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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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India in Australia

Dr. Sunila Shrivastava OAM: Australia Day Honours 2025

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  As a daughter of Indian Freedom Fighter J.L. Verma, Dr. Sunila Shrivastava OAM says serving the community has always been in her blood.   “My...
India in Australia

Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa OAM: Australia Day Honours 2025

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa OAM still remembers the pivotal moment she stood on the Australia’s Got Talent stage to perform her poetry almost ten years...
India in Australia

Sandhya Parappukkaran’s delectable picture books

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Sandhya Parappukkaran can’t remember a time in her life where she didn’t love going to the library. “That's what we did back when I was...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Shanul Sharma

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
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 South...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Prabha Nandagopal: courage and compassion

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  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 South...
India in Australia

UNSW’s Beach Ocean Safe: battling South Asian drowning statistics

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
Twenty-three-year-old Harsha Vardhan Reddy Dwarakacharla had never been swimming before coming to Australia. But when he migrated to study a Masters of Telecommunication at...
India in Australia

Fostering community: ASAC Stellar South Asian Women Awards

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Yasmin Khan, the dedicated director of an unfunded voluntary domestic abuse support service, Onisha Patel, a pioneering structural biologist who identified a rare blood...
India in Australia

Leaders weigh in on neo-Nazis at Guru Nanak Lake rally

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The presence of neo-Nazis at a community gathering organised by Victorian Liberal MPs, part of the ongoing feud over the Victorian State Government’s renaming...
Arts

Review: Bandini at La Mama HQ

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
Bandini at La Mama HQ: 3/5 stars Family violence in Melbourne’s South Asian community is a pressing issue which has sadly become timelier with the...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Auntyji: changing the world, one piece of advice at a time

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
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...
Business & Entrepreneurship

Victoria’s politicians curry favour with South Asian voters

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The political relevance of the Indian-Australian community requires no understating, particularly in Victoria, which has the largest and fastest growing Indian community in the...
India in Australia

Minister Jaishankar’s jam-packed four-day visit to Australia

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has visited Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney on his second visit to Australia this year, part of a...
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