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The Taliban have barred us from the workplace, cut our access to healthcare and closed schools to us. Must we struggle alone?We suddenly all woke in the middle of the night. A piercing cry came from the corner of our room. It was my teenage sister, sob…
Read MoreFor years, Bibi Hasenaar felt rejected because she was adopted aged four. Then she saw a photo that described her as missing – and began to uncover an astonishing dark historyƒBibi Hasenaar has had two lives. One began in November 1976, when she was ab…
Read MoreI was adopted as a baby and was hoping to answer the question of where I’m from. Instead, the trip reminded me of my deep love for my familyOur three-week trip to India was coming to an end and I still hadn’t found an answer to the question that had os…
Read MoreAs rising temperatures make traditionally hot and sticky Japanese summer months more severe, those toiling outside are turning to the fan-jakketo The de rigueur jacket in Japan for this year’s summer season is a functional little number with twin elect…
Read MorePeople buying full-face masks alongside hats, fans – and hats with inbuilt fans – as temperatures rise above 35CIn scorching Beijing, “facekinis” are the hottest new fashion as surging temperatures shatter records.With the air temperature rising above …
Read MoreThe traditional staple is losing the battle with more convenient and cheaper alternative foods The Dojima branch of Yoshinoya in Osaka is doing a roaring lunchtime trade. As soon as one diner vacates their counter seat, another takes their place, while…
Read MoreVeena Torchia always felt like an outsider in London, but found peace when she and her husband moved to RajasthanEarlier this year, Veena Torchia was sitting in her garden in Pushkar in northern India, eating a very ripe mango. As she bit into it, she …
Read MoreContrary to a Guardian article, the island is more of a day trip destination for Hongkongers than a forbidding outpost, writes John WeaverJungle-filled island? Seriously? I thought I was reading about a different island from the one I’d lived on for ei…
Read MoreDespite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer‘Hell-on-earth excruciating pain,” is how Ruhi Singh* describes her exp…
Read MoreFreedom to use devices could curb prostitution, divorce and sex-related crimes, says Democrat party politicianA conservative Thai political party has backed the legalisation of sex toys as it seeks to revive its appeal before a looming general election…
Read MoreExporting churpi, herders’ smoked yak cheese, has transformed lives in remote Himalayan villagesOn a cold, wet August morning in the windswept high pastures of the Nepalese Himalayas, a stream of herders bring fresh milk to a makeshift tent at an altit…
Read MoreAt eight, I was sent from England to live with relatives in Goa for four years. The experience shook me out of my timid existence and led to a profound sense of belongingIn 1984, I boarded a musty Air India plane with my aunt, leaving my parents and ba…
Read MoreMy new independence has been met with everything from curiosity to awkward laughter. But this is about me, not themWhen Lost Migrations, an animated film series I’d been waiting to see for months, finally premiered in Karachi earlier this year, I immed…
Read MoreBabysitting is all very well, but to truly lighten a woman’s load, partners must juggle physical, emotional and cognitive labour‘Like many men of my generation, I wanted to be a more present father than my own had been.” As I read the first sentence of…
Read MoreWhich language immigrant parents should speak at home has been endlessly debated. For now, we have not passed Urdu onto our childrenAs a second-generation British Pakistani growing up in Bradford, I was surrounded by Urdu and smatterings of Punjabi. En…
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