How Queer Muslims Are Navigating Religion & Sexuality

I met Mohammed Shaik Hussain Ali in that quintessential San Francisco meeting space — an airy industrial coffee shop — busy, crowded, in fact, for a Sunday morn...

Women's Bodies Go Uncensored

Images of women aren’t hard to find, but images of women honestly expressing their womanhood can be. Stiff poses meant to elicit desire or project docility crowd maga...

Poojita Chowdhury: The Accidental Filmmaker

Interview With Poojita Chowdhury

Our creative director, Shiv Bhalla caught up with Poojita Chowdhury, whose film ‘Gender Bender’ has been making waves. ...

Actor Kunal Kapoor Comes To The Rescue Of The Uri Martyrs

“When I handed over the cheque to TS Somnath’s family, I felt a bit relieved; but I knew that what Somnath did for our country can never be repaid. That does no...

Varanasi: A Journey Beyond The Within

The first impression of this “holy” city were singular moments of “unholiness” tied together by exasperation and a tense feeling of confusion. As we...

An Acid Attack Survivor’s Dream Of Owning A Salon’s Coming True Thanks To Miranda House Students

Soniya Choudhary survived a horrific acid attack that left her face damaged. And she wants to make sure other people look and feel their best. A fighter by nature, this bea...

Make-a-Wish helps 7-Year-Old Jedi Defeat Darth Vader

The force was definitely with this one. A couple hundred people gathered at CityPlace in West Palm Beach Saturday night to witness 7-year-old Brady defeat Darth Vader. To b...

Japan’s Gender-Bending History

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In th...

Shell's 1991 Warning: Climate Changing ‘At Faster Rate Than At Any Time Since End Of Ice Age’

Climate change “at a rate faster than at any time since the end of the ice age – change too fast perhaps for life to adapt, without severe dislocation”. T...