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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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Arts

Ananya’s ready to make a splash at VSSS

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Singer Ananya Hariharan remembers when she first found out about the annual Victorian State School Spectacular (VSSS), via a Facebook ad her dad saw...
Arts

Nethra Raman on The Voice: ‘Music is about telling stories’

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Nethra Raman remembers her Blind Audition for The Voice vividly; saying goodbye to her family to walk on stage was the longest silence of...
Arts

Melbourne Fringe 2024: South Asian links

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
SOUTH ASIAN DANCE AT MELBOURNE FRINGE 2024 Echoes of Her: A Kathak Celebration Since Heeramandi, Kathak’s come back in a big way, and this piece will...
India in Australia

Omkar Palav ‘nose’ he’s Officially Amazing

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Many dream of achieving greatness, but few have what it takes to be ‘Officially Amazing’… Enter 37-year-old Omkar Palav, who has made history in perhaps...
Entertainment

IFFM 2024 blinds Melbourne with star power

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Just three years on from Melbourne’s lockdowns, the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2024 is back on top, drawing formidable crowds and delivering...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Kano Ravalji

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Krushnadevsinh (Kano) Ravalji is a public speaker and MC sharing messages of inclusion, anti-racism and acceptance. He is currently Youth Commissioner at the Victorian...
India in Australia

‘My Melbourne’ premiere sets the tone for an inclusive 15th IFFM

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
As Australia’s Indian community hoisted the tricolour and danced gaily to mark India’s 77th Independence Day, a film celebrating the diversity of Melbourne had...
Food

The Taste of India: A culinary tribute to the land we love

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Whether in 1947 or 2024, India has always been a melting pot of cultures, faiths, and languages, and we wouldn’t have it any other...
Bollywood

What to look forward to at the most ambitious IFFM yet

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  It’s August, and if you’re a cinema enthusiast in Melbourne, you know what time it is… Boasting a smorgasbord of films from across the subcontinent,...
India in Australia

Search continues for missing Truganina teen Krishank Karthik

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Family and friends of Krishank ‘Krish’ Karthik are continuing to search for the missing 16-year-old after his disappearance on Monday morning. Krishank’s father Karthik Krishnamurthy...
India in Australia

$100m pledged as Multicultural Framework Review report released

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The Federal Government has been handed the Multicultural Framework Review's report yesterday (24 July), the largest comprehensive review of multicultural policy since the Whitlam...
Entertainment

Sharon Johal on the Twelve’s Khalsa lead Parvinder Sangar

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  When Sharon Johal was cast as Parvinder Sangar in the latest series of Binge’s jury drama The Twelve, she couldn’t contain her excitement. “I wrote...
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