Topic: India
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Ishy Din Q&A: ‘There is a lot of generational trauma that came from the partition of India’
The award-winning playwright on his retelling of partition and the legacy of empire for British South Asians
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Hyphenated: Episode 24
We’re at the Labour party conference this week, discussing Keir Starmer’s leadership, escalating violence in the Middle East, and David Beckham’s Netflix documentary. Plus, Professor Sunny Singh on her new book A Bollywood State of Mind.
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Hyphenated: Episode 20
This week our panel looks beyond the headlines on stories including anti-Muslim violence in India and the impact of France’s abaya ban. Plus, Hyphen’s Hussein Kesvani on the big bidet takeover.
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The British Raj-era poet who returned a knighthood
The writings of the Bengali Nobel prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore continue to resonate with young British Muslims to this day
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Asma Khan Q&A: ‘The most expensive ingredient in any dish is your time’
The chef and cookbook author on how her upbringing inspired the all-women Darjeeling Express kitchen
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The literary history of the Koh-i-noor diamond
Western and South Asian writers and poets have written about the gemstone — seized from India by the British — with often contradicting worldviews
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Online disinformation from India fuelled Leicester unrest
Analysis reveals Twitter posts by Hindu nationalists incited tensions between Muslims and Hindus
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The man who spiced up life in the Georgian era
Sake Dean Mahomet, a 19th-century Muslim pioneer, established the first Indian restaurant in Britain
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East London is mango capital of the UK
While most Londoners are asleep, dozens of mainly South Asian traders buy and sell hundreds of tonnes of mangoes which are then transported nationwide.
