique. But it also draws out a conflict - the Sikh community grew in the midst of the White Australia policy. So we have sub-content settlement as a time that this should not have been possible.<BR/><BR/>See what I mean? We need to know what actually happened and when.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-15852954464332150282008-10-12T11:33:00.000+11:002008-10-12T11:33:00.000+11:001. Technical: after changing colour as in your quo...1. Technical: after changing colour as in your quote to "add value to others." you need to close the font tag. /font between <><BR/><BR/>2. Sir William Slim I do recall visiting SBHS when I was a lad, one of my best friends then being one Ashok Hegde, though he was here as the son of a diplomat (or Assistant Indian Trade Commissioner) not as a migrant. He went on to St Paul's School in London. He was the only Indian at SBHS at that time -- 1/750+.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com