A quick chat with Sandy Gandhi, our most Easterly Indian and now author
July 19, 2008
Australia’s most ‘Easterly Indian’, the well-travelled Byron Bay stand-up comic Sandy Gandhi, is about to launch her first book, Enlighten Up. She took time out from her busy schedule for a quick chat with Far North Coaster …
Can you give a brief rundown of your life?
Born in New Delhi, India, came to Australia (Melbourne) at the age of 12, worked as travel agent/tour operator for 20 years, worked in Melbourne and Sydney in Oz as well as PNG, the UK, Holland, the USA, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar.
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Enlighten Up: Sandy Gandhi’s first book
July 19, 2008
Published by Melbourne Books
- Paperback RRP$23.95
- ISBN 9781877096020
- August release with launch at Byron Bay Writers Festival at the end of July.
The following is from the introduction to the book by author Di Morrissey:
Sandy Gandhi is an institution in Byron Bay.
As Australia’s most ‘Easterly Indian’ (she claims there was one other, but she shot him!), her verbal jousting, quick quips and wild humour have endeared her to stand-up comedy audiences in Byron and beyond.
What or who really influences children?
April 14, 2008
What has more influence over our children: Paris Hilton, The Simpsons, Facebook, mobile phones, trendy brands, sexy media messages … or you?
That is one of the questions that will be explored by Associate Professor Karen Brooks, pictured, at a public lecture at Southern Cross University’s Lismore campus on April 30.
Professor Brooks, who took up an appointment in the media department in SCU’s School of Arts and Social Sciences at the start of the year, has recently released a book ‘Consuming Innocence: Popular Culture and Our Children’.
In the book, she explores the complex relationship that tots, tweens and teens — never mind adults — have with popular culture.
Judy’s surfing life came 40 years too early
April 2, 2008
Women’s surfing has grown to become among Australia’s most popular female sports, and if you’re good enough, there’s money to be made and exotic locations beckon.
However, the women’s surfing scene today is a world away from the sport’s beginnings in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Judy Gibbon wonders what might have been had she been born 40 years later. Read more
