The secret sensory life of plants
Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them.
But a new field...
Cutting Chai with Shaun Christie-David
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 South...
ILASA’s Home Across the Horizons: A review
The book Home Across the Horizons, produced by the Indian Literary and Art Society of Australia (ILASA), lands in interesting times. As migrants -...
Brushstrokes of belonging: Harris Park mural
At Sydney’s Harris Park, affectionately called ‘Little India’, a 120-metre mural transforms Station Street East into a living, breathing canvas. There is no single...
When heavy periods are treated as ‘woman’s fate’
Heavy periods
In many families, heavy periods are not seen as a health issue, but accepted as part of being a woman. Girls are told...


