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Prutha Chakraborty

Prutha Bhosle Chakraborty is a freelance journalist. With over nine years of experience in different Indian newsrooms, she has worked both as a reporter and a copy editor. She writes on community, health, food and culture. She has widely covered the Indian diaspora, the expat community, embassies and consulates. Prutha is an alumna of the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bengaluru.
Music

Menaka Thomas weaves heritage through music

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  At an Ayurvedic hospital in Kerala, alone, desperate and deflated, Menaka Thomas began writing songs.  For years, music had been something she inherited. She had...
India in Australia

Jinal Parmar: On health literacy for CALD communities

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  For Jinal Parmar, a doctoral researcher and educator at Western Sydney University, improving health has never been simply about treating illness. Her interest in public...
Science, Tech & Business

How Perth student Yash Fatania’s space dream came true

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Yash Fatania In October or November last year, Yash Fatania’s supervisor gave him a hint: he might get the opportunity to work on a satellite...
India in Australia

‘With India, I belong’

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Terri McClure It began with a comment on social media. Terri McClure Someone watched one of Terri McClure's videos about India and declared they would never...
Bollywood

Saving Fearless Nadia

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Saving Fearless Nadia She was Australian by birth, Indian by choice, and decades ahead of her time. Long before superheroes dominated cinema screens or female-led...
Food

India’s cake queen Prachi Dhabal Deb is coming to Australia

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  In 2019, standing in a grand hall in Birmingham, surrounded by nearly 800 of the world’s finest cake artists, Pune-based Prachi Dhabal Deb’s hands...
Science, Tech & Business

Prof Mohan Yellishetty: Restoring farms after mining

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Prof Mohan Yellishetty Restoring farmland after mineral sands mining is emerging as a major environmental challenge in regional Victoria, particularly in the Wimmera and Mallee,...
Lifestyle

Instagram cannot get enough of this Hindi-speaking Aussie

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Joe Speaks Hindi There are food influencers. Travel influencers. Fashion, beauty, lifestyle. Even language creators. Joe Speaks Hindi And then there’s Joe Freeman!  On his Instagram page,...
Education

Professor PV Jayashree on building UNSW’s India campus

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  When Professor Payyazhi Vadakkekara Jayashree was asked to lead the new UNSW Bengaluru campus (set to open in August 2026) as Rector, it was...
Visual arts

‘Finding Dada’: Anindita Banerjee’s search for home

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  Anindita Banerjee is looking for her grandfather. Not literally. Her grandfather, whom she called ‘Dada’, passed away years ago. But even today, she finds herself...
Science, Tech & Business

Burning Questions: Vijay of UWS studies forest fires across two worlds

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climate change and bushfires When Vijay Kumar returned to the forests of his childhood in Himachal Pradesh, he was confronted by an unusual sight. Entire stands...
Science, Tech & Business

Ambika Vishwanath, Maitri fellow, on why climate change is now a security issue

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Ambika Vishwanath For Ambika Vishwanath, the link between climate and security did not begin in a policy paper or a conference room. It began in...
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