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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

Professor Manjula Datta O’Connor named Victorian Senior of the Year 2024

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Professor Manjula Datta O’Connor has received the 2024 Premier’s Award for Victorian Senior of the Year, for her work raising awareness around dowry abuse. The...
India in Australia

A bumper Melbourne Diwali Saturday: three events in one day!

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  It seems like each year Diwali in Melbourne is bigger and better. Case in point, Saturday 26th of October, when not one, but three major...
India in Australia

Diwali 2024: What lights up your life?

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The bright lights of Diwali (also known as Deepawali) are here, and with it comes warmth, festivities and love. Regardless of what denomination you...
India in Australia

Thirty years strong and a new announcement

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  To mark 30 years of impact on the multicultural media landscape, Indian Link Media Group will announce a new scholarship in partnership with a...
India in Australia

Racism rife for Women of Colour at work

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  A new workplace report has found two thirds of Women of Colour (WoC) have experienced workplace discrimination, a 10 percent increase from 2021. The report...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Anushka Phal

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...
India in Australia

A visionary, a titan: Australia’s Indian community mourn Ratan Tata

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  Ratan Naval Tata, pioneering industrialist and the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, has passed away on October 9 at the Breach Candy Hospital following...
Arts

‘The Axe in the Ceiling’ and the absurdity of arranged marriage

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  In the height of Melbourne’s 2020 lockdown, Jaya Berged wasn’t making sourdough or cutting her own hair but poring over Grimm’s Fairytales with collaborator...
Books

‘My superhero voice’ starting conversations on child sexual abuse

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  A picture book created in collaboration with the Australian Government aims to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse in multicultural communities. Launching last week...
India in Australia

Clusters, chagrin & first-time candidates: Victorian LGA elections

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  It’s time again for Victorians in 79 LGAs to elect representatives, and it’s already shaping up to be a changeabout. Except for those within the...
Entertainment

Migration, marriage, desire: Mithila Gupta on ‘Four Years Later’

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Is it any surprise Mithila Gupta, creator of SBS’s latest romance drama Four Years Later loves Shah Rukh Khan? An eight-episode series following Jaipur newlyweds...
Entertainment

‘The Rose Garden’ screening sparks mental health conversations

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  How long does it take to rebuild family bonds that have ruptured? Nidhya Suresh’s ‘The Rose Garden’ explores this question in the form of...
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