A.R Rahman returns to Aus in October
What was that one factor that fuelled musician A.R Rahman’s rise to the top of his game as an unparallelled genius?
Canorous innovation? Compositional brilliance?...
My own Ganesha: Murthy Dakshin’s idol-making workshops
Ganesha, Hinduism’s most popular god, has brought much happiness in Indian-Australian homes this past fortnight.
We’ve just finished the annual festival dedicated to him, Ganesh...
As the Quad meets again, is it all optics and no...
This weekend, the four leaders of the Quad will once again convene, this time in US President Joe Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. The...
Shashi Tharoor: Lost in a wonderland of words
A perspicacious peregrination through the discombobulating gallimaufry that is the English language, with its penchant for purloining from other languages, its hermetic spellings, its...
First impressions: how opening lines shape literature
“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...