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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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Science, Technology & Innovation

Chris Bowen: India a ‘top-rank’ renewable energy partnership

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has described India and Australia’s renewable energy partnership as ‘top-rank’. Minister Bowen joined Australian and Indian energy...
Arts

Aditya Gautam: Bringing people together through comedy

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  ADITYA GAUTAM is a Noida-born, Melbourne-based stand-up comedian and author of ‘Pornistan: How to Survive the Porn Epidemic in India’. Aditya Gautam was a...
India in Australia

ECCV report finds majority of racism incidents go unreported

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  A new anti-racism research report launched on Tuesday in Melbourne has found the majority of racist incidents experienced in Victoria go unreported. Surveying more than...
India in Australia

Simarpal Kaur and Pushp Sidhu: Indian women redefining policing

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Indian mums in their 40s aren’t exactly what first comes to mind when thinking about a police sergeant. But look a bit deeper at...
Stage

Christopher Gurusamy: A dancer making an emotional connection

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Christopher Gurusamy is a Bharatanatyam soloist based between Sydney and Chennai, who trained at the prestigious Kalakshetra institution, performing internationally to critical acclaim. Named...
Arts

Growing Up Indian In Australia: Review

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The wonderful thing about anthologies is the sheer variety on offer; there’s something for everyone, an assortment of voices all pointing in their own...
India in Australia

Guruswamy Perumal: a life through the lens

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The year is 1994, and Aishwarya Rai has just won Miss World. Every press outlet in the country amasses at Delhi’s Taj Palace, eagerly...
India in Australia

Sakshi Thakur OAM: King’s Birthday Honours

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  For entrepreneur Sakshi Thakur, eliminating poverty all comes back to empowering women. “I truly believe women are going to be the reason we might break...
India in Australia

Niharika Hiremath OAM: King’s Birthday Honours 2024

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Mental health and lived experience advocate Niharika Hiremath has been recognised with an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her services to community health...
Arts

Dr Priya Srinivasan on Asia Pacific Arts Awards and Revive policy

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Dr Priya Srinivasan has received the inaugural Impact Award at the Asia Pacific Arts Awards, held by Creative Australia at the Parramatta Riverside Theatre...
Books

Support a South Asian writer: Sydney and Brisbane Writers Fest

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  It’s the time of year where we’d rather not be out and about in the freezing weather (or at least, the paltry 11 degrees...
Arts

Actor Vaishnavi Suryaprakash: Starting conversations

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  VAISHNAVI SURYAPRAKASH is a Sydney-based actor, dramaturge, dancer and performance maker. She is currently starring in Belvoir St Theatre’s performance of Nayika: A Dancing...
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