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Rajni Anand Luthra

Rajni is the Editor of Indian Link.

Gauri Torgalkar: An Australian floral tribute to Diwali

  In a wonderfully different exhibition of Australian native flowers that opened this week, Sydney-based artist Gauri Torgalkar weaves in a familiar Indian theme, Diwali. Or...

Announcing the winners of Indian Link’s Diwali Art Contest 2021

  Seven-year-old Vedankita Kuhaluri of Point Cook Victoria and Aadhya Agarwal of Parramatta NSW, 8, have won Indian Link’s Diwali Art Contest for Kids this...

#MissionJab: our ‘Jab Song’ has gone viral!

  You’ve all probably seen it by now. “It’s catchy and good hearted,” wrote Natalie Ward, NSW Minister for multiculturalism, adding, “It effectively conveys the vital...

What drives Charishma Kaliyanda

  As a Liverpool Councillor, and as a Southwestern Sydney resident, you’ve been very vocal about how your community has suffered during lockdown. And yet...

Sikh Soldier’s War Memorial for Blacktown NSW

  Glenwood in Sydney’s north-west could soon be home to a Sikh Soldiers' War Memorial. A tribute to the turbaned soldiers in Australia’s military history, a...

Rakshabandhan memories: making my own ribbon rakhis

  A large yellow sponge cut out in the shape of a flower, with a shiny Bollywood pink cardboard Ganeshji stuck on top, stitched precariously...

Dr McComas Taylor: Translating the Vishnu Purana into English

  McComas Taylor first felt drawn to Sanskrit when he saw Peter Brook’s television production The Mahabharata in the late 1980s. Today, as an academic at...

Indian restaurants jump on the bottled cocktail bandwagon

  If you’ve been doing a celebratory take-away night on say Friday nights this lockdown period, you’ve probably seen bottled cocktails on the menu. Packaged in...