How chef Nabil Ansari popularised Indian cuisine during the lockdown
Not everyone’s pandemic story is all doom and gloom. Undeterred by strict lockdowns and a flailing hospitality industry, chef Nabil Ansari’s gastronomic exploits are receiving widespread Insta...
View Article‘Diwali will look different this year’ says Vic Multicultural Minister
According to Victorian Minister for Multicultural Affairs Ros Spence, Diwali celebrations will not be the same this year. There will be no massive crowds or big family gatherings allowed, as it will...
View ArticleJyot se Jyot: Jyoti Kamthe’s community initiative
Life lessons learnt during childhood and an increased sense of social responsibility laid the foundation for Jyot se Jyot, Jyoti Kamthe’s community initiative in Truganina in Melbourne’s west. Jyoti...
View ArticleRMIT’s Sumeet Walia shortlisted as emerging leader at Eureka Prizes 2020
From arriving in Melbourne as an international student at the age of 17 to now being recognised by Australia’s leading science awards, Sumeet Walia has had a whirlwind career in the sciences. Now,...
View ArticleA Melbourne educator’s experiments with Gandhi
Margaret Hepworth is a peace educator and the creator of ‘The Gandhi Experiment’. As a teacher of history, Margaret Hepworth would often ask her middle school students in Melbourne if they had heard...
View ArticleIndian links in Victoria’s local council elections 2020
Victoria’s 2020 local council elections, during the state’s strict coronavirus restrictions, will be conducted by postal vote and will be the largest ever undertaken in Victoria with more than 4.5...
View ArticleDev, every Indian mother’s delight on Junior MasterChef
Source: Channel 10 Imagine cooking a lamb Mughlai curry with saffron rice, cucumber raita, coriander chutney, and smoked chicken kebab in 3 hours. Now imagine cooking it all in just 75 minutes....
View ArticleMelb students create inclusive masks for turbans and hijabs
Like it or not, masks are here to stay. If you wear a turban or a hijab though, that poses a problem: how do you loop them around your ears? Three medical students from Melbourne have now got that...
View ArticleDesigner Srishti Kaur creates beard-friendly COVID masks
If many of us find wearing ordinary masks uncomfortable – tugging at the ears, fogging up our glasses, and riding up the nose – imagine the struggles of wearing a mask if you have a beard or a turban....
View ArticleWhy pauses are important in migrant women’s lives
Migration brings a drastic change in the social lives of women, whether it is rural-urban migration within a country, or a move across countries. With old, familiar places lost and the sense of...
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