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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

Pratishthan volunteers plant 1600 trees in four hours

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  A tree plantation drive organised by the Melbourne branch of not-for-profit group Dr. Shri Nanasaheb Dharmadhikari Pratishthan successfully reforested the vital Cherry Lake Buffer...
Health & Wellness

Find your new favourite yoga influencer this International Yoga Day

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  So it’s the UN’s International Day of Yoga and you’ve got a hankering to try some asanas. If Modi ji can do it, why...
Arts

Sidharth Chandran: ‘An Unspoken Story’

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  Understanding and supporting neurodiversity and creating an equitable future for the Autistic community is something to work towards every day. Sidharth Chandran is one...
India in Australia

How ‘Sisterworks’ changed Poonam Jeet’s life

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  Like so many of us who’ve moved to Australia from overseas, Poonam Jeet Sokhi and her family were spurred by adventure and the promise...
Arts

Dr Priya Srinivasan’s ‘The Durga Chronicles’ wins Green Room Award

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  Contemporary arts performance The Durga Chronicles has won the 2023 Breaking Ground award in Dance at this year’s Green Room Awards, announced this week. Staged...
Arts

The unSensored brilliance of mOTHERTONGUE

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When it comes to making a statement through art, New Delhi-based artist Mithu Sen is never one to mince her words. Funnily enough, she...
Lifestyle

South Asian heart health has never been more important

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  According to the Heart Foundation, heart disease kills one Australian every 18 minutes. It’s been the leading cause of death in Australia for the...
Books

Desi reads at this year’s Melbourne and Sydney Writers Festivals

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  May is here, and with it two of the biggest events on the country’s literary calendar; the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) will take place...
Entertainment

Desis dazzle on the red carpet: Met Gala 2023

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  ‘Fashion’s Biggest Night’, the Met Gala, is back for 2023, and this year our South Asian celebs are decked in homages to the late...
India in Australia

Masterchef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo dies age 46

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Masterchef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo has passed away in Melbourne on Sunday at the age of 46. The Scottish-Australian chef was a host on the...
Visual arts

Past and future collide in Manasee Jog’s printmaking exhibition

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  Visual artist Manasee Jog’s latest printmaking exhibition began in the swirls of a washing machine. Five years ago, she migrated from Bengaluru to Australia, and...
India in Australia

Ratan Tata conferred honorary Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

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  Prominent Indian industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata has received an honorary appointment to Australia’s highest civilian award, the Officer of the Order of Australia...
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