Am I a Champagne Socialist?
Do you uphold socialist ideals while enjoying an affluent and luxurious lifestyle? If so, then you are gauche caviar – or what British people call a ‘champagne socialist’. This term,…
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Do you uphold socialist ideals while enjoying an affluent and luxurious lifestyle? If so, then you are gauche caviar – or what British people call a ‘champagne socialist’. This term,…
I remember my first day of secondary school like it was yesterday. I was born in Peshawar, Pakistan and my family and I moved to the UK when I was…
At last, the storm had ended and there was a golden sky for Liverpool. The title was decided by an old enemy against a contemporary one. At the end of…
Framed by a socalled “Western” lens, India is often viewed as an exotic, faraway place – an image reinforced in Western classrooms, which rarely venture into discourse about Indian history…
With the #BlackLivesMatter movement breaking the internet and protests ongoing across the country, I have witnessed a somewhat performative activism taking over my social media feeds, from many who have…
I’ve reached an age where everyone I know is either married, engaged or searching for a partner. I fall into the ‘searching’ category. I don’t know when it was that…
Are you working twice as hard to get half as far more than usual? For those growing up with this narrative, this notion has only intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic.…
I had a line prepared for whenever someone asked me about my heritage. Whether it was in person, in my Instagram DMs, or on a dating app, it was always…