Bollywood’s Hot Boys and Girls
How six-packs became a religion in the world’s largest film industry.
Michaela Stone Cross
Qasim Rashid’s Uphill Battle for State Senate
He’s running to be Virginia’s first Muslim American state senator. Death threats and Islamophobia can’t keep him down.
Shabnaj Chowdhury
Julie Sahni is Doing Just Fine
New York’s — if not the country’s — preeminent cooking teacher has eschewed fame for a simpler cause: making Indian food accessible without dumbing it down.
Priya Krishna
Why I Don’t Celebrate India Day
Kashmir may have become a union territory of India, but I will never celebrate India’s independence.
Bassam Shawl
The World’s Biggest India Day Parade
With a record number of Indians living in the U.S., Manhattan’s India Day Parade has plenty to celebrate — as well as its fair share of challenges.
Parth Vohra
The Promised Land
What happens when a country’s foundation is built with a fundamental flaw?
Meher Ahmad
In Little Pakistan, Independence Day Reveals Tensions
Younger and older generations clash in Brooklyn as locals fight over who gets to run New York's biggest Pakistan Independence Day parade.
Jeevika Verma
Opinion: Not the Role Model We Need
It’s time we ask for more from Priyanka Chopra-Jonas.
Meghna Rao
Pakola, Pakistan’s Iconic Soda
How a neon-green soda helped build a national identity.
Rida Bilgrami
Making ‘Fraaaandship’ with Hatecopy
Artist Maria Qamar talks judgmental family, food, and politics leading up to her first solo New York exhibit.
Devanshi Patel
Designing for Love
Brown people love to date other brown people. How do you design for that?
Good Woman, Bad Woman
Pakistan’s Aurat March opened the floodgates to dialogue that continues to thrive five months later.
Dur e Aziz Amna
Jackson Heights Doesn't Need Amazon to Be Expensive
Amazon may not have come to Queens, but the borough’s once-bustling Jackson Heights is still suffering.
Sunil Gupta’s Portrait Party
The photographer revisits documenting gay love in India, and consent in photography.
Fariha Róisín
Alisha Rai is Making Brown Sex Sexy
The Indian American romance author is writing sexy, happy stories, and is ready to move on from tragic South Asian characters.
Diasporic Longing in Salman Toor’s East Village Iqbal Bano
Artist Salman Toor melds longing, desire, and a space for queer resistance in a small apartment in the East Village, as an ode to ghazal singer Iqbal Bano.
Noor Asif
In Manhattan’s Curry Row, Innovate or Die
From bohemian to Instagrammable, South Asian vendors in Curry Row in the East Village must change to fit with the times — or fail.
India’s Strange Relationship With Hitler
For decades, Mein Kampf has remained a bestseller in India. But that doesn’t necessarily mean what you think.
Making Cricket Happen in America
Cricket could have become as popular as baseball, but it didn’t. With $1 billion in funding and a framework to go viral, cricket may soon be the next big thing in the U.S.
In the East Village, Madina Masjid Stands Still
In an ever-evolving neighborhood, the Bangladeshi-founded mosque has remained a constant.