Rajni Anand Luthra
Editor,
Indian Link
What’s today’s AQI? It’s the first question you ask yourself on a Delhi morning.
Ring a friend elsewhere and you compare numbers, as if willing them to drop. Step out on the roads and you scan the overhead signs, hoping for a miracle.
Most people in Australia are blissfully unaware of those three letters - but in North India in winter, AQI or Air Quality Index rules daily life. As I write this, the AQI is 400 – four times the acceptable levels.
Every breath is carrying harm.
And yet, even as schools halt outdoor sport, some still insist it’s all baloney: “good for immunity,” they say.
Believers, ignorers, deniers: in the end, we’re all inhaling the same truth.
Through the NSW Brain Clot Bank and the Global Health Neurology Lab, Dr Sonu Bhaskar is pushing scientific boundaries and opening doors to greater inclusion and accessibility.
Asialink’s Asian-Australian Leadership Awards recognise Sangeeta’s work is advancing Australia’s startup ecosystem by supporting early-stage founders and strengthening innovation links between the two continents.
Jasmine Deol, the founder of Australia’s first CALD men’s mental health foundation says the catalyst was her father saying “I feel lonely.”
The victim of a fatal chain-reaction crash at Hornsby Station was 20 days shy from her due date and was awaiting the arrival of her parents for the delivery when she was killed.
Congratualations to the winners and state nominees of the 2026 Australian of the Year awards, including: (ACT) Sita Sargeant and Anjali Sharma, (NT) Ramnik Walia, (QLD) Dr Rolf Gomes and Habib Mahomed Jamal, (SA) Dr Mohammad Afzal Mahmood and Ayesha Safdar, (VIC) Professor Arnold Dix, WA: Dr Haseeb Riaz and Gareth Shanthikumar.
Sangeeta Mulchandani (VIC), Dr Sonu Bhaskar (NSW) and Usman Khawaja (QLD) who were recognised at Asialink's Asian Australian Leadership Awards.
Kisaan (VIC) and Sharma’s Kitchen (NSW) who were recognised at the 2025 Australian Grand Dairy Awards.
Acclaimed fashion designer Rahul Mishra has collaborated with Johnnie Walker to make a dazzling cover for their Blue Label bottle.
Executive Director of the Australian Multicultural Women's Alliance (AMWA) Malini Raj speaks exclusively about the new government funded body tackling everything from family violence to workplace discrimination.
Guest artist Olga Tamara, ballet and pilates aficionado, joins Jyotsana Sharma’s Crescendo ensemble to explore the nine classical emotions of Indian aesthetics, in Navarasa.
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