Melbourne writer Nishant Kaushik on his books & a coveted deal
Melbourne-based author Nishant Kaushik is a prolific writer. You would wonder how writing literary fiction fits into his life being a busy father of...
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...
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...
Harpreet Singh Kandra, truly a community volunteer
Early in June, Harpreet Singh Kandra proudly took the podium at the Arts Centre in Melbourne. The occasion was the first Victorian Multicultural Honour...
Sandip Ray on his work & his father Satyajit Ray’s legacy
It has been 30 years since Sandip Ray, the son of the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, last visited Sydney. He will break that long...
How Covid has led to skill shortages in different sectors
The word doing the rounds these days is that it is increasingly difficult to find pizza deliverers around Melbourne. Sometimes, business managers are willing...
What shaped Aarti Vincent’s path to comedy
In 2007, just a year old in Melbourne and relatively new, Aarti Vincent was out with a friend strolling the CBD on a 40-plus...
Are migrants easy prey to branch stacking?
The practice of recruiting large numbers of new party members to influence the results of an internal part ballot, particularly of pre-selections for parliamentary...
How this scientist played a key role in three Covid vaccines
When a gentleman flew to Melbourne from Guandong on 19 January last year, he was not just the first confirmed case of the novel...
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...