Are cricketers & celebrities perpetuating casteism and inequality?
Recently, Ravindra Jadeja, an Indian international cricketer, hit two fifties in India’s three-day tour match in England.
Off the field, late that night, he tweeted...
Lisa Singh to lead the Australia India Institute
Lisa Singh has been appointed as the new Director of the Australia India Institute (AII), the University of Melbourne’s centre dedicated to promoting support for...
Melbourne author on India, Anglo-Indians & a wartime romance
A new book on the life stories of two Anglo-Indian women provide an insight into end-of-empire Bombay, dramatic views of the Partition of India...
Renaming the Khel Ratna Award: ‘Significant timing’
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet”
If a recent event was anything to go...
Indian researchers enabling Australian efforts to repurpose COVID-19 drugs
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, one of the first ‘Institutes of Eminence’ in India, has announced a collaboration with Australian...
One man’s travel account to India and back during the pandemic
During May, when India was at the peak of its second wave of the coronavirus recording as many as 26 million cases—second only to...
Stranded children: Two families’ heart wrenching stories
Every morning, Evangeline Doney, who is only four years old, arranges her clothes in a bag, dresses up and asks her grandparents to take...
India launches portal to connect with the diaspora worldwide
The Government of India has launched the “Global Pravasi Rishta Portal” as a dynamic portal to establish an effective communication channel to connect with...
How Naga communities in India came together during the pandemic
The close-knit society is falling back on the sense of community and kinship that has been passed down over generations in Nagaland, northeast India
One...
Ultramarathon runner Samantha Gash leading Relief Run for India
Samantha Gash’s love affair with India is an open secret. In her decade-long relationship, she has visited the country six times and in 2016,...