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The Untold History of Sri Lanka’s Muslims
How colonial classification turned Sri Lanka’s Muslims into a permanent “other,” with consequences that endure today.
Feb 12
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Brown History
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How We're Taught To Be People-Pleasers
Sana Malik reflects on how South Asian culture shapes women into people pleasers, and what it takes to unlearn it.
Feb 11
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Brown History
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Learning The Language Of Pakistani Cooking
How memory, rhythm, and repetition form the architecture of Pakistani cooking.
Feb 10
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Brown History
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The Stolen Dead
How empire extended its reach even beyond death, when hundreds of thousands of Indian bodies were taken, processed, and never returned.
Feb 5
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Brown History
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'I Want To Live Freely. I Also Take Care Of My Parents.'
The tension between inherited duty and personal freedom; is it possible to live fully while still showing up for your parents?
Feb 4
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India’s Right-Wing Raves: Hindutva, Zionism, and Psychedelic Trance
Sep 2, 2025
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Heera Mandi: The Real Story behind Lahore's Red Light District
Feb 1, 2024
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Gold Inheritance: the Quiet Feminism of South Asian Women
Nov 8, 2022
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Reena Virk: Beyond the Headlines
Sep 14, 2022
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Food
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Learning The Language Of Pakistani Cooking
How memory, rhythm, and repetition form the architecture of Pakistani cooking.
Feb 10
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A British Chain Tried to Trademark Our Word for Vegetables. Yes, Seriously.
On sabzi, oral tradition, colonial paperwork, and the strange afterlives of empire.
Dec 9, 2025
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The Politics of Plain Food: A Deep Dive on Daal Chawal
On taxation, famine, displacement, and the food that kept us alive
Nov 20, 2025
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The Disappearing Taste of Home: What We Lose When We Stop Making Sandan
As sandan fades from Kokni Muslim kitchens, it raises the question of what we lose when food traditions vanish.
Oct 30, 2025
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Niyāz in the Shi’a Diaspora: Sacred Offerings and Syncretism
Votive food offerings, koonday ki niyāz, and diasporic memory.
Oct 10, 2024
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Read Your Way Through Kohima
To know Kohima is to feel its quiet endurance held in its hills its roads and its people. Here Hiya Seb shares the books that open a way into its…
Dec 6, 2025
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Read Your Way Through Karachi
To know Karachi is to surrender to its motion, a metropolis that expands, contracts, and reinvents itself each day. Here, photographer Umer Sheikh…
Nov 14, 2025
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Read Your Way Through Mumbai
A city of dreams on India’s western coast, Mumbai shimmers with ambition and sea breeze. Writer Zobia Alam recommends books that capture its spirit and…
Oct 31, 2025
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Read Your Way Through Amritsar
A golden city in the plains of Punjab, Amritsar hums with memory and devotion. Harleen Singh, author of The Lost Heer, recommends books that capture its…
Jul 30, 2025
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30 South Asian Novels to Read Before You Die
Full of life, rage, love, loss, and beauty.
Jun 11, 2025
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How Did Ancient Egypt and India Tell the Same Stories?
The Surprising Parallels in Egyptian and Hindu Mythology
Feb 3
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'If It Sounds Good, It Is Good': A Personal Guide to Indian Jazz
Sandeep Radhakrishnan explores how jazz travelled across continents and found an unlikely home in India.
Jan 29
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What a Life Looks Like Without Children
Sana Suratwala writes about choosing a childfree life in a culture where not having children is treated as unthinkable, reflecting on what fulfillment…
Jan 28
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The Story of Kerala’s Chayakkadas (Tea Shops)
In this tender, politically alive essay, Shereen Shaji traces how Kerala’s humble chayakkadas became classrooms, parliaments, and portals to the world.
Jan 27
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The Intertwined History of Hindi and Urdu
Vishavjeet Dhaliwal traces the intertwined origins of Hindi and Urdu, revealing how two deeply connected languages came to be seen as markers of…
Jan 22
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Why Do My Parents Have More Friends Than I Do?
The sudden grief of realizing that community does not automatically pass down.
Jan 21
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