by Amrita Priya | Oct 4, 2025
(October 4, 2025) When Rakesh Patel left Vadodara in 2006, he arrived in Australi’s Darwin as a nervous young student with limited English and no safety net. The move was as daunting as it was hopeful: a new city, a new culture, and a dream of building a better...
by Amrita Priya | Sep 9, 2025
(September 9, 2025) From arriving in Australia in 2011 with a nursing degree from Kerala to joining the Northern Territory ministry on 9 September 2024, Jinson Charls’ journey came full circle. In a stunning election victory, he had unseated Labor minister Kate Worden...
by Charu Thakur | Jul 19, 2025
(July 19, 2025) Every evening after school, Kumar Mahadevan would find himself in the small kitchen of his grandmother’s home in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. While other children played outside, he watched closely as she cooked — grinding spices by hand, stirring pots of...
by Charu Thakur | May 5, 2025
(May 5, 2025) As a child in Kuala Lumpur, Shamila Gopalan spent evenings tucked under her desk lamp, filling the margins of her schoolbooks with sketches of distant cities. Those innocent daydreams took on sharper edges when her mother sank into a deep depression and...
by Charu Thakur | Mar 25, 2025
(March 25, 2025) In a sunlit Melbourne market, a young woman in a “Chai Walli” apron leans over a steaming kettle, the air thick with the aroma of cardamom and ginger. With practiced ease, she pours milky spiced tea from a metal pot into little cups for an eager...
