How photography sealed Anu Kumar’s bond with India
Photographer Anu Kumar had never seen much of India from an intimate lens although she was born there. Raised in Melbourne, her connection to...
Meet the first Indian-origin woman officer of Victoria Police
Sonali Deshpande was just three months into the country, when one of her new friends suggested, “Why don’t you join Victoria Police?” The year...
Unbounded: Maria Thattil drops some life tools & a tasty teaser
After being crowned Miss Universe Australia in 2020, Maria Thattil is now out with her book Unbounded. All in all, Thattil, who just turned...
Sex Magick: Why masculinity in India seems different
In 2007 when Nicholas Brown moved to Mumbai from Sydney, he found himself toggling between two worlds, each with its distinct environment. Brown, with...
The year that was. What happened. What next.
As 2022 comes to a close, this is not the type of story I usually write. But we all know what this year has...
The first time an Australian cricket team toured India during the Raj
In 1935-36, the first team of Australian cricketers set foot in India on the invitation of the then Maharaja of Patiala, Bhupinder Singh. Nearly...
Films or theatre, Prakash Belawadi has a perspective to success
From Madras Café to The Kashmir Files to web series Mumbai Diaries 26/11 to the latest Aussie project The Jungle and the Sea (to...
ELECTIONS 2022: Meet some of the Indian faces
This November, as Victoria goes to the polls to elect the next Parliament, the number of Indians, albeit small, participating in the elections certainly...
How Diwali has now become a rich Australian story
Diwali, the festival of lights, is a now rich Australian story involving culture, migration and multiculturalism
Arvind Shrivastava came to Australia in 1968. And for...
How Sydney’s lockdown became Kavita Nandan’s poetry
The pandemic did different things to different people. For Sydney-based Kavita Nandan, it was veering from prose and turning to poetry for its sublime...