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Being unique has never been a challenge for Karishma Leckraz, or ‘Krishy,’ a British-born Indo-Mauritian content creator and eczema awareness activist. Understanding the strength of her individuality was a process,…
Music has always been second nature to Pritt. When she was two years old, her mum — a drama and Tamil teacher — first spotted her natural ability to perform.…
Back when MESA first launched in March 2020, we virtually spoke to Italian-Syrian designer Efrem Damiani about the birth of their fashion brand Efetishism. Almost two years later, we met…
As the tired saying goes, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest feature film, “The Man Who Sold His Skin” takes this trope and…
Coming of age stories broadly follow the same exhausted arc: protagonists discovering themselves through sex and narcotics, neatly slotted into the Lynx or Impulse wearing teenage years, before arriving at…
When Baghdad Central aired at the start of this year, Iraqi viewers across the globe tuned in with hopes of seeing their culture and motherland represented on screen. Instead, the…
If lockdown has proved anything, it’s that so much creativity is still possible in a virtual space, if you put your mind to it. The URL way of living has…
“Dearly beloved. Look how the distances have closed. I am here, I am here, I am here.” The opening lines for Veer-Zaara’s iconic “Main Yahaan Hoon” are enough to sweep…
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