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Lakshmi Ganapathy

Lakshmi is Melbourne Content Creator for Indian Link and the winner of the VMC's 2024 Multicultural Award for Excellence in Media. Best known for her monthly youth segment 'Cutting Chai' and her historical video series 'Linking History' which won the 2024 NSW PMCA Award for 'Best Audio-Visual Report', she is also a highly proficient arts journalist, selected for ArtsHub's Amplify Collective in 2023.
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Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Neha Madhok

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Cutting Chai with Lakshmi Ganapathy is a monthly series of bite-sized interviews with prominent South Asians showcasing their career and personality and celebrating their...
India in Australia

Jagdeep Sukhija and Mahendra Patel honoured at Victorian Seniors Awards 2026

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  Jagdeep Sukhija, founder of Compassionate Hands Inc, and Mahendrakumar Patel of United Seniors Club have been honoured for their contributions at the 2026 Victorian...
Sports

Lt Meera Hyderabad is swapping khaki for green and gold on GG XI squad

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  At the time she’s talking to me, Lieutenant Meera Hyderabad is travelling to Sydney for the biggest match of her cricket career. Selected as this...
Opinion

Vic Election 2026: The ‘orange wave’ is coming. Are we ready for it?

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  With seven weeks till what Antony Green calls the most consequential state election in his lifetime, the haze is slowly clearing on voting intentions...
India in Australia

Mish Kumar-Jonson: Honouring hidden identities

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  For Mish Kumar-Jonson, being inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women is about ‘coming back to the communities they represent’.  “There’s so many non-binary...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Neha Kale

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Cutting Chai with Lakshmi Ganapathy is a monthly series of bite-sized interviews with prominent South Asians showcasing their career and personality and celebrating their...
India in Australia

‘Namaste Westside’: helping Indian visitors see the best of Melbourne’s west

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  There’s nothing worse than venturing on a family day out and finding out there’s no vegetarian food options nearby, or nowhere for Dadi-ji to...
Science, Tech & Business

Meet Revant Pandey, Geelong’s 16yo AI innovator

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  Revant Pandey can trace his love of programming back to a Bangalore-bound flight six years ago, where he was sat next to a passenger...
India in Australia

Student visa changes target ‘visa hopping’ and families

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has unveiled changes to skilled worker and student visas which will eliminate secondary visa holders and curb 'visa hopping'. Speaking...
Science, Tech & Business

The RMIT researchers solving our big micropollution problem

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Small particles, massive problem. Micropollutants are polluting our waterways, our air, our soil and even our organs. But an Australian invention quickly removing these hazardous...
India in Australia

South Asian Students shine at Vic Parliament Prize 2026

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  In a rare hat trick, South Asian students have dazzled the competition at the Victorian Parliament Prize 2026, taking out first place in all...
Arts

S. Shakthidharan: “If a family can keep love alive…there’s hope a country can.”

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  Lakshmi Ganapathy: I want to start by congratulating you on ‘The Jungle and the Sea’; the night I saw it, there wasn’t a single...
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