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As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against children with darker complexionsThree months ago, a high court judge in Chhattisgarh, India, hearing a divorce petition by a husband whose wi…
Read MoreBangladeshi residents and others in Monfalcone say decisions to prohibit worship at cultural centres and banning burkinis at the beach is part of anti-Islam agendaThe envelope containing two partially burned pages of the Qur’an came as a shock. Until t…
Read MoreSouth Asians today are between four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people. While the role of diet and lifestyle has been explored, it’s only recently that the impact of the disproportionate famines under British colonial ru…
Read MoreState bill would address trauma by amending housing, labor and education codes to explicitly prohibit discrimination, leaders sayCalifornia could soon become the first state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste, propelling a growing civil rights…
Read MorePoor box office performance reflects broader challenge for Hollywood as it vies with domestic productionsThe poor performance of Disney’s The Little Mermaid at the Chinese box office has reopened questions on Hollywood’s increasing difficulties in the …
Read MoreThenmozhi Soundararajan has spent her life battling for equity. Now California could pass a landmark law protecting itThenmozhi Soundararajan had one of her earliest encounters with India’s ancient caste ladder when she was 10, during a playdate at a f…
Read MoreReaders respond to David Olusoga’s article on how slavery shaped the Guardian, Britain and the worldMy career in textiles from the 1970s to the 1990s took me many times to the mills of West Yorkshire and Lancashire. Being fascinated with old buildings,…
Read MoreActor and former Miss World announced move to US at pinnacle of her fame in India eight years agoThe Indian actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas has spoken of how Bollywood’s enduring obsession with fair skin was one of the reasons she left the industry to try …
Read MoreAs migration from south Asia booms, Australia’s human rights commission is looking at stronger measures against caste-based discriminationWhen Rakesh Kumar migrated to Australia from Punjab in India 16 years ago, the discrimination followed him. Before…
Read MorePractitioners fear Indian culture has been ‘suppressed by colonisation’ while some question accessibilityYoga has been a big part of Nadia Gilani’s life since she was introduced to the practice by her mother at the age of 16. A few years ago, after var…
Read MoreDavid Ochterlony Dyce Sombre was the first, not Dadabhai Naoroji, says Tony BerrettDavid Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-51) was the first Asian MP, not Dadabhai Naoroji, as Dr Peter Chadha and Zaki Cooper claim (Letters, 25 October). Dyce Sombre was elec…
Read MoreDirector says it’s ‘time to tell new stories’ as people from south Asian diaspora contribute experiencesA museum with a dizzying, encyclopaedic collection that spans Egyptian mummies, dinosaur skeletons and live Costa Rican frogs is to reopen next year…
Read MoreWe should quickly abandon wishful thinking in order to be truly ready for Rishi SunakThe world has watched in appalled fascination as the UK’s ruling party scrapes the bottom of its human resources barrel: it found there its first Black chancellor of t…
Read MoreThere is a complex story behind his arrival at No 10. The Conservatives worked hard to erase a hatred that went back to the era of ChurchillRishi Sunak’s arrival in No 10 is a more complex story than that of the first brown man to hold the highest offi…
Read MoreReaders respond to Afua Hirsch’s article calling for Britain to confront the painful truth of its colonial pastAfua Hirsch’s article explicitly describes the everlasting damage created in the name of colonialism (This is a Britain that has lost its Que…
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