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Why does expressing vulnerability feels natural in one language and awkward in another?

The curious case of how facial hair on men becomes a tool wielded by those in power in India.

The forgotten history of shell money: a currency that connected continents and financed slavery.

The complicated guilt of loving a mother whose sacrifices made her daughter's freedom possible.

Tracing the Roma back to the Indian subcontinent reveals a history shaped by migration.

Recent posts

The story of Khes, a humble Punjabi textile that carries the imprint of a shared history fractured by Partition.

Last week, we wrote about the South Asian man-child; now the often-overlooked counterpart: the Brown woman-parent.

How the logic of lynching appears to echo through modern India's politics of violence.