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Sonia Sabri: Embracing Light and Darkness Through Kathak
Sonia Sabri’s journey into Kathak dance started with a twist of fate. She was all set to learn Bharatnatyam, a style of dance from South India when destiny had other plans. By a stroke of luck (or perhaps fate), Sonia ended up in a Kathak class at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham. Picture a… Read more
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West End Debut: Charithra Chandran’s Breakthrough Performance
The anticipation was palpable as I hurried to the Garrick Theatre, barely taking a moment to glance at the poster or read the description. All I needed to see was the promise of Taylor Swift and Charithra Chandran, and I was already RSVPing yes to “Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon” before I finished reading the… Read more
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Baring It All with The Bare Bar: Radhika’s Story
When you think of social media strategy gone right, you think of The Bare Bar. But they’re more than just their (fantastic) content and customer testimonials — after all, the praise has to come from somewhere. Their tagline, ‘Simple. Clean. Sustainable’ tells you exactly what to expect and this interview with The Bare Bar’s founder,… Read more
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the victims will not be there to judge
they won’t judge the lives we’ll lead/ not the memorials/ not the protests/ they won’t judge the history told in their honor/ the mourning of their loss/ the fights we fight like hell/ the boycotts/ they won’t judge who crossed the picket lines/ the people coming together/ the politicians who enable their death/ the platitudes… Read more
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Standing Vigil
When I wrote my last piece for Reclamation Magazine in November last year, I had just been to a protest march in Cape Town. I was actively collecting what I called “pebbles of hope”, hoping that our shared humanity would bring an end to the merciless killing of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.… Read more
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Skin Serenade: How The Skög Nurtures Your Glow
This series aims to amplify the stories of the people behind small businesses that we know and love, so we’ve had many career journeys and paths featured here. But fashion business turned skincare? The Skög’s founder Gautami Agarwal has (cat)walked a different path from the ones we’ve featured before. Gautami’s journey began in Paris, where… Read more
