Indian Link

Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘My dad, in his own words’ is a Father’s Day tribute series where we ask children to interview their fathers, showcasing their intergenerational bond and celebrating the eventful lives they’ve both had. Here Rhea Verma, President of the Indian Youth Association Victoria (IYAV) chats to her father Gurpreet (Gary) Verma, President of the Hindu Council of Australia, Victorian Chapter and Vice-President of Sri Durga Temple Rockbank.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Every September, Apple pulls off the same small miracle. It rearranges roughly three components on a rectangle, adds a hyper-adjective – PRO, MAX, ULTRA, GALACTIC – and persuades several hundred million otherwise financially literate adults that the rectangle currently in their pocket has become an embarrassment.

Reading Time: 3 minutes When Geetanjali Shree took to the stage at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in late August to discuss her acclaimed novel Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand, translated by Daisy Rockwell), the conversation travelled well beyond the book – into language, borders, identity and the expectations placed on women and writers alike. Geetanjali made history in 2022 when she became the first Indian author to win the International Booker Prize for the novel.

Reading Time: 4 minutes New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has taken the state’s engagement with India a step further, using a high-level Mumbai reception to promote stronger links across education, skills, research, tourism and culture.

Reading Time: 4 minutes On 26th August, across the Nepal-Tibet border, what seems like a sudden ice-rock avalanche or glacier collapse sent massive volumes of debris and water cascading down the Bhote Koshi River. The intensity of the flood tore down buildings and bridges in an instant, and transformed known places and entire landscapes in the blink of an eye. A week later, the death toll stands at over 1,100 and those missing at close to 4000.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian Link’s September 2026 favourites A campus novel, a coming-of-age story, a pandemic saga – Malavika Kannan’s adult debut is all that, and then some. (Source: People Magazine) September 2026 favourites This year has seen its fair share of Gen-Z writers trying to make it big in the literary space. One of the standouts by far is Malavika Kannan with her debut novel Unprecedented Times.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Over four days in New Delhi and Mumbai, the NSW Premier and Treasurer combined the serious business of trade and investment with the sort of images that play extremely well back home: rubbing shoulders with India’s political and corporate heavyweights, as well as moments at cricket, places of worship, dabbawalas, charity organisations. And that was probably the point. This was not simply a business delegation.

Reading Time: 4 minutes An Indian company at the centre of a global visa-services empire is facing fresh scrutiny in Spain and continuing legal battles over government contracts – just months after former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison joined it as a global strategic adviser. The company is BLS International, an India-based provider of visa, passport, biometric and consular services for governments around the world.

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you put my dad Dya Singh’s name into a search engine, AI will tell you that he ‘is an internationally acclaimed Australian-Sikh world music singer and musician who is widely recognised for pioneering a unique fusion of traditional devotional hymns (shabads) with contemporary global music genres… and has spent decades bridging cultural gaps by introducing Sikh musical traditions to broader Western audiences.’ I’m here to tell you that they are absolutely right! And I...

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