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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

Veer Tangri: Golden Wickets, golden heart

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Ten-year-old Aaryaveer (Veer) Tangri remembers the moment when what he knew about sport changed.  On a trip to India in 2020, he noticed the kids...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Grace Vegesana

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  As climate activism shifts to highlight connections with issues like cost of living, how has this reframing affected engagement and impact? Grace Vegesana: I think...
India in Australia

Victoria says “Yes” to international students

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The Victorian State Government has followed through on a promise to invest $5 million into a ‘Say Yes to International Students Fund’, announcing the...
India in Australia

Vic Govt funds $190k of Indian community events

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Twenty-one Indian community organisations will receive funding to host multicultural festivals and events across Victoria from 1 July to 30 September 2025. This amounts to...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Rachel Castelino

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Rachel Castelino is the founder of Blume Prebiotic Tonic, a prebiotic soda start-up encouraging Australians to nourish their gut biomes, available in Harris Farm...
India in Australia

Brad Battin pledges justice system reform as key priority

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The Federal Liberal party are very much down and out following the last election’s wipeout and subsequent coalition split, with experts opining they may...
Arts

Dr Chandrabhanu on Bharatam Reprise: revisiting a legacy

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Distilling over forty years of pioneering work into one three-hour long performance is no easy feat when you’ve as celebrated an oeuvre as the...
India in Australia

Jewellery store owner hit on head with hammer in robbery

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The Nepali owner of a Brisbane-based jewellery shop has been hospitalised following an armed robbery on Tuesday evening. Bijaya Sunar, the owner of Shree Ganesh...
India in Australia

Professor Gita Mishra AO: King’s Birthday Honours 2025

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  When Professor Gita Mishra heard she would be receiving an AO, her first thoughts were of her parents.  “I wish my parents were alive. They...
India in Australia

Gopinath and Ramnath Iyer OAM: King’s Birthday Honours 2025

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  For Melbourne-based veena virtuosos Ramnath and Gopinath Iyer, known to the community as the Iyer Brothers, receiving an OAM each is the ‘pinnacle’ of...
India in Australia

The Namaste Network: tackling men’s isolation, one chat at a time

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  On Thursday nights, the Tarneit Community Learning Centre comes alive with camaraderie, as a group come together to connect, learn and reflect on what...
Cutting Chai

Cutting Chai with Gautam Raju

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  How does South Asian identity influence ideas of masculinity? Gautam Raju: Cultural identity certainly shapes how masculinity is understood and expressed, in complex and often...
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