How Liza Pavlakos turned her life into a success story
Liza Pavlakos’s life story is the stuff films are made of. Raped and abused as a young adult, single mother at 21, kidnapped and...
A standout talent, this young cricketer has the smarts
Australia’s summer of cricket is no longer a sterile prospect with the women’s Test matches off to a start in Brisbane. Elsewhere in the...
Of an Indian prisoner of war, his Australian liberators & friendship
As a child in India, Narinder Singh Parmar remembers collecting Australian stamps from the many Christmas cards sent to his father Chint Singh from...
How dance entrepreneur Jaya Karan took on the pandemic
One of the absurdities of teaching dance is giving classes online and embracing technology, reflects Jaya Karan, a dancer, and founder of Sapphire and...
Rashida Tayabali on her debut novel & tackling stereotypes
Rashida Tayabali is a fourth generation Indian who has lived in different continents. Born in Kenya and settled in Australia now, Tayabali admits to...
An artist’s attempt at bringing out Indianness on Aussie landscape
This Diwali, Sydney-based urban designer and artist Gauri Torgalkar is bringing something unique for Sydney siders and the broader community with her Diwali Bloom...
Circular economy: Neeraj Das with Ojas Australia paves the way
When Neeraj Das, an electronics and communications engineer, came from India to Australia in 2007 on an employer-sponsored visa for a reputed company, he...
Dalit author Yashica Dutt’s crusade against caste
In 2016, Rohith Vemula, an Indian PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad, took his own life as a result of alleged institutional casteism...
From politics to business, Neelam Rai reinvents herself
In 2018, Neelam Rai had an abrupt exit as Liberal Party candidate for the Upper House in Northern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne (more on...
What did the pandemic do to friendships?
When COVID-19 came along, the mantra to get by for almost everyone was, “We are all in this together”. But as the lockdown and...