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Bageshri Savyasachi

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India in Australia

Sydney-based Ben Chapple is fundraising for Adivasi COVID-relief

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  Kiwi by birth and Indophile by choice, volunteer Ben Chapple’s tryst with India first began on a trip to Chandigarh as a mature age...
Health & Wellness

Let’s talk about sex: Sexual health literacy survey by UoW

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  Lecturer in Sexology at the University of Sydney, Dr Vijay Ramanathan is actively working to improve sexual health literacy within the Indian community and...
Diaspora

Wildlife photographer Aditya Nair captures ‘the essence of Africa’

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  23-year-old Aditya Nair’s photo ‘The Murderous Pharaoh’ was highly commended in this year’s Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year competition.   Nair's stunning capture taken on...
Australia

The Hunger Project: Helping women in rural India stand for office

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  Shahida Bano of Rajasthan and Prabha Mehra of Uttarakhand are among a new breed of elected women representatives in India’s local governments who are...
Education

Himanshu Singh’s EdTech start-up wins UNSW’s entrepreneur challenge

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  First-year business student Himanshu Singh’s early-stage entrepreneurship idea for an education technology (EdTech) company has won first prize in UNSW’s prestigious Peter Farrell Cup...
Books

Fiji-Baat: A children’s series about language and identity

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  Before we got to Fiji, I had never really talked to Nana. Mum would sometimes give me the phone to say hello. I would...
Reviews

REVIEW: Skater Girl (Netflix)

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  Director Manjari Makijany is best known for her award-winning short films; however, her debut feature film Skater Girl on Netflix is a wonderfully moving...
India in Australia

Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021: Assoc Prof Ramesh Balasubramaniam, OAM

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  Associate Professor Ramesh Balasubramaniam from the University of Western Australia has been recognised for his significant contributions to dentistry and the field of Oral...
Books

The Big Book of Festivals: a children’s guide to global cultures

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  “Vedhika and Ayaan light diyas, thought to help guide the goddess Lakshmi into people’s homes, bringing fortune and luck.” “Kareem wishes his grandfather Eid Mubarak...
Visual arts

Professor Chandini Raina MacIntyre by Karen Black at the Archibald

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  During COVID-19 lockdown, when Sydney-based artist Karen Black was following the news intently, eminent epidemiologist Professor Chandini Raina Macintyre was a recurring figure in...
Visual arts

Kirthana Selvaraj in her ‘green suit‘ at the Archibald

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  The glaring portrait of a fashionably dressed “femme queer brown” artist awaits aesthetes at this year’s Archibald Prize exhibition. Sydney-based Kirthana Selvaraj’s self-portrait is...
Reviews

REVIEW: Karnan (Amazon Prime)

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  All about giving power to the masses and reeking of revolutionary stink, this review finds that Karnan is an instant classic. The Tamil action...
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