Ciaran Thapar talks about how Indian food has helped him maintain a connection with his heritage after the passing of his grandmother
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Parathas and parakeets: remembering grandma’s eternal kitchen
Migration & marriage: women of colour and the politics of surnames
From Bangladeshi tradition, to skipping to the top of the register, to marriage, Shahnaz Ahsan traces the ongoing political challenges behind her name Read More
Bangladeshis built the curry house, so where’s the Bangladeshi food?
Midath Hayder asks if Bangladeshi food is about to go mainstream in the UK Read More
What’s happening to British Asian culture?
Henna Zamurd-Butt talks to Sharan Dhaliwal about how young British Asians are expressing their identity through art Read More
‘Indian’ mac’n’cheese with yogurt is the reason why you should get your desi food in Southall* and not in Central London
Henna Zamurd-Butt asks why London’s streetfood scene is missing the mark when it comes to desi food Read More
Brown men belong in documentaries, not fine art: in conversation with photographer Mahtab Hussain
by Jamal Mehmood These are trying times for the subjects of Mahtab Hussain’s latest work. The artist’s series of portraits titled ‘You Get Me?’ is a timely look at young, working class South Asian men, who identify as Muslim. A community that is at once under pernicious state surveillance, as well as increasing intimidation from… Read More
How to be Desi in 2017: Riz MC and Heems are forging a new cultural reflection of South Asians in diaspora
by Iman Sultan I don’t normally get moved by music videos, but Swet Shop Boys’ internet-released video, “Aaja”, a track off their Cashmere album, released late last year, felt like salvation A tribute to Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch, who was murdered last summer, and whose very death made her an icon, the video… Read More
Walking While Brown While Looking Black
by R. Benedito Ferrão On February 6, 2015, an Indian man was left partially paralyzed, following an encounter with the police in Madison, Alabama, USA. News of the event spread on social media and elsewhere online. When it became known that a police car had captured video of the incident on its dashboard camera, an… Read More
“Nope, You Really Can’t Say That”: My Love/Hate Relationship with The Mindy Project
by Nashwa Khan Living in what can sometimes feel like a South Asian feminist echo chamber, we become accustomed to never questioning those we idolize. As a result, years have gone by without Mindy Kaling’s body of work being critically examined within our community. Many black women have made observations of Kaling’s anti-blackness on social… Read More
“Some People Are Gaysian – Get Over It!”
by Khakan Qureishi Last year, I participated in a project whose aim was to explore the issues surrounding people who identify as LGBT amongst South Asian communities in the UK. The interviewer asked the following three questions: 1) Why are LGBT South Asians still “hidden”? 2) Why aren’t there any visible role models of South… Read More
