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Masterpieces 📚, Minerals 🪨, and Masterchefs 🧑‍🍳

Int'l Booker Prize for Banu Mushtaq | Albo's 'giant' opportunity | On critical minerals | Cutting Chai with Ahona Guha | It’s Sanjeev Kapoor on video! | NEW ISSUE out!

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

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

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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 AO (iOmniscient Pty Ltd) and Prof. Rajeev Varshney (Murdoch University), who are among 26 distinguished scientists announced as Fellows by the Australian Academy of Science this week.

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

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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 CALD and BIPOC women artists in the ritualistic interdisciplinary work The Heart Whispers and Whirls – a 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 anthology Heart Lamp, which has taken out the International Booker Prize for 2025

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