Nana Patekar (1951–2026): The restless outsider who stayed one
Nana Patekar
Vishwanath Patekar was born in 1951 in Murud-Janjira, a coastal town in Maharashtra's Raigad district, to a modest Marathi family. He was a...
Cutting Chai with Neha Kale
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...
Mish Kumar-Jonson: Honouring hidden identities
For Mish Kumar-Jonson, being inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women is about ‘coming back to the communities they represent’.
“There’s so many non-binary...
Discovering Kazakhstan’s wild heart
Kazakhstan
“Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan - which did you like more?” A friend asked shortly after I returned from Kazakhstan, having visited Uzbekistan just the...
US shuts door on Indian tech talent. Will Australia open one?
Indian tech talent
Overnight on Thursday Aug 8 US time, which was Friday Aug 9 morning in Australia, thousands of tech workers in the US...





