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Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021: Dr Selvanayagam Selvendra, OAM By Rajni Anand Luthra Source:-indianlink It was with characteristic humility that Dr Selvendra OAM accepted congratulations for his Queen’s Birthday honour. “I’m grateful to the Australian government for recognising my services to the community,” he said with understated elegance. He received the honour this year for service to multicultural organisations, and to medicine. Much of Melbourne’s recent Hindu migrants might not have heard of Dr Selvendra, but they would all have visited community hotspots that he launched, or participated in iconic annual events that he began decades ago. Foremost among these are three well-known places of worship that Dr Selvendra has seen grow from small-scale gathering spots to large community structures that now welcome prime ministers and public figures. These include the Hindu Society of Victoria’s Shiva Vishnu Temple, which sits on 15 acres of land at Carrum Downs. Dr Selvendra was a ...