Too Taboo? The Secret of Male Body Image
The world we live in today is one of social struggle. The feminist movement has put women’s issues at the forefront of society, with criticism befalling anti-woman laws, sexist stories and misogynistic images. Our world is one in which...
Lest We Forget
Exploring the South Asian Contribution to the Great War
Asian contributions to both world wars are not widely known about, despite the fact that India raised the world’s largest volunteer armies: 1.5 million in WWI and 2.5 million in WWII....
Beauty Therapy Students Come First in World Skills UK Nail Art
Two Students nail themselves a place in the World Skills finals
Two students at South and City College Birmingham have fought off hundreds of competitors to nail themselves a place in the World Skills finals.
The two beauty therapy students took...
The Joy of Diwali
Though known as the festival of lights, Diwali is all about family bonding, welcoming in the New Year with your loved ones and feasting on homemade traditional delights. Being the most important festival in the Hindu calendar, families in...
The Relevance of Gandhi in the 21st Century
67 years on from Indian Independence
At midnight on 15th August 1947, exactly 67 years ago, India and Pakistan gained independence from the British Empire. Many gave their lives in the fight for freedom, a million more died during Partition...
My Asian Family – The Musical BBC Four
My Asian Family – The Musical tells the epic and inspiring story of one Asian family, the Thakrars, across three generations. Just 12 of them came to Britain in 1972 with nothing, fleeing for their lives from Idi Amin’s...
The Favoured, The Fallen and the Future
As we wave goodbye to 2016, it is time to reflect on everything the year gave us; from the wonderful to the wacky. We lost many icons in 2016, from actors to musicians to activists and there were many...
Priya’s Shakti
How One Rape Survivor is Challenging India’s Sexual Violence Problem
The epic comic book, Priya’s Shakti, which presents a new Indian hero who tackles the problem of sexual violence in India and around the world, is premiering at the...
The Village With The Gun
Remembering the Soldiers of the First World War, 100 years onA nineteenth century cannon sits at the centre of a Pakistani village.
Dulmial is a village approximately 100 miles south of Islamabad, in the Salt Range region. A century...
Tears for Benazir
Benazir Bhutto assassination rocks PakistanHER SUPPORTERS clapped and cheered as she emerged from the plane that brought her back into Pakistan from Dubai.
There was even a prayer to god and a tear as Benazir emerged to see her once familiar...
