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Foregrounding voices of colour
Fatima Qureshi speaks to Ansah Malik, a civil rights activist about how she, a fifth-generation Hong Konger resists the city’s nihilistic attitude towards racism Read More
Professor Aisha K. Gill argues that more needs to be done to improve the efficacy of initiatives designed to protect those at risk of forced marriage @DrAishaKGill Read More
Ciaran Thapar talks about how Indian food has helped him maintain a connection with his heritage after the passing of his grandmother
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
Midath Hayder asks if Bangladeshi food is about to go mainstream in the UK Read More
Henna Zamurd-Butt talks to Sharan Dhaliwal about how young British Asians are expressing their identity through art Read More
Henna Zamurd-Butt asks why London’s streetfood scene is missing the mark when it comes to desi food Read More
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
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
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
