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Slopology: A field guide to the creatures of the content swamp
Every ecosystem eventually breeds an invasive species, and the internet's chosen vermin is AI slop. It's a content-form so prolific it now has its...
Cutting Chai with Parvyn Kaur Singh
Cutting Chai with Lakshmi Ganapathy is a monthly series of bite-sized interviews with prominent South Asians showcasing their career and personality and celebrating their South...
Rakhi, rewritten: New ways to tie the bond
modern Rakhi traditions
I began this week thinking about Rakhi – as I always do, about a week before the actual day.
In the early days,...
Nadeem Ahmed and the unfinished business of Multicultural Australia
Indians in Sydney founder Nadeem Ahmed is clearly a man who wants to do the right thing. The difficulty, listening to him talk about...





