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EMPOWERMENT
What is it like to stay clear with Clearica?
Archana and Anuj Rathi come from a family that supplies colours, such as paints and inks, to businesses in India, but they…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
UNCATEGORIZED
How Hair Veda Connects The Past With the Present
Before Aneeka Chauhan built Hair Veda, she studied Optometry at university and was practising as a qualified optometrist. As an optometrist she…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
LIFE
Cancer Never Forgets Your Address
The movies got it wrong. That was all I could think about on my three-hour flight back home to Philadelphia. My parents…
UMA PATEL
UNCATEGORIZED
How the culture of eating meat links to patriarchal masculinity
Food is political. It can bring communities together. It can also shape different aspects of our identities, often with or without our…
KAMANA
CULTURE
Status Symbols in India and their Colonial Roots – Part I: Colorism
Featured Illustration: Uday Deb The roots of colonialism in India have been firmly in place since 1858, when the British Raj came…
ARIANA BHARGAVA
CULTURE, POLITICS
Carving Out Indigenous History
The Story Behind the Black Hills   The Heart of Everything That Is is what the Black Hills have been known as…
ARIANA BHARGAVA
POLITICS
A Colonial Parable
A long, long time ago, some travellers from a northern country sailed into a bay to seek shelter on their journey around…
NADIA KAMIES
LIFE
What I Know Now
One of the benefits of having a birthday in December is that I can tie every year-end learning to every new age’s…
UMA PATEL
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
The Partition
The Partition is known to be the world’s largest mass migration, displacing 14 million people and killing another million. Following the British…
MALIYA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Grief in August
And so I write to my Rabb this time… Whenever August rolls around I become numb.  From the Partition to Article 370,…
MALIYA
THE ARTS
Why Should You Even Care About Diversity in Publishing?
Diversity in the publishing industry is and has always been lacking. Examples range from a disproportionate shortage of diverse books to the…
FAITH DEHGHAN
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Michelle Tea On Knocking Herself Up And The Fertility Industrial Complex
Initiating with the radical transparency that she will thus continue, it is 2011 when Tea’s reproductive odyssey commences. A former sex worker,…
MAEDBH PIERCE

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