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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

Indian Ink’s ‘Balloon Dog’ is Tagore for our trying times

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  What does a Rabindranath Tagore story from the 1800s have to do with our current debate over immigration? A lot, according to Indian Ink Theatre...
India in Australia

#MyWork: Acting Sgt Rajesh Sambamurthy, Vic Police

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  What drew you to policing? Acting Sgt Rajesh Sambamurthy: Back in 2012, there was a gang rape case, Nirbhaya. That was a spark for...
Visual arts

Shaun Christie-David Archibald portrait captures the ‘could-be’ moments

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  It’s one thing to have dinner with your husband’s cousin, and another to paint a portrait of him for Australia’s biggest portrait prize. Christie-David...
India in Australia

Melbourne Indian families lose $60,000 in AVG Travels collapse

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Earlier this year, Arun Jhunjhunwala and 15 other Indian Australian families from Tarneit booked their dream holiday to China through AVG Travels. AVG Travels...
India in Australia

Nikhil Chaudhary to play T20 for Australia

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Nikhil Chaudhary, Australia Cricket Nikhil Chaudhary could be the first Indian-born man to play for Australia in 60 years, following his selection for the Australia’s...
India in Australia

Kaushal Ottem: MBA at 18, Startup at 23

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Despite completing a Masters degree aged 18, Kaushal Ottem never really liked school. Temporarily bedridden at the age of seven after being hit by a...
Education

UNSW to open Bengaluru campus by August 2026

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The University of New South Wales will establish its first international campus in Bengaluru, with classes set to begin in August this year. Located at...
India in Australia

Dr Abhishek Verma OAM: King’s Birthday Honours 2026

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  When Melbourne’s Dr Abhishek Verma first found out he was getting an OAM, he didn’t believe it. “I thought this has got to be some...
India in Australia

Professor Bala Venkatesh AM: King’s Birthday Honours 2026

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  In the 1800s, U V Swaminatha Iyer (known affectionately as Tamil Thaataa) painstakingly rebuilt Tamil scholarship, restoring lost texts and revitalising the language for future generations.   Is it any surprise that Professor Balasubramaniam Venkatesh,...
Arts

Review: The Supposed to Be at RISING, Footscray Community Arts

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Imagine if you could clone yourself and live the life you always wanted to before you succumbed to migrant family pressures? the supposed to...
Arts

Bobby Matharu’s exhibition: sea, sky and a Satinder Sartaaj stopover

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Bobby Matharu has spent a lot of his life observing nature - from the sky, the land, the sea. As an enjoyer of adventure...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Nakul Legha

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
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...
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