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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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Entertainment

Review: Baakki Vaanavar (The Leftovers)

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Few feature-film debuts hit the mark quite as well as Amal Prasi’s Baakki Vannavar (The Leftovers) does. Created by a team of former students from...
Australia

Federal Govt launches multicultural framework review

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The Federal Government is calling on Australia’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities to share their perspectives on multiculturalism for the Federal Government’s Multicultural...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Dr Shireen Morris

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Dr SHIREEN MORRIS is a constitutional lawyer and Director of Macquarie University’s Radical Centre Reform Lab. A key convenor of the Multicultural Australia for the Voice...
Arts

Six young Aussie Desi musicians to follow

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  There’s never been a better time to listen local; our very own home-grown artists like Tame Impala, Amyl and the Sniffers, and Troye Sivan...
Arts

South Asians shine in Fresh Blood 3 funding cohort

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Three out of ten teams commissioned for the ABC and Screen Australia’s Fresh Blood initiative include or are entirely comprised of South Asian artists,...
Beauty

Gender-agnostic fashion shines at India Couture Week

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  There was no shortage of sparkle at this year’s India Couture Week, with the country’s best and brightest designers presenting their latest creations from...
India in Australia

The unbelievable story of Charan Dass

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  In 2017, Charan Dass arrives at his job interview for Rom Control, an industrial electronics service centre in Southeast Melbourne. He wears a reasonably...
India in Australia

Family violence: Vic Govt funds culture specific programs

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The Victorian State Government has announced it will deliver an additional $1.61 million to 23 multicultural and faith organisations delivering community-based family violence projects,...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Sanjith Konda House

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  This month, we talk to Mr. Chai himself! Sanjith Konda House is the founder of Dropout Chaiwala, Melbourne's first street chai cafe located in...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Shahmen Suku

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  A performance artist living and working between Sydney and Canberra, Shahmen Suku tells stories of cultural identity, gender roles, displacement and the kitchen through...
Food

Google celebrates pani puri world record in latest Google Doodle

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  On July 12th, 2015, Indori Zayka, a restaurant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, together with Hindi-language newspaper Dainik Bhaskar, achieved the world record for serving...
India in Australia

Rajendraji changed his life with yoga – and you can too

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Twenty years ago, Rajendra Yenkannamoole, known to the community as Rajendraji, felt his inner voice calling for something more in life. Working in marketing...
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