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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

Bharatanatyam meets Ballet in TOUCH

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Deepa Mani and Sheena Chundee both say dance chose them. As a five-year-old, Mani cried her way through Bharatanatyam classes, later finding a passion for...
Arts

‘To the Death’ is skewering casting room tokenism

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Menik Gooneratne and Yasmin Kassim weren’t always friends. The two South Asian Australian actors were once starting out in Australia’s limited film industry, and...
Entertainment

Deportation, pollution and TikTok collide in ‘The Disposables’

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The refugee crisis, overconsumption, and mass illness are just a handful of the colossal themes tackled in new youth drama series The Disposables, the...
Arts

Bhairavi and Nanthesh: reconciling identity through music

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Bhairavi Raman was six years old when she first picked up a violin, drawn to the instrument after hearing her mother play. When she...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Urvi Majumdar

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Urvi Majumdar is a Melbourne-based stand-up comedian, writer, and producer, who has appeared on ABC’s Fisk and Channel 9’s Metro Sexual and currently writes for...
Arts

Priyanka Jain: reviving picture recitation traditions

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  It’s often said pictures speak louder than words - artist Priyanka Jain knows this all too well, completing a practice-based PhD at RMIT University...
India in Australia

Indian-led tech unicorn Fractal expands to Melbourne

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Fractal, an Indian-led tech startup specialising in cutting-edge AI and analytics services will scale up its operations in Melbourne with the support of State...
India in Australia

Exercise Malabar: Local Indian-Australian connections

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Concluding last week, Exercise Malabar saw the Royal Australian Navy’s HMAS Brisbane, HMAS Choules and an Australian submarine joined by Indian Navy Ships Kolkata...
Education

Shaurya Kansal receives UOW VC Scholarship

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Shaurya Kansal, an 18-year-old from Meerut, India, has received the University of Wollongong’s (UOW) Vice-Chancellor’s Leadership Scholarship – India, aimed at encouraging the next...
India in Australia

Metakosmos: One small step for Vyom

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  If you’ve been watching the livestream of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, you’re bound to be wondering when we’ll get to the...
Bollywood

Onir: ‘Why are straight people still telling our stories?’

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Celebrated filmmaker Onir recently travelled to Melbourne for the Australian premiere of his latest film Pine Cone at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne...
Entertainment

Stay in and watch these IFFM films

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  If there’s anything we’ve learnt from the pandemic, it’s that one of life’s great pleasures is staying in to watch a movie. Gone are the...
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