Unveiled: Why I wear the headscarf

Over the years, I’ve heard the perfectly respectful 'headscarf', the culturally sensitive 'hijab', the slightly ominous 'veil', or my personal all-time favourite: the utterly bewildered 'head toga'...

Tea with Auntie: a poem

Dedicated to all the paan-chewing, advice-giving, haldi-supplying desi aunties out there...

Interviewing Shrabani Basu, author of ‘Victoria and Abdul’

'Victoria and Abdul', which has been adapted into a film starring Judi Dench, tells the true story of Queen Victoria’s friendship with an Indian servant, Abdul Karim. He became the queen's ‘munshi’, her teacher, teaching her Urdu and the Qur'an to the chagrin of her English staff. I contacted the author, Shrabani Basu, who kindly agreed...