India and Australia.

Recently Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Australia for a high level diplomatic G20 talks but his visit was not just decimated by the ending of G20, Mr. Modi was from the very next day of closing of G-20 was on bilateral talks between the two nation.

Today, Australia and India are mainly connected by two things, cricket and food. In Australia, there is an uncanny craze among people for food. In Sydney only more than 200 Indian cuisine restaurants are there and butter chicken etc. dishes are the most favored ones in the Australian continent; the other thread that binds us with this nation is cricket. Cricket has always been a craze for both the nations and an unusual charm has always been there in the cricket tournaments of Australia and India.

But to scramble up the success ladder, we need to move past the cricket and cuisine to have some serious talks.

Contemporarily, India and Australia are standing on a platform where they need each other humongously. There is hardly any field where the two significant nations of the world can’t cooperation to get the best results out. In importing, exporting, gold, coal, education sector, everywhere both the nations want a partner like each other and that’s why this promising relationship surely holds the potential of reaching beyond cricket and curry.

These two nations are today, significant players in the world politics and hence need to be a good partner of each other too in order to improve their horizons in many other fields. If we go according to the current pattern, then you will notice that the bilateral trade which amounted for 4.3 billion Australian dollar reached the limit of 18.7 billion USD in the year 2010 and the trade can be hiked up to $40 billion till the end of the year 2016.

If we talk about the military sector, then too both the nations are helping each other tremendously. In year 2007, both conducted a joint naval exercise in the Indian Ocean termed Malabar 2007, while Australia is also supposed to soon lock a uranium selling agreement with India. Australia’s huge uranium reserved can be used on the Indian soil in order to produce more energy in India to help lighten up the lights of its citizens.

In the year 2009, it was calculated that there are around 3,90,894 person of Indian origin residing in Australia and if we count in them the NRIs etc. the figure would cross the half million mark. Owning to this, Australia is also a huge destination for Indian students. In every top universities of Australia, you can find Indian nationality included in the top three nationalities.

India can benefit much from Australia while on the other hand, Australia can benefit from India through its imports of coal, gold etc. from India and now with programs like Make in India, Australian investors can also come to India to invest and find the best workforce.

This relationship surely holds a lot of potential, what we need to do is to realize the potential and work according to that.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI