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We’ve published over 1,650 stories at The Juggernaut diving into South Asian culture, politics, history, profiles, business, and tech. Here are all of our stories for you to peruse, with the most recent first.

Vijay Deverakonda at his wedding (The House on the Clouds)

Move Over Mehndi. Alta is Having a Revival.

Bollywood aesthetics dominated weddings for decades. Now, the ancient red dye is reclaiming its place.

Ushoshi Das

Isha Banerjee

Why Did No One Stop Sunny Naqvi?

Exclusive: The Juggernaut reviewed court filings and police records to reveal how she kept getting away with it.

Tulika Bose

How ‘Chiraiya’ Exposes India’s Marital Rape Exception

A streaming series is forcing people to confront a reality the law refuses to recognize. Will it also create real change?

Snigdha Sur

Living the Life of Puja

Everyone’s arguing about her rise. What if they’re missing the point?

Snigdha Sur

Mohammed Jamal makes homemade brandy in 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The pressure cooker is filled with fermented melons, bananas or grapes. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

The Secret Life of Afghan Wine

Drinking can cost you your life. Yet many are risking it all to preserve the ancient tradition that has survived religion, war, and bans.

Siobhan Neela-Stock

Fawad Khan, Shakun Batra, and Sidharth Malhotra on the set of 'Kapoor & Sons' (2016)

Why ‘Kapoor & Sons’ Couldn’t Be Made Today

No star wanted to play a gay man. Studios didn’t want a broken family. In an exclusive, Shakun Batra tells us how he pulled off the 2016 film.

Snigdha Sur

Renaissance Bangalore Race Course Anglo Indian Food Festival (Courtesy of Karen Martin)

Anglo-Indian Cuisine is More Than Colonial Food

For decades, it was dismissed as a relic of empire. Now, it’s getting a second life.

Bindu Gopal Rao

Murals to fight against garbages, Rajasthan, Sawai Madhopur, India on July 15, 2019 (Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

“Zero Civic Sense”: Are Indians Actually That F***ing Rude?

The internet thinks so. But the accusation is more loaded than you think.

Tulika Bose

Riz Ahmed and Guz Khan in 'Bait' (Amazon MGM)

Riz Ahmed on Why James Bond is Obviously South Asian

The actor talks ‘Bait’, why being Brown feels like being stuck in a spy thriller, and bringing his full, messy self to the screen.

Snigdha Sur

Yasmeen Ghauri walks the runway at the Chanelshow as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 91-92 in July 1991 (Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Why Yasmeen Ghauri Could Only Exist in the 1990s

There was a time when supermodels ruled. She defined the era, and left before the party was over.

Isha Banerjee

Did ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ Lose Its Edge?

The sequel smashed box office records on day one. But its cinematic payoff pales next to the first installment.

Snigdha Sur

John Kennedy, Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette stroll together near their TriBeCa loft after lunch at Bubby's (Lawrence Schwartzwald/Sygma via Getty Images)

JFK Jr. and India: An Untold Love Story

Years before the spotlight, the young Kennedy traveled through the country, searching for something few understood.

Sanchita Kedia

Rukhmabai, The Woman Who Said No

By refusing to comply with her child marriage, she exposed the violence embedded in tradition — and forced a legal reckoning that gripped colonial India.

Isha Banerjee