Aarti Betigeri is a journalist, writer and Melburnian currently living in Canberra.
A new exhibition highlights how the sari has been reinvented, reshaping how it is understood and worn, and what it says about modern India.
The Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things explores her complicated relationship with her late mother in her new book.
For myself and other Australians, bad appointments have the power to undermine the sanctity of the entire awards.
Canberra should rename some of its suburbs if it wants to uphold its image as a city of progressive values.