How We Get The Job Done: Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed, a young adult novelist, has created one of the buzziest books of 2019.
Lakshmi Gandhi
How We Get The Job Done: Le Tote's Rakesh Tondon
Le Tote's Rakesh Tondon's biggest competition is consumer behavior. How does he convince customers that renting clothes is better than buying them?
Meghna Rao
The Hindu Temple That Sits Quietly in Southern China
The temple recalls an interconnected, cosmopolitan past that challenges our beliefs today.
Huizhong Wu
Jingoism Isn't the Answer for South Asian Millennials
Ten South Asian millennials, living abroad and in their home countries, share how they see beyond national media.
Jever Mariwala
For South Asian Dance Teams, Does the Story End After College?
College South Asian dance teams can be intense, with students risking time, money, and physical health. But what happens after they graduate?
Where Frida Kahlo Meets Kalighat Pat
The Bengali art of portraiture, and the artist who makes them.
Paloma Ganguly
How We Get The Job Done: Leo Kalyan
How a musician found his talent in being himself.
Tahmina Begum
Photocopies of the Real Thing
Just as phool patti truck art became revered in Pakistan after an American anthropologist "discovered" it, Pakistani car decals are a new art form, waiting to be found.
Meher Ahmad
Progressive Indian Cuisine Finds a Home in Lower Manhattan
At Chef Sujan Sarkar's Baar Baar, 'progressive' Indian cuisine pairs flavors in combinations both familiar and new.
How We Get the Job Done: Brightland's Aishwarya Iyer
Aishwarya's premium olive oil is up against stiff competition from cheap, low-quality products, but she's not discouraged by that. "Live your biggest, boldest life," she says.
The Oscar-winning ‘Pad Man’ of India
A man’s pursuit to ensure menstrual hygiene for his wife sparked a revolution in the sanitary napkin industry, bringing affordable pads to 3.5 million women across India and many more across the world.
Puja Changoiwala
Learning About the Curry Within
Viral Facebook group 'Subtle Curry Traits' has become a platform for South Asians to commiserate and celebrate the comical side of their culture-straddling heritage.
Kat Lin
Can Netflix Save Indian Television?
Many young artists are pinning their hopes on Netflix to revitalize Indian TV. But are their hopes justified?
Michaela Stone Cross
How We Get the Job Done: Malai's Pooja Bavishi
The ice cream founder wants to convince you that Indian-inspired flavors are the frozen aisle's next big thing.
The Other Crazy Rich Asians in Preti Taneja's We That Are Young
How does Shakespeare's King Lear map onto modern India, where billionaires rule amid extreme inequality?
Sanjena Sathian
How We Get the Job Done: The Buttermilk Company's Mitra Raman
Mitra Raman wants to bring South Asian cooking hacks to the world through products like instant poha, upma, and khichdi — just add water.
Fighting to Make India's Cinemas Disability-Friendly
Though a national legislation requires businesses to be disability-friendly, few have complied ahead of its July deadline.
Siddhant Adlakha
Re-Examining Freddie Mercury
What led to the erasure of Farrokh Bulsara's Brownness?
Fariha Róisín
From Beauty to Fashion: Nykaa Does it All
How much of its beauty playbook can Nykaa follow as it builds its fashion vertical? And what must it create anew?
Snigdha Sur
How We Get the Job Done: Kolkata Chai Co's Ayan Sanyal
Co-founder Ayan Sanyal has a plan to take the classically South Asian drink mainstream. Can he beat out the competition?