The British Indian Jewish Association held its fifth 'Bagels and Samosas' webinar on Thursday 26 November with guest speaker Sathnam Sanghera. He was interviewed by committee member Natalie Joseph about his career and his new book 'Empireland'...
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23rd Jun 2025 | Updated at 12:21pm 23rd Jun 2025
Seeing India anew through an outsider’s soul
Stephen P Huyler is an art historian, cultural anthropologist, photographer, and author who has spent over five decades documenting India’s sacred art, crafts, and rural traditions. Averaging four months a year in Indian villages, he has recently...
Weaving climate justice
The Unreasonable Transformers of South India is a stirring chronicle of craft, courage, and climate justice.
Indian diaspora in the UK has raised concerns against a GCSE religious studies workbook which called Hindus ‘terrorists’ trying to protect their beliefs. The publisher withdrew the book titled ‘GCSE Religious Studies: Religion, Peace and Conflict’,...
The HarperCollins Traineeship, set up to help address underrepresentation in HarperCollins and in the wider publishing industry, is open for applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates for the fifth year running. Applications...
Women in engineering are seldom heard about within South Asian families. Women as mechanical engineers further tend to raise eyebrows among the community. But, Dr. Shini Somara is determined to break all stigma and prejudice associated with...
On Sunday 14th June, Afua Hirsch alleged The Sunday Times of racism. Hirsch tweeted a screenshot of the publication’s review of her book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging. She was supported by writer Nikesh Shukla who has previously...
British Asian authors are pushing for diverse characters to be included in childrens’ colouring books and other literature in an attempt to educate children about multi-culturalism and integration.
On Sunday 21st June, the South Asian Solidarity Group in association with the Bong Film Club are hosting a zoom webinar discussion on Satyajit Ray’s movie ‘Ghare Baire’.
A criminal barrister has penned a coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim Shia household.
An award-winning spoken word artist has announced her debut book ‘Brown Girl Like Me’. In her latest book, Jaspreet Kaur explores and chronicles the struggles of being Brown, British and a feminist.
As Ramadan begins and the feast of Eid at its conclusion beckons, A Taste of Eid offers a seat at the table, showing how the feasts of Eid al-Fitr (Little Eid) and Eid al-Adha (Big Eid) are celebrated in the UK, UAE and wider Arab world, bringing...
