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Rajni Anand Luthra

Rajni is the Editor of Indian Link.

Asha Bhat: Bringing hope to vulnerable communities

  Asha Bhat is getting used to being called ‘Moorditj yorga’. It means ‘Strong Woman’ in the language of the Noongar people of Western Australia. Her latest...

Happy (real) birthday, Leaplings!

  Sydney’s Keersten Fitzgerald marks a special birthday today. She turns 28, but her special celebration this past weekend had a 7th birthday theme. Keersten’s a...

Aboriginal designs for your sari

  24-year-old Aboriginal artist Presten Warren had not seen a sari up close until last year. Today, his designs appear on a sari range created by...

Deepika Padukone at BAFTAs shines in sari

  Move over ridiculously large ball gown, welcome Sabyasachi sari. For the BAFTAs this year, India’s sweetheart Deepika Padukone chose a shimmering Sabyasachi number, and looked...

Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, AO: Australia Day Honours 2024

  Ask Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt to describe her work, and she’ll say, “I work with extremely poor people, and the highly vulnerable environments in which...

Dr Ramananda Kamath, OAM: Australia Day Honours 2024

  As a seven-year-old child growing up in Kasargod in Kerala, Dr Ramananda Kamath watched as his family’s buffalo delivered a calf. Three days later,...

Top Indian origin diplomat among Australia Day honourees

  Diplomat Harinder Sidhu, Australia’s High Commissioner to New Zealand and former High Commissioner to India, has been felicitated with an AM in this year’s...

Vya Pulavorty on Old People’s Home for Teenagers

  Fresh out of the ABC TV show Old People’s Home for Teenagers, participant Vya Pulavorty, age 14, has some wonderful observations about older people. “I...

AIBC annual dinner urges action

  A sense of urgency was palpable among the 250-plus attendees at the annual Australia India Business Council (AIBC) dinner, to move the trade activities between...

Dr Harry Harinath: Quiet operator. Deep connector. Mover of mountains.

  Some three hundred people came out to farewell much-loved community figure Dr Harry Harinath on 23 November. Doctor, cricket administrator, head of Multicultural NSW, mentor...