Meet Dr Satish Gupta, Menaka Iyengar, and Bindi Shah — changemakers honoured with OAMs in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours for their lifelong service to community, multiculturalism and humanitarian leadership.
After settling in Australia, the brothers have dedicated themselves to teaching and performing traditional South Indian Carnatic music here in Melbourne.
Two remarkable Australians have received the Public Service Medal in the King’s Birthday 2025 Honours for their life-saving and nation-building contributions, as the list recognises 830 recipients—up nearly 30% since Australia Day.
Prof. Gita Devi Mishra AO and Dr Sajeev Koshy OAM honoured for their outstanding contributions to medical research and dental health leadership, respectively.
Among the 830 awardees are inspiring Indian-origin Australians recognised for their achievements across medicine, music, multiculturalism, diplomacy, and community service.
Jaydipsinh's brother-in-law has confirmed his death, and the Hindu Council of Australia is now assisting the family with the repatriation of his body to India.
“When I arrived in Australia in 2012 at age 19 to study a business degree, I never thought my part-time job would become the biggest business lesson of all.”
Along with China, the so-called Asian Tigers and lately India, are all transforming from ‘Third World” economies to “First World” economies within a span of one generation.
Overseas-born individuals now make up 32 per cent of the country’s estimated population of 27.6 million—approaching the historic peak of 32.4 per cent recorded in 1891.
