When Top End mob met Western Ghats Adivasis
On a trip to Kerala’s Periyar Tiger Reserve, something clicked for Associate Professor Kamaljit Sangha that led to a beautiful cultural exchange.
Having worked with Indigenous Australian communities for...
When Gods Walk the Gallery
Avatar: Forms of Vishnu
Asleep atop a multi-headed serpent, floating in an ocean of cosmic milk. As a man-lion, a bird, a boar, a fish. As the dwarf Vamana,...
Christina Prakanthan’s Ādal: Where dance meets devotion
Christina Prakanthan Ādal
Over 80 Bharatanatyam performers from diverse age groups from Christina Prakanthan’s Natyatharu School of Dance got together to present a concert recently.
Quite appropriately, the institute's annual showcase at the CRCCS...
What Pauline Hanson might learn in a World Cup fan zone
Pauline Hanson's monoculture
Australia has spent years arguing over national identity: what holds it together, what threatens it, and whether multiculturalism strengthens or weakens social...
Why is Bhutan the world’s happiest country?
Bhutan travel
Something hit me as I stepped off the plane in Paro, Bhutan. It wasn’t the stunning rugged mountains nearby, topped with a faint mist, like...




