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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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Meet Talwinder, the graffiti artist repainting heritage

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Talwinder Singh’s never been the kind of guy to ponder and scrutinise. He much prefers freeform, impulse driven expression, the best philosophy for an...
India in Australia

One in seven experience racism at university, AHRC report finds

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Seventy percent of university staff and students have experienced indirect racism on university campuses, a study from the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has...
India in Australia

An Indian migration pulse check from the Scanlon Foundation

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Meet Sachin. Indian migration He moved to Melbourne over ten years ago, is in his mid-30s, is university educated, and is highly proficient in English....
India in Australia

Meet IYAV, the desi youth group redefining community

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  When Rhea Verma and Rashim Joshi first held a ‘Chai and Chat’ session in 2023, they thought nobody would show up. “We were very tight...
Stage

Review: Songs of the Bulbul at Arts Centre Melbourne

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Canonically, artists have always been yoked with tragedy; from Van Gogh to Beethoven, we can’t escape the romantic notion one must give themselves completely...
India in Australia

“A sorry thing”: Mahatma Gandhi statue stolen from Rowville’s Indian Centre

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Police in the Knox area are appealing for any information regarding the theft of a bronze  Mahatma Gandhi statue from outside the Australian Indian...
India in Australia

IndianCare’s Aao Khelo: Celebrating Indian women through sport

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Since June last year, at quotidian gyms across the outer east, west and north of Melbourne, Indian women have been gathering once a week...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Mannie Kaur Verma

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

Professor Annamarie Jagose OAM: Australia Day Honours 2026

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  University of Sydney Provost and Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Annamarie Jagose describes receiving an OAM as an ‘unexpected honour’. “It feels less a personal accolade...
India in Australia

Selliah Nalliah OAM: Australia Day Honours 2026

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Four days out from the announcement of the Australia Day honours, Selliah Nalliah OAM still has no clue who nominated him. But after 37 years...
India in Australia

Dipak Sanghvi AM: Australia Day Honours 2026

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  “Community is meant to support each other, look after each other; in philosophical words, humanity is community,” says Dipak Sanghvi, a man well acquainted with...
Sports

Indian links at the Australian Open 2026

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  We’re a nation known for cricket and great food - not tennis - but that doesn’t mean we can’t get behind some of our...
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