The importance of Polite Society
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That’s undeniable from the film - the exaggerated action, the silliness of the dramatics, the aesthetics and adornments are all brought from someone who admired Bollywood
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How Joyland confronts the patriarchy by challenging gender norms
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“The trans existence is a direct challenge to the patriarchal way of thinking”, Sadiq tells me when I ask about why having trans characters is important to him.
Read More"Not just Brown, not just Indian" with Mathushaa Sagthidas
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“This project was created out of frustration from the lack of representation of South Asians from an authentic perspective within publications and gallery spaces”
Read MoreBishi carves her own universe with a rock-sitar and tireless dedication
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The delicate issues surrounding race, class and heritage that marinated over the following years became central to her expression and is the subject of the long-anticipated third album 'Let My Country Awake'.
Read MoreMilli Bhatia on the Seven Methods Of Killing Kylie Jenner
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It’s set in 2019, but it’s extraordinary to come back to it now in this world and see how important everything in the play still is and how urgently this conversation still needs to happen.
Read MoreBisha K. Ali is amplifying marginalised voices in TV and Film
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I spoke to Bisha about this work specifically – as someone who has and is continuing to do amazing work in an industry that feels gatekept and elitist, she’s letting others know that they can and should be in the same room she’s in.
Read MoreSpeaking to Razia Iqbal about her life and work as a journalist
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“I was standing in the lift and my boss very casually asked me what I was doing in the next few days. I said something like admin stuff and laundry. He then asked ‘how would you like to go to Pakistan?’ Within seconds, I said yes.”
Read MoreSaachi Sen's song 'Dark' speaks to colourism in the South Asian community
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wasn’t aware of any other work she did until I came across a new song she released called ‘Dark’. It speaks to the deep rooted issue of colourism in South Asian communities.
Read MoreINSOMNIA - A Depressed Bisexual Insomniac Indian Writer And Sex Worker
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South Asian characters are often the least dynamic ones in our media and I was frustrated by those portrayals when I know our people to be vibrant, smart, complicated, messy, and well...human.
Read MoreDiscussing Mental Health In India With Therapy Initiative Aaina
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We’ve been so economically insecure for so long that we’ve got a survival mindset etched into our psyches. This makes us tribal in ways that fuels other-ing along these lines of class, caste, gender, sexuality. It also sanctions a great deal of in-group policing.
Read MoreDelhi Crime and Our Fascination With True Crime
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This show allows us to give the voice back to women, but the overwhelming voice is from the police force. Are we humanising a particularly corrupt police force for any reason other than storytelling?
Read MoreMadhur Jaffrey Just Mimed The Word 'Fuck'
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It’s important to celebrate them when we can, with our own success and the turning clock of generations – we can still and absolutely always should be looking back.
Read More#RepresentAsian with Nikesh Patel
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I recently did a radio show, and at the end of the show, the presenter said to me ‘I really enjoyed that, we should really get you in again and make you do non Indian roles’.
Read MoreThese Are The 'Women Who Won' From Bradford's WOW Festival
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In Bradford, a city which recently hosted the third Women of the World (WOW) Bradford festival that celebrates women and young girls and takes a frank look at the obstacles they face.
Read More#RepresentAsian with Mim Shaikh
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Mim Shaikh is a BBC Radio broadcaster, actor, spoken word artist. With his recent debut documentary Finding Dad on BBC Three, and his latest role in the BBC TV Drama Informer.
Read More#RepresentAsian with Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
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Sharmeen is an Academy Award and an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker. Her most recent work includes documentary features Song of Lahore and A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers.
Read More#RepresentAsian with Hussain Manawer
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At work I’m someone else, at my aunties I’m someone else, with my boys I’m someone else, like you have to be so many different people to please so many people, whilst trying to figure out what exactly who you are or where you belong as an individual.
Read MoreTackling Fear and Perceptions
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We speak to MS Karamat about her international project ‘Fear and Memory’, where the central theme of the project is based around fear from perceptions on terrorism.
Read More#RepresentAsian with Shazad Latif
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#RepresentAsian is a series by Nosheen M, where she speaks to experts in their field, about how they got to where they are.
Read MoreMeet Natco
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Reeta talks to our favourite food brand Natco about the work they’re doing - that you may not be aware of.
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