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Progressive Indian Cuisine Finds a Home in Lower Manhattan

At Chef Sujan Sarkar's Baar Baar, 'progressive' Indian cuisine pairs flavors in combinations both familiar and new.

How We Get the Job Done: Brightland's Aishwarya Iyer

Aishwarya's premium olive oil is up against stiff competition from cheap, low-quality products, but she's not discouraged by that. "Live your biggest, boldest life," she says.

The Oscar-winning ‘Pad Man’ of India

A man’s pursuit to ensure menstrual hygiene for his wife sparked a revolution in the sanitary napkin industry, bringing affordable pads to 3.5 million women across India and many more across the world.

Learning About the Curry Within

Viral Facebook group 'Subtle Curry Traits' has become a platform for South Asians to commiserate and celebrate the comical side of their culture-straddling heritage.

Can Netflix Save Indian Television?

Many young artists are pinning their hopes on Netflix to revitalize Indian TV. But are their hopes justified?

How We Get the Job Done: Malai's Pooja Bavishi

The ice cream founder wants to convince you that Indian-inspired flavors are the frozen aisle's next big thing.

The Other Crazy Rich Asians in Preti Taneja's We That Are Young

How does Shakespeare's King Lear map onto modern India, where billionaires rule amid extreme inequality?

How We Get the Job Done: The Buttermilk Company's Mitra Raman

Mitra Raman wants to bring South Asian cooking hacks to the world through products like instant poha, upma, and khichdi — just add water.

Fighting to Make India's Cinemas Disability-Friendly

Though a national legislation requires businesses to be disability-friendly, few have complied ahead of its July deadline.

Re-Examining Freddie Mercury

What led to the erasure of Farrokh Bulsara's Brownness?

From Beauty to Fashion: Nykaa Does it All

How much of its beauty playbook can Nykaa follow as it builds its fashion vertical? And what must it create anew?

Tea Can Be Cool: Re-envisioning Chai

Fine dining veteran Christopher Bunet brings fine dining principles (experimentation, precision, presentation) to chai at The Hideout Chai Bar in the Lower East Side.

How We Get the Job Done: Kolkata Chai Co's Ayan Sanyal

Co-founder Ayan Sanyal has a plan to take the classically South Asian drink mainstream. Can he beat out the competition?

The Audacity of Hari Kondabolu

Who gave the Queens native permission to ruin the joke and make things uncomfortable? And how do we create more of him?

The Ghostbusters of Indian Prisons

As more inmates raise alarms of haunted barracks and spirits in Indian prisons, authorities are now compelled to debunk superstitions with science and reason.

‘Mississippi Masala’: To the Wisdom of the In-Between

The iconic Mira Nair film is as much about the love between Demetrius and Mina, as it is about the love between Jay and Uganda.

The Spitting Lyrics of ‘Gully Boy’

What a refreshing change, to see Bollywood lean on hip hop — and vice versa — in a way that feels so authentically Indian.

Keep the Gullies Grooving

With Bollywood at its doorstep, 2019 could be Indian hip hop’s biggest year yet. But it could also be its last.