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Enduring Melbourne’s second lockdown without family
Melbourne will be locked down until mid-September Melbourne’s second lockdown is proving to be much harsher than the first. With a strict 8 pm to 5 am curfew, this time around, more retail services...
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4 Indian links at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2020
The Melbourne International Film Festival is back! Going fully digital this year (it’s even been dubbed MIFF 68½), the festival is set to stream from 6 August to 23 August. Leaving out the packed...
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Melbourne lockdown and a state of disaster
Over 130K Victorians have just finished registering for a social media initiative, started by Christian Bernstein, to send Premier Daniel Andrews a virtual hug. He is, undoubtedly, in the worst...
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Vic Premier: Support package for multicultural communities
Premier Daniel Andrews promised another $14.3 million to support multicultural communities in Victoria, recently. $6.9 million of the package will be utilised to expand health messages and support for...
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Year 4 student wins statewide competition with her poem of hope
As people around the world seek the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, 9-year-old Mehak Soin has won hearts and a state-wide poetry competition with her message of hope and solidarity....
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MHFA Victoria supports the community during Melb lockdown
The Mental Health Foundation Australia (MHFA) Victoria ticked off all the boxes for connectedness, resilience, positivity and support through its latest initiative. They’ve been delivering hundreds of...
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Reciting the Bhagavad Gita
Reading and reciting the Bhagavad Gita, a spiritual text, is a routine activity for many devout Hindus. Some read it a chapter at a time, while some recite a hymn or two a day and an exceptional few...
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RMIT Indian Club celebrates virtual Independence Day
After two years of celebrating India’s Independence Day on a large scale, bringing the cheer and festivities to Indian students in Melbourne, RMIT Indian Club encountered a new first – taking the...
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RMIT Indian Club supports Melb students with free groceries
At a time when Victoria reels from the impact of the coronavirus, students from RMIT University’s Indian Club decided to make a difference in their own way. Looking out for their fellow international...
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Subtle Curry Traits, connecting desis through humour
To many young desis around the world, it’s a good laugh to poke a little bit of fun at ourselves. After all, from parents recommending turmeric as the cure to all diseases to sneaking Bollywood songs...
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‘Slow and steady’ exit from lockdown as Victorian government sets sights on...
The Victorian government today announced the eagerly anticipated roadmap out of COVID-19 lockdown. It features several steps that reflect a much slower relaxing of restrictions than last time around....
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Melbourne’s Ria Patel blends passion with purpose
Growing up in Melbourne, Ria Patel had watched a lot of movies with her mother. Of course, starring in them had never struck her mind. But after she was accepted to the New York Film Academy, applying...
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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...
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‘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...
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Jyot 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...
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RMIT’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,...
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A 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...
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Indian 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...
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Dev, 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....
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Melb 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...
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