Nikesh Shukla divulges the inspiration behind his latest novel The Boxer. It was born from a personal experience Shukla experienced on a train ride home - a train ride that many of us can relate to.
Read MoreWe need to remember that homosexuality was criminalised by British colonial rule, because they didn’t like our sexual freedom.
Read MoreIt is in the hands of the impartial education system to give these children their best start in life. I had no one to look up to, to give me hope and even now the only queer Muslim role models I know are financially independent adults, not reliant for support from their family and community.
Read MoreThe impact of the British Raj reverberated throughout India’s history: the breakdown of unity between religions, the systematically institutionalised racism and exploitation of millions of people. Here in Britain we are defined by our past and the events of 1919 and 1947 carried social and political implications in the years to follow.
Read MoreIn an attempt to save my fellow fasting peers from these eye roll inducing questions, I thought it best to write a succinct Ramadan 101. Please feel free to share this article on your work Slack channel and your HR manager.
Read MoreThey don’t know about my girlfriend. They know of her through a fabricated story explaining that she’s basically a friend of a friend who I’m now extremely close to.
Read MoreIt’s crucial to examine why non-black woc, (either consciously subconsciously) may feel that their struggles and oppression are comparable to that of the black community in the first place.
Read MoreThis 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 MoreIt’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“Your bag with its spindly stick figures, painted in red on the canvas-white, remind me of home. Or what was once home. Maybe you think of home too? Thank you for sharing your past with me.”
Read MoreThis bicultural middle becomes a site of continuous accommodation - a common struggle that unites various communities of Asian Britians.
Read MoreI often pondered why it was that people continued to tell me that I was lucky to have ‘escaped’ my beautiful island homeland. They just assumed I was another poor, brown faced migrant.
Read MoreNeedless to say, this struggle is not India’s alone. Much of the colonised world suffers similarly. It is why Westerners forget that Africa is a continent, for instance.
Read MoreOnce, a British Asian friend from London referred to Taffistanis as “provincial Asians” with a subtle understanding that from his point of view, Taffistanis had more in common with other Welsh South Asian people outside of Cardiff than they did British Asian people in England.
Read MoreI 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 MoreUpon my further research of interfaith protests in Britain, I discovered that large organisations such as Sikh Youth UK, have been responsible for many of them.
Read MoreIn 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 MoreWhen an entire revolution takes place in a language that the less privileged do not speak, its accessibility is bound to remain beyond their reach.
Read More…they received letters from A's solicitor and came together as a group in order to support each other. The group includes one of A's ex-girlfriends, one of several of his former partners who are facing a libel claim, and feminist musicians who spoke out in support of these women.
Read MoreI began embodying a disparate identity, never fully leaning towards either side —disparaging my culture but loving it, too. Despising whiteness and the power white people had over me, their ability to make me feel less educated or ‘small', but wanting to immerse myself in it, too.
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