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Come along with me to look at some of the OLDEST newspaper archives in Pakistan in this beautiful library 📚…

Read banned books! Kashmir faces more media blackouts and censorship than almost anywhere else in the world.…

From romanticized “exotic” settings to distorted depictions of cultures and peoples, we’ll uncover the…

Maybe Pakistan should also start investing in its own country 🥸🥲 Anyway, here’s your quick history lesson…

A former Anthropic researcher warned that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade.” It sounds like…

Before the MetroCard, New Yorkers used subway tokens. Before tokens, they used coins. And now even the…

Ever wonder why NYC subway lines aren’t alphabetical, or why completely different trains share the same…

What does faith have to do with housing justice? I joined an interfaith canvass with the Mayor’s Office of…

Chak De! India gave us a Muslim protagonist who loved his country and his religion at the same time, even…

When the United States annexed the Philippines in 1898, it brought roughly half a million Muslims under…

The Saami Brothers have been intentional about making qawwali accessible beyond traditional spaces, both by…

New York, we’re coming your way 🎬 Join us this Saturday, August 29 for a special screening of Hanging By a…

The printing press changed how people in South Asia imagined politics itself. Under British colonial rule…

Rida Ali on navigating online hate, echo chambers, and critical thinking at the Inaugural Stanford Indo-Pak…

A lesser-known chapter of Muslim American history: In the early 1900s, Punjabi migration to California…

Sports has a way of building community and we saw that all summer long. However, this sports-community…

We hosted our first ever Substack discussion circle yesterday led by @rozanawithrida on the role of the…

The stories we grow up with don’t come from nowhere. The Jungle Book was shaped by Rudyard Kipling’s India…

Happy Independence Day to the countries and people who fought for liberation from the evils of colonialism.…

Today, as India and Pakistan mark Independence Day, it’s worth asking: what did the people shaping these new…

Partition was negotiated not only through formal meetings, but also through private conversations and…

What do South Asian architecture and Zohran Mamdani’s new scaffolding initiative have in common? Both raise…

From Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, Nepal and India, Gen Z is reshaping political movements across South Asia. But…