How Saleha Singh is making connections & building bridges
There is something very refreshing about Chai Chat & Community, a webcast that tackles various South Asian issues. Founded and presented by Saleha Singh,...
Bharat Sundaresan: The other side of cricket
If cricket is your thing, Bharat Sundaresan is a name you're familiar with. No, he's not a cricketer, but he's deeply immersed in the...
The marriage inquisition
If you are single and living in India you’ve got to be ready to answer a barrage of questions
If you are single and living...
I am Manipuri and I don’t have corona
Most of you reading this have probably heard of the word Manipur only through Mary Kom, India’s boxing champion who put this tiny state...
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...
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...
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...
Negotiating my identity as a migrant
This article is based on my personal experience of being both an internal and a transnational migrant. My initial decision to migrate can be...
A different ardor for this Melbourne Bengali theatre group
In 2019, five Bengali families in Victoria got together to create Actomania, a theatre group. Quite a silver lining to the pandemic that followed...
Active Citizenship Award for a man who sees beyond himself
Gurjinder Singh’s ambitions seem quite modest. He came to Adelaide in 2009 and all he wanted to do was work hard and lead a...