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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

A tale of two Little Indias

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  Little India in Dandenong has seen better days. Despite being Saturday afternoon, the place is a ghost town, nary a window shopper in sight. The...
India in Australia

Docklands community reject Little India proposal

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  'An unnecessary spend' and ‘a branding exercise' is some of the feedback the City of Melbourne have received on their proposed $1.2 million Little...
Arts

COVID and connection collide in ‘Camp Darwin’

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Though over six years ago, Arjun Raina still remembers his first moments on Australian soil, after being evacuated from India during the Delta wave...
India in Australia

Wyndham council vote no confidence in Preet Singh

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Wyndham City councillors have unanimously passed a vote of no confidence against their Mayor Preet Singh, who refused to resign amid a character reference...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Shaun Christie-David

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...
India in Australia

South Asian links at MWF and SWF 2026

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
Turn the page on this year’s Melbourne and Sydney Writers Festivals, with headline international guest, Irish-Indian poet Nikita Gill, set to share her bestseller...
India in Australia

‘A national disaster’: Indian truckies endure fuel shortage

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  As the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, and the price of diesel surges, the trucking and transport industries are continuing to feel the pinch. Today’s...
Arts

Mark Silcox: Striking comedy gold

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Stop me if you’ve heard this one before; a comedian called Mark Silcox walks on stage at a comedy club in England to tell...
India in Australia

MICF 2026 features over 30 unmissable South Asian acts

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Another year, another barrel of laughs waiting to be opened – from big names like Urvi Majumdar, Dilruk Jayasinha and Nazeem Hussain, to international...
Arts

‘I was prepared to shoot this on an iPhone’: Bina Bhattacharya on ‘From All Sides’

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  A middle-aged, multiracial couple convene in a swinger’s bar, have a spectacular orgy, and then argue with their kids about fabric softener - it’s...
India in Australia

Rental racism rampant in Victoria

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Arbitrary extra cleaning, additional paperwork and being rejected for a property based on their names or accents are just some of the shocking instances...
India in Australia

Giving to Gain : South Asian women in NFPs for IWD

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
Give to Gain International Women’s Day invites us to reflect on the strength of women, the power of community, and the quiet ways women lift...
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