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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 Dr Abhishek Verma

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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...
Diaspora

How socioeconomic discontent is reshaping South Asia

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  It took just under 48 hours for Nepal’s government to be razed to the ground, the flame-eaten parliament building, a literal manifestation of a...
India in Australia

Victorian Multicultural Review promises major overhauls for social cohesion

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Multicultural Victoria, a grant values clause, and a whole-of-government strategy are just three of the major actions announced today with the release of the...
Music

Rohan Dasika’s musical reincarnation

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  For Rohan Dasika, the double bass has always inspired him to look inward. “The biggest thing for me is that feeling of disappearing for...
Arts

TOUCH review: Bharatanatyam-Ballet piece skims the surface

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  It’s a truth we’re all familiar with as People of Colour, and one that has certainly reared its head as of late; racism is...
Arts

South Asian Links at Melbourne and Sydney Fringe 2025

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Quirky comedy, a personalised Veena recital, and immersive theatre on domestic violence are some of the South Asian offerings this year. (Melbourne and Sydney...
Arts

‘Copy of the Copy’ and modern dance’s Indian influences

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  Bharatanatyam practitioner Dr Priya Srinivasan distinctly remembers her confusion at seeing the ‘mothers of modern dance’ Ruth St Denis and Martha Graham dressed like...
India in Australia

IFFM 2025 lets the films do the talking

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  Perhaps the organisers of IFFM took last year’s recap to heart, because IFFM 2025 has steered in the opposite direction of previous editions' celebrity-fuelled...
Stage

Review: The Last Dance at Knox Community Arts Centre

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  Following their successful Marathi-language production of Bandini as part of La Mama’s Festival of Tongues, Melbourne Indian Theatre (MiTheatre) have returned with an English-language...
India in Australia

Baksho Bondi opens the box on IFFM 2025

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  As far as opening nights go, The Indian Film Festival (IFFM) 2025 was less of a scream and more of a quiet cry, the...
India in Australia

Mother Tongues, Motherland – an ode to our many languages

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  What’s in a word? Sometimes, a whole world - of comfort, of connection, of memory carried gently through time. Indian languages in Australia To mark...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Saavni Krishnan

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  You’re making a name reinventing classic Indian cuisine with Australian produce. How do you arrive at some of your wilder pairings like Idly, trout...
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