May 2023

Ira Mukhoty is an Indian writer who writes about forgotten heroines of Indian history.Two of her books—Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History and Daughters of the Sun: Empresses,…

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9 min

Current affairs
Identity

Solidarity: A Love Letter to Diasporic Asians in Russia, Central Asia, and Beyond

May 11, 2023

I was nineteen years old when I left the US to study for the first time. I spent five weeks on a summer exchange program at the International University in…

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14 min

Contemporary art
Women

A Woman with a Camera in Uzbekistan: Umida Akhmedova about Herself

May 3, 2023

The most famous woman with a camera in Central Asia, Umida Akhmedova—a photographer and the author of significant documentary works—talks about herself, her creative and personal path, self-realization in the…

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A Woman with a Camera in Uzbekistan: Umida Akhmedova about Herself

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