Rajni Anand Luthra
Editor,
Indian Link
And so we come to the final e-newsletter of the year. After a relentless week covering a horrific event in our own city - one that has touched us all deeply - it feels strange to mark an ending. There is still so much to process, and an instinct to keep going.
And we will. While our offices officially close tomorrow and we won’t return until early January, our commitment to this work continues. This platform may pause for the holidays, but the conversation does not, and you can still engage with us on our social media channels.
Perhaps it is fitting that the work year ends here. It gives us space to reflect and recover after a confronting week that will remain, for many of us, one of the most defining moments of 2025.
Thank you for reading, for staying with us, and for being part of this community - especially when it matters most.
Aaron heard the gunshots from inside his home in Bondi - then ran towards the horror unfolding outside.
The global immolation of social cohesion arrives on our doorstep with the Bondi attack, and commentary like Andrew Bolt's is only fanning the flames.
… strength means quiet check-ins. Careful words. Listening before judging. Restraint over reaction. Resisting the urge to spread fear.
‘Australia is full of good men and women - nowhere more so than in our Indian community. We need your support and desperately hope that you will not “do nothing”.’
First-in-course HSC 2025 students Rahul Desai (Maths Extension 1), Mankirat Kaur (English Standard), Amrutha Pondala (Investigating Science), Savya Mishra (Geography), Nishika Reddy Talusani (PDHPE), Nikitha Saiju (Studies of Religion 1), Rupali Wadhwa (Drama), Sharan Bhogal (French Beginners), Harsheen Saini (Punjabi Continuers) and Dhaani Gupta (Hindi Continuers)
New Indian High Commissioner to Australia Nagesh Singh and outgoing Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay
Kishor Napier-Raman, who will be the new Senior Business Writer at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in 2026
When your AI assistant quietly wonders if it can call in sick
Podcast Alert 🎙️
Speak My Language, Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW’s Auslan video podcast series highlights perspectives often unheard.
This episode: Sokong Kim from Deaf Basketball.
Data Dreams: Art and AI (Museum of Contemporary Art)
How AI blurs distinctions between human and machine, reality and fiction, involving chatbots, deepfakes and machine hallucinations.
Check out the works by South Asian artists Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Aṇaṅkuperuntinaivarkal Inkaaleneraam.
For more head to our What’s On page.
“Bondi Beach will recover. The sand will be cleared, routines restored, life resumed. But the deeper task is moral and political: to ensure that what Bondi represents — openness, ease, shared life — is not quietly surrendered in the name of safety."
