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...
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...
Author Ikroop Sandhu explores Bhagat Singh in new light
Inquilab Zindabad is Ikroop Sandhu’s first graphic novel, a biography on the Punjabi revolutionary Bhagat Singh. For Sandhu, whose primary mediums are drawing and...
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...
Where the monks come home
They say what you remember is not the same as what you witnessed. But I am hoping the reels of my memory are still...
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...
Sri Lankans in Melbourne on the political disenchantment
On 21 April 2019, in what is now infamously known as the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, Monash University’s Mathematics Lecturer Dr Ranjith...
How community cricket clubs are raising their bats
Australia’s summer would seem incomplete without cricket. And with many multicultural clubs raising their bats, there is excitement for players and fans alike.
For people...
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...
Harsiddhi Mody’s musical revolution at the heart of Melbourne
Growing up in Mumbai in a family of academicians and doctors, Harsiddhi Mody was fortunate to be surrounded by a blend of intellectual pursuits...