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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

“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. 

“This project was created out of frustration from the lack of representation of South Asians from an authentic perspective within publications and gallery spaces”

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'.

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

#RepresentAsian is a series by Nosheen M, where she speaks to experts in their field, about how they got to where they are.

Reeta talks to our favourite food brand Natco about the work they’re doing - that you may not be aware of.

Images we see shape our world, and have the potential to create fundamental changes in our belief and ideology.

These first steps were really important for us to establish the ethos of the group, namely one that was as diverse as possible and didn’t just showcase fair-skinned, North Indian, Muslim and Hindu women.

we speak to some of the BOBBA artists to see what they're doing now and what the exhibition meant to them.

The section of the photography exhibit documenting the fight for independence and the struggle of partition is particularly striking.

The photo series features women from diverse industries, with a desire to transform and disrupt the restrictive narratives of the Muslim woman.

As designers their responsibility is in their trade, to challenge the expectations of an industry steeped in capitalist and colonial mindset.

it's a very visceral image, bringing the elegance of a rose and the ugliness of the Jihadi narrative. So what if we could bring some humanity back to that word?

The older I get, the more I realise how lost I was and am as a kid of the diaspora.

"Never be afraid to speak up. Confidence and honesty is key, be confident and honest in what you speak on."

On the heels of the sets of Hawaii Five-0 and Prison Break, Burnt Roti talk family, stereotypes and all things acting with Faran Tahir.