Monash Uni Professor keeping Indian freight trains running
When we last wrote about Professor Ravi Ravitharan following his 2014 Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA) Award win, we called him ‘the railway...
‘A flat white with you, Melbourne’: PM Modi in Australia
PM Modi in Melbourne
It was an icy six degrees Celsius in Melbourne last night, but inside Marvel Stadium, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Dinsha Palkhiwala’s ‘Bombay Talkies’: Inside an Irani café
Dinsha Palkhiwala's 'Bombay Talkies'
The Irani café is a disappearing phenomenon in India. In its heyday it welcomed people of all backgrounds – regular folk,...
The Yellowcake handshake: What the Australia-India uranium deal really signals
When Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi shook hands in Melbourne on July 9, closing a stalemate that had outlasted three Australian prime ministers, the...
Life of an international student: The moving out experience
International student moving out
It's 2024. I step off a plane in Sydney, jet-lagged and slightly terrified, clutching two suitcases like they're lifelines. I had...





