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Torquay couple committed to community service

From their home in Torquay, every evening Arvind Shrivastava and his wife Dr Sunila appear live on Facebook dedicating an hour in prayers and...

Life’s an adventure: An Indian woman’s journey to Australia

Avanti Sinha was a professional table tennis player in India before she decided to start life anew in Australia. An immigration story from a...

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...

Rhea Chakraborty case makes you think India is no country for women

Day after day, hour after hour, the cacophony of vile, putrid allegations against Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been growing louder and louder. Her...

Ria Arora’s poem makes it to Scott Morrison’s Facebook page

All of ten, Ria Arora’s poem on COVID-19 conjures the world we are living in right now with depth and beauty. Small wonder, then,...

Bendigo Strikers: How a community cricket club grew

Around 2010, Bendigo saw a few influx of Malayalees, or people originally from Kerala, India’s southern state. Quite a tight-knit community, and bound by...

Ajay Pasupulate has his own story to tell

Few weeks ago, Melton-based Ajay Pasupulate lost his job. He had a career as an IT professional and one that was built on incremental...

At Bairnsdale, ‘charity man’ Kamaljit Rai navigates the pandemic

At Bairnsdale, a regional town in East Gippsland some 281 km from Melbourne, Kamaljit Rai Singh humbly acknowledges that people know him now. He...

From Iraq War to the pandemic, one chef’s philanthropic journey

The coronavirus pandemic has meant different things to different chefs. While some are reinventing themselves, some others are on a philanthropic journey. Take Daman...

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...