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Banu Mushtaq’sΒ Heart Lamp observes the religious and patriarchal constraints faced by Muslim women in South India

LAKSHMI GANAPATHY

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The Albanese-led government has the opportunity now to push through significant changes

PAWAN LUTHRA

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Clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Ahona Guha on mental health policy, a 'broken world', and Pahalgam Β 

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  • Prof. Chennupati Jagadish AC, for being one of 90 outstanding world scientists elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

  • Dr Marlene Kanga AOΒ (iOmniscient Pty Ltd) and Prof. Rajeev VarshneyΒ (Murdoch University), who are among 26 distinguished scientists announced as Fellows by the Australian Academy of Science this week.

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The hidden battle for control over the minerals powering tomorrow’s technologies

MAYANK CHAUBEY

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Rejected! Thus began an illustrious career in food for India’s most famous chef.

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Indian vocalist and sitarist Sarita McHarg joins a team of CALDΒ andΒ BIPOCΒ women artists in the ritualistic interdisciplinary workΒ The Heart Whispers and Whirls – aΒ kaleidoscope of multi-lingual poetry, original compositions, folk songs, movement and shadow puppetry.

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If you were to build the world again, to create males and females again, do not be like an inexperienced potter. Come to earth as a woman, Prabhu! Be a woman once, Oh Lord!

A line from Banu Mushtaq’s anthologyΒ Heart Lamp, which has taken out the International Booker Prize for 2025
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