Category: CULTURE
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Status Symbols in India and their Colonial Roots – Part III: Architecture
The roots of colonialism in India have been firmly in place since 1858, when the British Raj came to power. India was completely transformed, and even since their independence in 1947, the country’s colonial past is apparent in the everyday lives of all Indians. A country that was built on…
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Status Symbols in India and their Colonial Roots – Part II: English
The roots of colonialism in India have been firmly in place since 1858, when the British Raj came to power. India was completely transformed, and even since their independence in 1947, the country’s colonial past is apparent in the everyday lives of all Indians. A country that was built on…
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Cooking up a storm in a Desi Kitchen
Sarah Woods, the author of Desi Kitchen, left her corporate role at a leading pharmaceutical company to pursue a career in food. She honed her cooking skills at Ashburton Chef’s Academy in Devon, prior to taking the leap and then debuted on BBC One’s ‘Britain’s Best Home Cook’. During the…
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Interviewing Jyoti Patel, author of ‘The Things That We Lost’
This moving coming-of-age story explores what it means to be a person of colour in Britain today, discussing themes of identity and the stories that we tell ourselves to manage trauma. Paying homage to her Gujarati roots, The Things That We Lost is a beautifully tender exploration of family, loss,…
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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 to power. India was completely transformed, and even since its independence in 1947, the country’s colonial past is apparent in the everyday lives of all Indians. A country…
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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 to the Lakota, or Lakota Sioux, tribe. This location has been a sacred area for several indigenous tribes in South Dakota for hundreds of years. However, you might…
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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 Raj’s withdrawal from undivided India in August 1947, the Radcliffe Line was drawn between the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan. The task of demarcating the boundary…
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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, and the martyrdom of Imam Hussain. I can’t help but cry uncontrollably. August is the month I pour my grief onto the prayer mat. I stay there for…
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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, recovered addict, and recipient of the Lambda Literary Award For Lesbian Fiction, Tea writes candidly about her struggles with mental health, her many heartbreaks, and her joyful promiscuity.…