Rashida Tayabali on her debut novel & tackling stereotypes
Rashida Tayabali is a fourth generation Indian who has lived in different continents. Born in Kenya and settled in Australia now, Tayabali admits to...
How a student body is helping Indian students affected by mental health
Pradyumna Choudhury, a student of Master’s degree in Medical Engineering at Monash University says the pandemic has hit him hard, as also many of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...