Australia India Institute Podcast

Chats Over Chai with Kishwar Chowdhury

As a pioneer in her field, Kishwar is contributing to the food tapestry of Australia through cultural exchange. In this podcast, Kishwar sheds a light on roots of South Asian cooking, celebrating Australian produce and local growers. Listen to how Kishwar shares her experience of India, her leadership as a South Asian woman making an impact on India Australia ties through shared produce. As an advocate for food security, Kishwar sees food as a celebration but also a basic human right, a basic need. Her support for ASRC and UNWFP highlights the impact on food systems in refugee camps in Bangladesh and its empowerment for women. Kishwar shares how Australia has come a long way embracing South Asian flavours and a growing South Asian diaspora from the 1980s to feeling comfortable taking a samosa to school, as much as a Vegemite sandwich. She shares how much more confident the current generation is through food and how Australian society has changed over time. Her connection between Australia and India shared through food, family and cultural celebrations is a journey bringing so much life to multicultural Australia through sharing her joy of cooking and cuisine.

In conversation with Mike Cannon-Brookes and Suhasini Haidar

Investing in Renewable Energy: Collaborating through Tech  This podcast was recorded live in New Delhi on the sixth of September, during the Australia India Leadership Dialogue. It is conversation between Mike Cannon-Brookes, the co-CEO and co-Founder of Australian founded tech company Atlassian, and Suhasini Haidar, the Diplomatic Editor of The Hindu. It delves into Mike's passion for investing in renewable energy, why there is an urgency to decarbonise our two economies, and how Australia and India can work together to achieve net zero emissions targets.

Chats over Chai - Love and Tagore: Home and the World

Tagore is one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India, alongside the likes of Nehru, Gandhi and Ambedkar. He was a world-renowned poet, composer, playwright, painter and social reformer among many other things and was best known outside of South Asia for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, that awarded him the Nobel prize in Literature 1913, the first non-European to win such a prize. Tagore authored around 200 books and made 3000 artworks. He founded an art school, university, and rural development institute and composed the National anthems of both India and Bangladesh. There are a myriad of reasons to study Tagore, so today we are going to explore his work on love in terms of its norm-making and worldmaking. To explore this, CEO Lisa Singh will be joined by two leading Tagore scholars: Dr Liane Hartnett and Professor Bindu Puri for this Chats over Chai podcast episode.

Chats over Chai with Arpita Das

Dr. Surjeet Dhanji, Manager for Victorian Government Projects at the Australia India Institute chats to Arpita Das, founder of Yoda Press, and Editor of South Asian Series, Melbourne University Press. Arpita is also visiting faculty, lecturer at Ashoka University, where she teaches critical thinking. Amongst her many other ventures is her feminist electives, and in this podcast, Arpita shares with us her journey as a writer, publisher, advisor, and teacher.

Chats over Chai - In conversation with Tamil Nadu's Finance Minister

Tamil Nadu located in the southern Part of India, is the country’s 2nd largest economy, 3rd largest exporting state and currently contributes 8.95% to India's net exports. Over the years the state has attracted tremendous investment and emerged as the number one investment destination in the first nine months of the Financial Year of 2022. The state is also a leader in renewables and has been contributing 16 per cent to India’s total installed grid capacity connected to renewables and is ranked 9th globally in net share of wind energy in total power generation. The list of Tamil Nadu’s achievements goes on! There is no doubt that concerted efforts from the government, industry and the people of the state have played a significant role in bringing these outcomes for the state. On this podcast we have Australia India Institute CEO The Hon Lisa Singh in conversation with the Finance Minister of the State The Hon. Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, helping us understand Tamil Nadu’s journey in becoming India’s top investment hub.