Rajni Anand Luthra
Editor,
Indian Link
Winter has arrived - and with it, the cultural energy of our community.
We’ve already seen packed concerts speaking to very different corners of our community - from Satinder Sartaaj to Hanumankind - while community theatre groups are reopening their curtains after the quieter summer months. Meanwhile, the mainstream arts calendar is in full swing: Melbourne Writers Festival has just wrapped, while Sydney Writers' Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Vivid Sydney, RISING and the Archibald Prize remind us that winter in Australia is anything but dull.
So rug up and get out there. Step away, even briefly, from the cloud of global conflict, rising costs and fractured leadership. Sometimes, art, music and storytelling are not escapism - they are survival.
How one political calculation may have reshaped - and destabilised - modern Australian conservatism.
NAKUL LEGHA, Head of Scripted content at SBS, joins us to talk about growing up without television, and what exactly an is Australian story.
How one courtroom insult became a nine-million-strong reckoning with a generation left behind.
A new name, and a chance to change the conversation. Now called PMOS (Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome), it clarifies that it is more than a “cyst problem”.
On National Corrections Day (15 May), Senior Correctional Officer Mohinder Singh of the NSW Correctional Service spoke to us about the human side of prison work we rarely get to see.
Om Satija from Melbourne, for becoming the youngest person to run the length of India, covering over 5000 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir in four months to support families affected by leprosy.
Professor Ashish Sharma of UNSW, for receiving the 2026 Arid Lands Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for his work combating climate change.
Girish Dwivedi, Professor of Cardiology at University of Western Australia, for being awarded Researcher of the Year by the South Metropolitan Health Service.
Devraj Yadav from Rewari, for conquering Noosa triathlon Ultraman Australia and completing a total distance of 515 km across cycling, running and open water swimming.
Anamika and Shabnam Mukhi, Western Sydney based artists, for bringing traditional Khatwa appliqué embroidery to the 61st Venice Biennale as part of Khaled Sabsabi's exhibition.
Acclaimed Indian author takes the stage for an insightful conversation on storytelling, history and the world we live in today. A must-attend for literature lovers.
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