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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 Ahona Guha

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  What do you think mental health policy will look under this government, and is it enough to address the sector crisis? Dr Ahona Guha: ...
Books

Kannada book ‘Heart Lamp’ wins International Booker Prize 2025

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, has become the first Kannada language book to win the International Booker Prize. Published as...
India in Australia

Mia Kappadath: My mother, in her own words.

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  Our Mother’s Day series ‘My Mum in her own words’ pays tribute to our mothers, showcasing the intergenerational bond between mother and child. Here,...
India in Australia

Karandeep Gujral: My mother, in her own words

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  Our Mother’s Day series ‘My Mum in her own words’ pays tribute to our mothers, showcasing the intergenerational bond between mother and child. Here, restaurateur...
India in Australia

Rani Gupta-Glavan: My mother, in her own words

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Our Mother’s Day series ‘My Mum in her own words’ pays tribute to our mothers, showcasing the intergenerational bond between mother and child. Here,...
India in Australia

Dharma Down Under: ‘Ancient path, modern feet’

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  Performing unfamiliar scenes from Ramayana is not how most people think an 18–30-year-old South Asian Australian would spend a Sunday evening – yet it’s...
India in Australia

Indian born Australian population biggest growth in 10 yrs

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The number of Indian born Australians has more than doubled over the last 10 years, the largest increase according to latest Australian Bureau of...
India in Australia

Brown women up front in Holt

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  In the Outer Metropolitan Victorian electorate of Holt, an exciting moment for Indian Australians in politics – for what might well be the first...
Entertainment

‘Urvi Went To An All Girls’ School’: an outsider in the spotlight

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Comedian Urvi Majumdar says one of the best aspects of working on her ABC comedy pilot was finally feeling understood in a writer’s room. “It...
Arts

Vijay Thillaimuthu’s sonic ‘Oblation’ to his ancestors

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  As with many acts of worship, Vijay Thillaimuthu’s latest sonic performance for AsiaTOPA, ‘Oblation’ began with fire, first conceptualised during the time of the...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Amrit Gill

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  Where does soft power such as the arts sit within the India-Australia relationship and how is this evolving?  At CAIR, we have a strategic plan...
Music

TUSHAR and the new golden age of Indie(an) music

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  You’d be forgiven for thinking Indie pop artist Tushar Singh, known by moniker TUSHAR, was born and brought up in Brunswick. Chatting to him in...
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