Tag: anti-comedy

  In the 1800s, U V Swaminatha Iyer (known affectionately as Tamil Thaataa) painstakingly rebuilt Tamil scholarship, restoring lost texts and revitalising the language for future generations.   Is it any surprise that Professor Balasubramaniam Venkatesh,...

  An 18-month-old girl from Melghat, a tribal Maharashtra region, arrived with severe burn contractures across her right arm and fingers. Malnourished and living far...

  Chethicad Thomas When Chethicad Oommen Thomas OAM landed in Victoria in 1969, the White Australia Policy had just been lifted. Determined to help other migrants...

  Despite completing a Masters degree aged 18, Kaushal Ottem never really liked school. Temporarily bedridden at the age of seven after being hit by a...

  When Melbourne’s Dr Abhishek Verma first found out he was getting an OAM, he didn’t believe it. “I thought this has got to be some...