India

The Indian women learning to fight for survival
Activism

The Indian women learning to fight for survival

Empowering through education — With pepper spray and self-defence classes, Indian women are preparing to fight back against their attackers. Huck meets the woman leading the charge.

Written by: Michael Segalov

Video: Meet Raja the King, India’s very own Elvis
Culture

Video: Meet Raja the King, India’s very own Elvis

The Pelvis of Kharagpur — Raja Danapat is India's self-proclaimed “twin brother” of Elvis. Now 75, he lives his life following the guiding light of the late Elvis Presley.

Written by: Alex King

Richard Prince to Calcutta: The weird relationship between Instagram and the art gallery
Culture

Richard Prince to Calcutta: The weird relationship between Instagram and the art gallery

A new exhibition and a new lawsuit — The first Instagram art show in Calcutta opened last week, and across the world Richard Prince was sued for photos he used at a show in New York. Increased access to images means more possibilities for art, but it's not necessarily for the better.

Nupur Joshi Thanks is waking up India to the indie publishing revolution
Culture

Nupur Joshi Thanks is waking up India to the indie publishing revolution

The Magazine Evangelist — Paper Planes Founder Nupur Joshi Thanks is reviving print by introducing India to the joys of boutique magazines.

Written by: Rob Boffard

How skateboarding is helping to revitalise a village in rural India
Skate

How skateboarding is helping to revitalise a village in rural India

Skating, educating and building community — Author, futurist and community activist Ulrike Reinhard founded Janwaar Castle to reinvigorate a rural village through skateboarding.

Written by: Alex King

How growing up in a Calcutta brothel gave photographer Avijit Halder a unique way of seeing the world
Culture

How growing up in a Calcutta brothel gave photographer Avijit Halder a unique way of seeing the world

The Red Light Kid — Photography gave Avijit Halder a way out, but it was an unlikely friendship with Academy Award winner Zana Briski that set fire to his homegrown vision.

Written by: Avijit Halder

The artists turning acts of pollution into works of art
Art

The artists turning acts of pollution into works of art

Ice, sewage and the Beijing smog creatively reimagined — Angered by the environmental chaos on their doorsteps, artists turn to their craft to vent their frustrations.

Written by: Adam White

Meet Ishita Malaviya, India's first female surfer
Surf

Meet Ishita Malaviya, India's first female surfer

Waves of change — Pioneering Indian surfer Ishita Malaviya is one in a billion. And now her childhood constraints are a thing of the past.

Written by: Jack Kenyon

Broken Fingaz’ psychedelic graffiti pilgrimage from Mumbai to Los Angeles
Art

Broken Fingaz’ psychedelic graffiti pilgrimage from Mumbai to Los Angeles

Journey Galactiko — Underground graffiti collective Broken Fingaz spring up in LA for a mesmerising show that takes on sex, death, Indian spirituality and capitalist advertising.

Written by: Alex King

Scenes from inside Indian coffee houses, the greasy spoons of South Asia
Photography

Scenes from inside Indian coffee houses, the greasy spoons of South Asia

Palaces of Memory — Photographer Stuart Freedman documents the decline Indian coffee houses – hotbeds of counterculture – in new book Palaces of Memory.

Written by: Michael Fordham

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