People & Community

Nikita Asnani

Layers of My Lola: A Love Letter to My Nani

My grandparents migrated to India (Mumbai) from Sindh during the partition in 1947. After coming to India, my Nana (maternal grandfather)...

Priya Patel

Finding the Words: Is Mental Health Stigma Deep-Rooted in Our Languages?

I have always found it difficult to find the words in Gujarati to describe my general well-being, let alone talk about mental health....

Pardesi

EXHIBITION: From City Of Empire To City Of Diversity: A Visual Journey at the Library of Birmingham

A major photographic exhibition, ‘From City Of Empire To City Of Diversity: A Visual Journey,' featuring 1,000s of images of Birmingham...

Kaneeka Kapur

Two Billion Beats: In Conversation with Playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya

Two Billion Beats, opening 5 February, is a captivating play about what it means to grow up as a South Asian teenage girl in a world...

Aditi Wardhan Singh

How Do You Talk to Your Kids About Skin Color?

One afternoon, my son came home and told me, ”My friends and I put our hands together and they said I was different. ” I told this...

Rushi Ner

Addressing Mental Health In A South Asian Household

Rushi Ner explores the duality of secrecy of mental health in South Asian households and the responsibility on the children to be therapists

Pardesi

Future-Inspired Urban Fashion - Meet The Founder Of Mercury Dasha

Before launching Mercury Dasha, a future-inspired, urban fashion and design brand, Rita Sheth worked as a corporate lawyer for over ten...

Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar

Gnarly x Nikita Gill: we felt seen, we felt validated, and most importantly, empowered

The Gnarly x Nikita Gill event was transformative and (not to be dramatic) life changing. The crowd grew hushed as the lights dimmed down

Anu Kumar

Book Review: Love, Chai, and Other Four Letter Words by Annika Sharma

Would you risk everything for your soulmate? Anu Kumar and Shreya Sridharan review Annika Sharma's, Love, Chai and Other Four Letter Words.