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...
by Amrita Priya | Feb 23, 2025
(February 23, 2025) Melbourne-based banker Arun Ashok expertly balances his weekdays in financial services with weekends devoted to his true passion—filmmaking. His ability to navigate both worlds is paying off. The filmmaker’s dedication to storytelling recently...
by Charu Thakur | Nov 30, 2024
(November 30, 2024) When Mitu Bhowmick Lange first arrived in Melbourne in 2002, she found herself in a city that couldn’t have been more different from Mumbai, where she had built a thriving career in television and film. Melbourne, despite the multicultural vibe,...
