Court upholds visa refusal for Indian applicant over English test requirement
In a recent ruling, the Federal Court of Australia upheld the decision to refuse a Subclass 485 visa to an Indian applicant, emphasising the...
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...
Nethra Raman on The Voice: ‘Music is about telling stories’
Nethra Raman remembers her Blind Audition for The Voice vividly; saying goodbye to her family to walk on stage was the longest silence of...
Captivating Cusco
To the casual (and innocently misguided) observer, Peru is synonymous with one site: the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. But Peru is so much...
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...