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Lakshmi Ganapathy: I want to start by congratulating you on ‘The Jungle and the Sea’; the night I saw it, there wasn’t a single...
Slopology: A field guide to the creatures of the content swamp
Every ecosystem eventually breeds an invasive species, and the internet's chosen vermin is AI slop. It's a content-form so prolific it now has its...
IFFM 2026: All eyes on Indian cinema, but are we watching?
The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne has always danced between being a film festival and a grand Indian celebration, and this year it threw...
Rakhi, rewritten: New ways to tie the bond
modern Rakhi traditions
I began this week thinking about Rakhi – as I always do, about a week before the actual day.
In the early days,...
How Perth student Yash Fatania’s space dream came true
Yash Fatania
In October or November last year, Yash Fatania’s supervisor gave him a hint: he might get the opportunity to work on a satellite...





