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,...
Cutting Chai with Parvyn Kaur Singh
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...
Nadeem Ahmed and the unfinished business of Multicultural Australia
Indians in Sydney founder Nadeem Ahmed is clearly a man who wants to do the right thing. The difficulty, listening to him talk about...
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...





