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Herpreet Kaur Grewal

Herpreet Kaur Grewal has been a journalist in the UK for three and a half years, starting her career at the Times and then freelancing for a broad section of publications including the Guardian, the Observer, Eastern Eye and the Big Issue. She specialises in current affairs, social issues and music.

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'Jane Eyre,' Charlotte Bronte

“Although countless books with female leads now exist, there are few contenders to Jane Eyre.”

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Herpreet Kaur Grewal explains the verbal brawling and lightning wit of Punjabi “kapkhana”

The silent wounds of Gujarat

A new report highlights a neglected aspect of the massacre of Muslims in India’s western state of Gujarat in 2002: brutal sexual violence against women.