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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.
Sports

AIWCA: For girls who eat, sleep, dream cricket

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  “In India, I noticed it did not matter to anyone how the pitch condition was,”  youth cricketer Aanya Siingh recounted after a recent tour....
Science, Technology & Innovation

Dr Santosh Kaur’s SmartHeal: Wound care with AI

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  Dr Santosh Kaur has accumulated nearly 17 years of healthcare experience in India and Australia. Her biggest achievement? Building smart technology to measure the...
Books

How Mad Max got Swayam Ganguly interested in Aust cinema

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  When Swayam Ganguly first saw Mad Max (1979) as a kid he was hooked. But the passion for Australian cinema grew much later on in...
India in Australia

Nalin Narang’s film on vision wins WHO award

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  Every minute, one person in Indonesia goes blind - a staggering reality unveiled in the opening of Nalin Narang’s new film, which recently earned...
Books

What Gandhi thought of Australia

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  In 1896, when Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was working for the cause of his countrymen in South Africa, he first referenced Australia in his writings....
India in Australia

‘Unwind With Divya’: A podcast for international students

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  When Divya Sharma told her dad a few years ago that she was struggling emotionally and could benefit with a spot of counselling, his...
Entertainment

From Mackay to Meghalaya: Sarah Todd’s culinary adventure

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  The seven-episode culinary series Hills on a Plate: Meghalaya Chef Wars on India’s JioCinema, had me, a die-hard foodie, hooked right from the word...
Books

Satyajit Das on “leaving the natural world alone”

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  Most biologists and environmentalists, Satyajit Das thinks, have it wrong – they premise their analysis on the fact that man stands largely outside nature. “They...
Arts

Aus artist Dena Lawrence’s work on Kashmiri silk carpets

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  At Germany’s Carpet Design Awards this year, Perth artist Dena Lawrence won the ‘Best Studio Artist Design’ category. Her winning piece, which she calls Maschera,...
Sports

Vedant Sawant: How gymnastics became the ‘be all and end all’

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  If there is one thing that Queenslander Vedant Sawant learned from his World Championships debut last month, it is the significance of mental fortitude...
Arts

Anudeepa Kadiresan: Creating Dravidian art in Melbourne

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  Growing up in India, Anudeepa Kadiresan loved to create Tanjore paintings using the centuries-old traditional method. “Of course, I used aluminium foil instead of the...
Lifestyle

Mindfulness coach Lajja Champaneria: Towards a better life

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  Lajja Champaneria once had a vision that she was in front of a group of women, making an address. Only weeks later, she was presenting...
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