by Mallik Thatipalli | Feb 24, 2026
(February 24, 2026) For nearly a decade, Neelima Penumarthy has been quietly shaping how global audiences understand India, not through classrooms or textbooks, but through voice, memory, and performance. The Hyderabad-born storyteller and educator founded StoryHour...
by Amrita Priya | Oct 19, 2025
(October 19, 2025) Although Indo-Trinidadians formed a large community as descendants of indentured labourers who arrived in the Caribbean in 1845 from India, their cultural voice on Trinidad’s national stage remained subdued. It wasn’t until 1986, with the birth of...
by Charu Thakur | Aug 25, 2025
(August 25, 2025) “Kudi football khedna chahndi hai?” — “The girl wants to play football?” Jess’s mother exclaims in Punjabi in the 2002 Gurinder Chadha directorial Bend It Like Beckham. For many South Asians abroad, that line struck a chord. It wasn’t...
by Charu Thakur | Aug 19, 2025
(August 19, 2025) For those who left India’s shores — by ship in the 19th century or by plane in the decades that followed — photographs were often the only way to hold on to what was left behind. Faded portraits tucked into suitcases, studio shots mailed across...
by Charu Thakur | Aug 15, 2025
(August 15, 2025) On a summer day in 1907, far from home, an unusual moment took place in Stuttgart, Germany. Bhikaji Cama, an Indian living abroad, walked onto the stage at an international socialist conference and unfurled a flag she called the flag of independent...
