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Snubs, slurs & sports: Stories this week 📌💡

India snubbed | Racism in We Were Liars | Rugby in India | First Aid in Punjabi | Harman Foundation's HER House

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Indian Link
26 Jun • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

In a bizarre twist, India, the victim of terrorism, got the short end of the stick when it comes to international support post-Pahalgam.

  S. RAJA GOPALAN

Time to confuse your brain just a little:

I travel in your tiffin but never get eaten,
I sit on your shelf but am not for reading.
I hold your past, your family, your name,
Yet I’m not a photo, not fortune, not fame.
What am I?

Think you know the answer? It is hiding somewhere in this newsletter.
Keep those eyes sharp and scroll like you mean it. 👀

We Were Liars (Prime Video) isn’t just a seaside thriller - it quietly exposes exclusion, discomfort, and the haunting truth of not being “white enough”.

KHUSHEE GUPTA

  • A massive congratulations to Indian-Australian actor Saksham Sharma, who is making his Hollywood debut in the upcoming action-thriller Ice Road: Vengeance. Sharing the screen with none other than Liam Neeson, his film is set to release in US theatres on June 27 - Aussie fans will have to wait a little longer!

  • Sydney’s Vik and Bhavisha Bhandari, for their seventh annual Men’s Health Awareness Ball, which raises awareness of men’s health issues ‘one ball at a time’. Five hundred guests gathered at a sold-out event last week to raise crucial funds for charities directly associated with men’s health issues.

India’s new Rugby Premier League boosts local sport and strengthens ties with Australia through grassroots and cross-border play.

PAWAN LUTHRA

Punjabi and Mandarin-speaking truckies can now access an online first-aid training program in their own language, to learn life-saving skills quicker.

MAMTA SHARMA

Harman Foundation in Western Sydney is driving a quiet revolution - a grassroots initiative that’s culturally safe, community-led, and entirely self-funded.

KHUSHEE GUPTA

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“ABC Management acted against the Fair Work Act when [Lattouf] was not given any opportunity to defend herself... as she held a political opinion opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza." 

Federal Court Justice Darryl Rangiah, presiding over the Lattouf v ABC case

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"Beta, show us a dance." 💃 or “Log kya kahenge?” 🤔
Turns out, 75% of you fear the dance-off more!