Last week, Modi repealed the three contentious farm laws that had sparked an over year-long protest in India. But what is the real motive behind the PM’s rare display of contrition?
Photographer Yuvan Kumar recounts documenting India’s curbside barbers last March, who were left fighting to survive in the face of a looming second lockdown and an impending calamity.
With India's healthcare system buckling under the immense pressure of the Coronavirus pandemic, volunteers and non-profits are having to plug gaps that neglect or seeming corruption are unable to.
From Russia to India and Hong Kong, we take a look at the zines which are carving out vital spaces of self-expression for queer people in countries where same-sex relationships still remain taboo.
Aperture‘s latest issue, featuring the work of photographers Tyler Mitchell Sara Knelman and more, pictures a world without inequality to show that other ways of living are possible.
As protests over a controversial new farming law in India spread to other cities across the world, those leading the demonstrations are keeping on the pressure.
Writer Sharan Dhaliwal remembers how a racist attack resulting in the death of an 18-year-old in Southall in 1976 sparked the area's first and biggest youth-led movement of anti-racism.
In the wake of a Bollywood song with a racist lyric about Beyoncé, South Asian youth are confronting society's colourist beliefs and the ingrained sense of anti-Blackness.
