Bishi carves her own universe with a rock-sitar and tireless dedication

Bishi carves her own universe with a rock-sitar and tireless dedication

The delicate issues surrounding race, class and heritage that marinated over the following years became central to her expression and is the subject of the long-anticipated third album 'Let My Country Awake'.

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Bisha K. Ali is amplifying marginalised voices in TV and Film

Bisha K. Ali is amplifying marginalised voices in TV and Film

I spoke to Bisha about this work specifically – as someone who has and is continuing to do amazing work in an industry that feels gatekept and elitist, she’s letting others know that they can and should be in the same room she’s in.

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Speaking to Razia Iqbal about her life and work as a journalist

Speaking to Razia Iqbal about her life and work as a journalist

“I was standing in the lift and my boss very casually asked me what I was doing in the next few days. I said something like admin stuff and laundry. He then asked ‘how would you like to go to Pakistan?’ Within seconds, I said yes.”

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Discussing Mental Health In India With Therapy Initiative Aaina

Discussing Mental Health In India With Therapy Initiative Aaina

We’ve been so economically insecure for so long that we’ve got a survival mindset etched into our psyches. This makes us tribal in ways that fuels other-ing along these lines of class, caste, gender, sexuality. It also sanctions a great deal of in-group policing.

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#RepresentAsian with Hussain Manawer

#RepresentAsian with Hussain Manawer

At work I’m someone else, at my aunties I’m someone else, with my boys I’m someone else, like you have to be so many different people to please so many people, whilst trying to figure out what exactly who you are or where you belong as an individual.

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