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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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Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Parvyn Kaur Singh

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Cutting Chai with Lakshmi Ganapathy is a monthly series of bite-sized interviews with prominent South Asians showcasing their career and personality and celebrating their South...
Entertainment

Family, fractured: R Gowtham on ‘Members of the Problematic Family’

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  A man dies. His family give him a funeral. And beneath the absurd pageantry of the last rites, they wrestle with the void created...
Science, Technology & Innovation

Dr Kiran Trivedi’s AI device turns mosquito hums into life-saving insights

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  The Indian monsoon arrives with its unmistakable soundtrack: the whine of mosquitoes, and the seasonal spike in malaria and dengue that follows. But Associate Professor...
Arts

Chords and colours coalesce in Nainita Desai’s ‘Tessellation’

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  Emmy-winning British-Asian composer Nainita Desai is no stranger to weaving musical journeys. But being invited to create Tessellation, a 30-minute score for Bruce Munro’s...
Arts

Dr Vikrant Kishore: “Talking about casteism is talking about humanity”

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  “I never meant to make this film, but caste has a way of travelling borders quietly,” narrates Dr Vikrant Kishore near the start of...
Entertainment

What to look forward to at this year’s IFFM

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  Featuring over 130 films in 36 languages, this year’s Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is sure to have something for your taste. From retrospectives to...
India in Australia

CAIR awards $10 million across Maitri Grants 2025-2026

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  Bilateral Olympics planning, a film on an Australian stuntwoman in Indian films, and research into drought-resistant crops are just some of the projects sharing...
India in Australia

Monash Uni Professor keeping Indian freight trains running

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  When we last wrote about Professor Ravi Ravitharan following his 2014 Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA) Award win, we called him ‘the railway...
India in Australia

When Top End mob met Western Ghats Adivasis

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  On a trip to Kerala’s Periyar Tiger Reserve, something clicked for Professor Kamaljit Sangha that led to a beautiful cultural exchange.  Having worked with Indigenous...
Arts

‘And What Will People Say’ is breaking the silence on DV

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While serving on the board of a women and children’s shelter, Kersherka Sivakumaran often found herself navigating moments of cultural misunderstanding. “There were a few...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Sonia Sarangi

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Cutting Chai with Lakshmi Ganapathy is a monthly series of bite-sized interviews with prominent South Asians showcasing their career and personality and celebrating their South...
India in Australia

Hopes and expectations as Melbourne awaits Modi

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  Melbourne’s Indian community are in the grips of Modi mania as they count down the days to the Indian Prime Minister’s reception on the...
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