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‘My superhero voice’ starting conversations on child sexual abuse

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  A picture book created in collaboration with the Australian Government aims to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse in multicultural communities. Launching last week...

Breaking form in Bharatanatyam: Govind Pillai’s ‘Temple of Desire’

Nidhi Panicker -
  Well-known Melbourne dancer Govind Pillai gives a sneak peak of what to expect in his upcoming and much awaited production ‘Temple of Desire’. The Melbourne...

Free as a bird: Artist Priya Gore

Prutha Chakraborty -
  In Aboriginal Australian culture, black cockatoos symbolise change, freedom and renewal. Similarly, in Priya Gore’s painting ‘I Am’, this bird represents empowerment, reflection, and...

Prema Srinivasan’s ‘Pure Vegetarian’: A review

Prutha Chakraborty -
I may be a Mumbai-based Maharashtrian – with ancestral roots in Konkan – but I have a deep fascination for South Indian cuisines. Over...

Crafting Connections: Indian links at Perth’s IOTA24

Prutha Chakraborty -
  Undulating paper patterns in red and white sit enticingly across the ceiling in Indian artist Ankon Mitra’s artwork at Perth’s Freemantle Arts Centre. They...

First impressions: how opening lines shape literature

Ananya Thirumalai -
  “Here is one way I propose that you read this book.” That's how one of India’s most iconic works of fiction began. R.K. Narayan’s...

Shashi Tharoor: Lost in a wonderland of words

Vikas Datta -
  A perspicacious peregrination through the discombobulating gallimaufry that is the English language, with its penchant for purloining from other languages, its hermetic spellings, its...

Ananya’s ready to make a splash at VSSS

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Singer Ananya Hariharan remembers when she first found out about the annual Victorian State School Spectacular (VSSS), via a Facebook ad her dad saw...

Nethra Raman on The Voice: ‘Music is about telling stories’

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Nethra Raman remembers her Blind Audition for The Voice vividly; saying goodbye to her family to walk on stage was the longest silence of...

Melbourne Fringe 2024: South Asian links

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
SOUTH ASIAN DANCE AT MELBOURNE FRINGE 2024 Echoes of Her: A Kathak Celebration Since Heeramandi, Kathak’s come back in a big way, and this piece will...

Drumming up that Ganesh fervour: Sydney’s Dhol Tasha troupe

Anu Shivaram -
  Ask HSC student Sanika Kulkarni what she does to relax in between exam preparation, and she’ll reply, “Dhol tasha.” She’s referring of course to the...

Indian singer Reuben De Melo makes waves on The Voice

Frankey Gerard Fernandes -
  An Indian singer of Goan origin has been making waves in Season 13 of the Australian singing competition television series The Voice. Thirty-one-year-old Reuben De...
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