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A space for talent, courtesy Ayina

The Association of Young Indian Talents of Australia (Ayina) is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated in Australia in 2013, founded with the objective to provide...

Preventing teen suicide

What are the signs and how can we help our youth? Teen suicide rates are as high as they have ever been in Australia. This...

Renowned musicians from India and Australia unite for special performance

New Springs is led by is led by trailblazing percussionist Guru Kaaraikkudi Mani This September, Hawthorn Arts Centre will present a very special cross-cultural event...

A Punjabi woman asks her community, “How Gay am I?”

Sunanda Sachatrakul speaks about her life from the fringes to centre stage My parents are elderly Punjabis born and raised in Thailand. They grew up...

Never the hero

Despite the recent rise of South Asian talent—Mindy Kaling, Lilly Singh, Aziz Ansari, Dev Patel, Priyanka Chopra, why haven’t we moved on from stereotyped...

An evening with Deepti Naval—the poetess

She entered Bollywood like a breath of fresh air and enamoured the audience with her ‘girl-next door’ look. The year was 1979 and the...

Off the grid, ear to the ground

For many years screens in the West have portrayed an image of South Asians that made Ravi Chand feel uncomfortable. Born in Fiji with...

Beyond Skin, one night only

Musician Nitin Sawhney brings his cocktail of urban triphop and electronica to Melbourne this October Twenty years ago, UK musician and composer Nitin Sawhney strode...

The six yard saga

Phylicia Rashad said that when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. And magical it was when on 7 July, nearly 200...

Making Sanskrit fun

Paniniyam, a grammar camp with a difference, brought an ancient language alive, through games, bhajans and puzzles How do you get children of today to...