Meet Jovia Prem, Melbourne’s young prolific author
Though little and just eight years of age, Jovia Prem has a lot going for her. For one, in the year of the pandemic,...
I ran a genuine campaign: Sahana Ramesh
While the huge swing in favour of women candidates in the Wyndham City Council elections is remarkable, for India-born Sahana Ramesh, who is part...
Darebin councillor Tim Singh Laurence is six times lucky
With his recent win in the Darebin Council elections, Tim Singh Laurence marks his sixth victory (never having been defeated) and is perhaps on...
Melbourne’s oldest Heatherton Cricket Club looking for new innings
Just like there can be no winter without footy in Australia, there can be no summer without cricket. And although 2020 has been a...
A Melburnian Indian model’s exotic dance with fame
Chennai-born Sangeetha Singh’s chic is striking, and her beauty is classically ‘exotic’. She admits the epithet ‘exotic beauty’ is how, most often, people from...
How the Malayalees in Bendigo are keeping together
“If you go to any hospital in India, you are sure to find a Malayalee (native of Kerala) nurse,” says Allen Joy, who is...
Adelaide’s Bengali community celebrates Durga puja
In 1998, the Bengali community in Adelaide celebrated Durga pujas for the first time with two idols which were brought all the way from...
Woodend’s only Indian restaurateur finds cohesion & support
In this small regional town of Woodend, everybody knows Sam or Sammy as he is fondly called. Not because Sizzler Restobar is the only...
Young Indian-origin footballer in Perth scores dream goal
When Praneel Mukherjee kicked the ball from the halfway line, it bounced upward and reached its goal into the net, leaving him and everyone...
How one man is vitalising Bendigo’s Sikh community
Every first Sunday of the month, the burgeoning Sikh community members in Bendigo meet at the St Mary's Anglican Church in Kangaroo Flat. It...