Image by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/Getty Images A sentiment that many British Asians can relate to is that there’s no other place like your home country. Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has expressed a feeling joy about returning to India after three long years. In an Instagram story, Chopra shared a picture of the boarding pass of her […]
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Image by globalvillagespace.com Ram Setu, starring Akshay Kumar, and Thank God, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Ajay Devgn, were two brand-new Bollywood films that released in theatres on Diwali. However, they have faced stiff competition in the UK from of The Legend of Maula Jatt, a Pakistani film that has received massive acclaim worldwide. The film, starring
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Image by Kate Green/Getty Images Shehan Karunatilaka, a Sri Lankan author, has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida. Praised by the judges as for the “scope and the skill, the daring, the audacity and hilarity”, the honour has made the 47-year-old author only the second Sri
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Image by WaterAid/Oliver Dixon Last week WaterAid, a charity that works to provide clean water and decent toilets in several deprived parts of South Asia, Africa and South America as well as pushes the policy makers to change laws, held Art of Change, a secret auction in partnership with British Art Fair. It featured climate-themed
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Image by Netflix Jogi, a film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, best known for films like Tiger Zinda Hai, Sultan and Bharat, released on Netflix last week and has been a trending topic since. As more people watch the movie, it became clear that a topic as controversial as the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was handled
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Image by News18 Film director SS Rajamouli, known for blockbusters – Baahubali: The Beginning and Baahubali: The Conclusion and RRR, has gained worldwide critical acclaim for the latter. Starring South Indian cinema superstars Jr NTR and Ram Charan as revolutionaries Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitaraman respectively, RRR is set in the 1920s when India was
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Image by The Witness YouTube Channel A surprise family party to celebrate his 70th birthday sparked the idea of a memoir in which UK-based Ram Gidoomal charts his journey from being an Indian migrant to a successful entrepreneur “My Silk Road: The Adventures and Struggles of a British Asian Refugee” has been published by Pippa
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Image by John Phillips/Getty Images British Asian journalist and broadcaster Amol Rajan was announced as the host of BBC’s quiz programme University Challenge starting autumn of 2023. The Kolkata-born cricket enthusiast will succeed Jeremy Paxman who has been its quizmaster since the show was revived by the corporation in 1994. Rajan, 39, was appointed as
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Osman Yousefzada’s first intervention (Image by The British Council/PA) A multidisciplinary artist has teamed up with renowned British institutions to celebrate his family’s Pakistani roots and mark South Asian Heritage Month. Osman Yousefzada has been working with the British Council and the V&A for the exhibit – What is Seen and What is Not –
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Image by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP The New Jersey man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie told the New York Post in an interview published Wednesday that he was “surprised” the author had survived the attack. “When I heard he survived, I was surprised, I guess,” Hadi Matar, 24, told the tabloid, which said they held a video
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