When pessimism looks for someone to blame
There is a worrying mood taking hold in Australia: not simply concern about migration, housing or the cost of living, but a growing sense...
Cutting Chai with Neha Kale
Cutting Chai with Lakshmi Ganapathy is a monthly series of bite-sized interviews with prominent South Asians showcasing their career and personality and celebrating their...
Nana Patekar (1951–2026): The restless outsider who stayed one
Nana Patekar
Vishwanath Patekar was born in 1951 in Murud-Janjira, a coastal town in Maharashtra's Raigad district, to a modest Marathi family. He was a...
Discovering Kazakhstan’s wild heart
Kazakhstan
“Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan - which did you like more?” A friend asked shortly after I returned from Kazakhstan, having visited Uzbekistan just the...
Ryan Michael paints the people we overlook
When Ryan Michael moved from India to Australia at 12, he suddenly became aware of something he had never really thought about before: his...
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