The year that was. What happened. What next.
As 2022 comes to a close, this is not the type of story I usually write. But we all know what this year has...
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...
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...
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...
Chhatt Puja & the Bihar Jharkhand community in Victoria
Shiv Gulam Mishra, originally from Munger in Bihar, who came to Australia in 1991 jests, “None of the Biharis are businessman. We are hundred...
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...
Embracing Golu, the festival of dolls, with an Aussie twist
For Shruthi Mangalaganesh, every year the nine-day festival of Navratri is a memorable one. It is a time when the family engages in the...
How Diwali has now become a rich Australian story
Diwali, the festival of lights, is a now rich Australian story involving culture, migration and multiculturalism
Arvind Shrivastava came to Australia in 1968. And for...
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...
Visually impaired tabla student Nathaniel Schmidt’s journey
Melbourne resident Nathaniel Schmidt’s fascination for the tabla (the principal percussion instrument in Hindustani classical music) began one weekend in 2009. He was watching...