Latest stories

We’ve published over 1,650 stories at The Juggernaut diving into South Asian culture, politics, history, profiles, business, and tech. Here are all of our stories for you to peruse, with the most recent first.

Why I Don’t Celebrate India Day

Kashmir may have become a union territory of India, but I will never celebrate India’s independence.

Bassam Shawl

The India Day Parade 2018. (Federation of India Associations)

The World’s Biggest India Day Parade

With a record number of Indians living in the U.S., Manhattan’s India Day Parade has plenty to celebrate — as well as its fair share of challenges.

Parth Vohra

Overcrowded refugee trains at Ambala Station in Punjab during partition. (Wikimedia)

The Promised Land

What happens when a country’s foundation is built with a fundamental flaw?

Meher Ahmad

Little Pakistan runs along Coney Island Ave in Brooklyn. (Jeevika Verma)

In Little Pakistan, Independence Day Reveals Tensions

Younger and older generations clash in Brooklyn as locals fight over who gets to run New York's biggest Pakistan Independence Day parade.

Jeevika Verma

Opinion: Not the Role Model We Need

It’s time we ask for more from Priyanka Chopra-Jonas.

Meghna Rao

Pakola, Pakistan’s Iconic Soda

How a neon-green soda helped build a national identity.

Rida Bilgrami

Maria Qamar aka hatecopy (hatecopy website)

Making ‘Fraaaandship’ with Hatecopy

Artist Maria Qamar talks judgmental family, food, and politics leading up to her first solo New York exhibit.

Devanshi Patel

Prince Salim (the future Jahangir) and his legendary illicit love, the dancing girl Anarkali (1940's)

Designing for Love

Brown people love to date other brown people. How do you design for that?

Meghna Rao

A poster for Aurat March. (Shehzil Malik)

Good Woman, Bad Woman

Pakistan’s Aurat March opened the floodgates to dialogue that continues to thrive five months later.

Dur e Aziz Amna

A henna shop in Jackson Heights. Council member Constantinides said that the neighborhood will not undergo gentrification. "We are committed as a community to keeping this is a fair, affordable place for everyone." (Parth Vohra)

Jackson Heights Doesn't Need Amazon to Be Expensive

Amazon may not have come to Queens, but the borough’s once-bustling Jackson Heights is still suffering.

Parth Vohra

Sunil Gupta’s Portrait Party

The photographer revisits documenting gay love in India, and consent in photography.

Fariha Róisín

Alisha Rai's "Hate to Want You: Forbidden Hearts #1," released in 2017, is her most popular novel on Amazon. (Harper Collins)

Alisha Rai is Making Brown Sex Sexy

The Indian American romance author is writing sexy, happy stories, and is ready to move on from tragic South Asian characters.

Shabnaj Chowdhury

Diasporic Longing in Salman Toor’s East Village Iqbal Bano

Artist Salman Toor melds longing, desire, and a space for queer resistance in a small apartment in the East Village, as an ode to ghazal singer Iqbal Bano.

Noor Asif

In Manhattan’s Curry Row, Innovate or Die

From bohemian to Instagrammable, South Asian vendors in Curry Row in the East Village must change to fit with the times — or fail.

Meghna Rao

Hitler Nadar says his father named him after a "great king." (Michaela Stone Cross)

India’s Strange Relationship With Hitler

For decades, Mein Kampf has remained a bestseller in India. But that doesn’t necessarily mean what you think.

Michaela Stone Cross

The U.S. women's cricket team celebrates after a 3-0 victory against Canada in a T20 series in May that helped seal a spot in the ICC T20 Global Qualifiers, to be held in Scotland next month. (USA Cricket)

Making Cricket Happen in America

Cricket could have become as popular as baseball, but it didn’t. With $1 billion in funding and a framework to go viral, cricket may soon be the next big thing in the U.S.

Parth Vohra