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Grammys 2026: All the Indian links that took the stage

Sruthi Sajeev -
Grammys 2026 It’s the biggest music awards show of the year - one that us commoners watch mainly to gasp (for good reasons and bad)...

Raf Saperra at Sydney: song and statement

Neeru Saluja -
Raf Saperra When Raf Saperra hit the stage at the Sydney Festival recently, he wasted no time - tearing straight into his hit Venomz Boliyan. A...

Danish Sheikh: “The law was my great love story”

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  It was ‘utter and complete heartbreak’ that drew activist-lawyer Danish Sheikh to theatre. In 2013, the Supreme Court of India ruled against repealing Section 377...

Tribute to Ernest MacIntyre, extraordinary playwright and thinker

Indian Link -
  Ernest MacIntyre, a veteran of the South Asian theatre scene in Sydney passed away on 17 Dec 2025. His plays, based in his native Sri Lanka,...

An exuberant Indian link at the 2025 Schools Spectacular

Sruthi Sajeev -
  The matinee performance of this year’s Schools Spectacular left students Vir Parulekar, Aarvi Chhabra and Samara Marie Shahi feeling giddy from the adrenaline rush...

Ethan and Caleb are ready to rock

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Brothers Ethan and Caleb remember watching the iconic film School of Rock, following a ragtag group of students who secretly enter the battle of...

Brown Women Poetry: An antidote to cynicism

Sruthi Sajeev -
  Poetry events offer shared spaces where sincerity is no longer viewed as “cringe” and where pouring your heart and soul on stage is not,...

TOUCH review: Bharatanatyam-Ballet piece skims the surface

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  It’s a truth we’re all familiar with as People of Colour, and one that has certainly reared its head as of late; racism is...

Manognya’s ‘Tat Tvam Asi’: The self, reflected through dance

Smriti Sekhar -
  A complex Advaita Vedanta concept, ‘Tat Tvam Asi’ (or That Thou Art), refers to the idea that the individual’s true self is part of...

‘Copy of the Copy’ and modern dance’s Indian influences

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Bharatanatyam practitioner Dr Priya Srinivasan distinctly remembers her confusion at seeing the ‘mothers of modern dance’ Ruth St Denis and Martha Graham dressed like...

Review: The Last Dance at Knox Community Arts Centre

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  Following their successful Marathi-language production of Bandini as part of La Mama’s Festival of Tongues, Melbourne Indian Theatre (MiTheatre) have returned with an English-language...

Identity, ambition and Emerald City: Rajan Velu’s journey

Prutha Chakraborty -
  When Rajan Velu was a boy, he watched his sister rehearse the graceful movements of Bharatanatyam - and something stirred. Then came the Tamil...
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