Books
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‘Brown Girl Like Me’ – Author and poet Jaspreet Kaur on her debut book addressed at Brown Women everywhere…(video)
With next week being UN International Women’s Day (March 8), we will be highlighting the work of Asian women all…
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How much of an Asian culture vulture, are you? Test your knowledge with our annual quiz (2021)…Answers
Here are the answers to our annual Quiz…How did you do? Are you an Asian culture vulture or just masquerading…
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Actor Nitin Ganatra, Theatre director Pravesh Kumar and founders of Bradford Literature Festival all given New Year’s Honours…
This year’s New Year’s Honours List has just been released… this story has been updated from the original and there…
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How much of an Asian culture vulture, are you? Test your knowledge with our annual quiz (2021)…
Ready, sitting comfortably…no cheating, please try to answer without looking up or using the internet but if you have to…
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Holiday reading for children – books with strong messages about cultural diversity and tackling subjects such as Colourism…
Entertain and educate – these books do both with beautiful illustrations and powerful tales… by Lubjana Matin-Scammell ‘Little Glow’ by…
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‘Hello Rainbow: Finding Happiness in Colour’ by Momtaz Begum-Hossain – new book to inject colour into your life…
Journalist and special acv presenter is a passionate colour advocate and launched a book today on the subject… don’t be…
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Bird Bites: ‘King Richard’; UK Asian Film Festival Mental health report launch; Japanese Cinema of the Self weekend; Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut, India and ‘Arctic Summer’
What’s caught our bird eyes this month… Unconscious bias surfaces in ‘King Richard’ press conference Serena Williams. Will Smith, Venus…
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‘Moth’ – debut novelist Melody Razak’s stunning work is a powerful addition to Partition memory…
On the day that the boundaries of Pakistan and India were first published in 1947, we review a novel directly…
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Manchester International Festival 2021: Zoe Iqbal, actor and poet on her part in ‘I love you too’ and reads ‘Happiness’ (video)
More than a hundred residents were involved in contributing reflections about love in a book which can now be purchased…
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Manchester International Festival 2021: Imtiaz Dharker on ‘Poet Slash Artist’ and her new artwork/poem ‘My Breath’ (video)
One of Britain’s best-loved poets spoke to us about her latest work which is part of the curated strand ‘Poet…
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