Goodbye Shashi Kapoor

One of the brightest stars of our industry now resides in heaven, I guess it is God's turn to say "Mere Paas Shashi Kapoor hai".

A Dance of Protest

Hundreds of protestors gathered in San Francisco to protest against a scheduled hate rally in the city on the 25th of August 2017.

The so-called 'hate rally' was a ...

Virtual Beliefs

We're moving into an increasingly automatised world, and most jobs we know of today will disappear within the next decade or two, with the pace at which progress is happeni...

Endangered Language?

Language is the communication of thoughts and feelings through signals, writing or sounds. But on a wider level, language represents the different cultures of different com...

This Community Fridge Is Helping The Homeless & The Hungry

As the bell chimes loudly at the Shiv Temple in Versova, an elderly woman hobbles towards the temple’s gates, briefly stopping by the flower vendor, who nods at her a...

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...

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...

Music Festivals Add Harmony To Old Morocco

Ah, Morocco. To sit in the courtyard of a boutique riad, sipping mint tea from tiny ornate glasses as a sparrow dips its beak into a fountain strewn with rose petals and cl...

Inside Pakistan's Gender-Fluid Hijra Community

In conservative Pakistan, where religious extremists wage continuous battles against the government in the name of a strict interpretation of Islam, male cross-dressers, tr...