Mohammed Jamal makes homemade brandy in 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The pressure cooker is filled with fermented melons, bananas or grapes. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

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Drinking can cost you your life. Yet many are risking it all to preserve the ancient tradition that has survived religion, war, and bans.

The Secret Life of Afghan Wine

Ramit Sethi and Cassandra Sethi wedding (Cassie Valente Photography)

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More couples in the diaspora are signing premarital agreements — and rethinking love, duty, and divorce.

The South Asians Adding Prenups to Their Wedding Checklist

Utah Governor Huntsman holds Indian child Asha Bharati as his wife Maryand their adopted Chinese child Gracie Mei look on at The Matruchhaya Orphanage in Nadiad, Gujarat, December 19, 2006 (SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)


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For decades, thousands from the subcontinent were adopted abroad, mostly by white families. Why have they been forgotten?

The Missing Stories of South Asian Adoption

A woman walks past an art work of a Durga Puja pandal with a theme on menstruation, in Kolkata on October 8, 2023 (DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP) (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP via Getty Images)

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