Giving multicultural mental health workers a stronger voice
The Indian Sun recently held a workshop to help community workers and mental health advocates improve their media skills. People from five different organisations...
Telling Their Own Stories: BAV joins media training drive
The Bengali Association of Victoria (BAV) joined the growing list of organisations to take part in the media training offered by The Indian Sun...
How Umeed became a mental health safe pace for South Asians
In 2021, when the world was in the thick of COVID, Anushka Phal was fresh out of university and working as a school psychologist...
Meet Chanchal Kumavat, the 2025 Casey Woman of the Year
It has been almost 22 years since Chanchal Rajnish Kumavat left India—and her hometown of Indore, which she proudly describes as one of the...
Indian community groups invited to take part in media training project
Victoria’s growing Indian diaspora will be the focus of a new free media training project rolling out over the next five months, with workshops...
Your Story Matters: Share your experience, win a gift card
“I don’t feel heard,” “I don’t think they understand me,” “they gave me advice on trying something, but that doesn’t fit with my values”—these...
From Wool to Wow: The man who raised two flags & countless spirits
You might think age and digital savviness don’t go together. But last week, when the Victorian Multicultural Commission announced its winner for the Cultural...
Does My Vote Matter? Indian-Australians weigh in as election campaign heats up
The federal election has just been called—and with it, a scramble for the Indian diaspora’s vote. "Ask me again in 15 days," laughs a...
Breaking the silence among Indian men in Melbourne
In Melbourne, a quiet yet pressing issue is emerging among its Indian male residents: isolation. Often hidden beneath cultural expectations of stoicism and self-reliance,...
How one dinner celebrated women, diversity, and hope
It was a dinner with a difference. On a warm autumn Wednesday evening, the Millennium House Community Centre in Seddon hosted a gathering where...