{"id":24236,"date":"2022-11-16T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T01:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/?post_type=story&p=24236"},"modified":"2025-01-31T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:48:33","slug":"janaki-easwar-the-indian-diaspora-connect-at-the-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/old.globalindian.com\/youth\/story\/cover-story\/janaki-easwar-the-indian-diaspora-connect-at-the-t20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Janaki Easwar: The Indian diaspora connect at the T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
(November 16, 2022)<\/strong> Wearing a pink dress, a tikka<\/em> glittering on her forehead, surrounded by Bharatnatyam dancers and backed by Australian rock band Icehouse, 13-year-old Janaki Easwar won a million hearts at the closing ceremony of the T20 World Cup at the Melbourne Stadium.<\/div>\n
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As cricket-crazy Indians mourned the team’s loss to England in the semi-finals, India made its presence felt, through the Indian-Australian teen sensation with the strikingly deep voice. Titled “We Can Get Together,” Janaki’s multicultural performance<\/a> was a nod to India’s growing soft power. “I believe the way I represented my culture on national television also helped as the performance at the World Cup final is going to be a great representation of multicultural Australia,” the Global Indian<\/em> <\/a>told the Indian Express<\/em> <\/a>before her performance.<\/div>\n
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