Asiya Islam is a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge where she is doing a PhD in Sociology. Her research explores the formations of class and gender in urban India. Follow her on twitter @asiyaislam.
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Published in: openIndiaThe myth of the Indian ‘New Middle Class’Families in Modi’s India are caught in a spiral of working class conditions in jobs pretending to be middle class,...
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Published in: 50.50Táhirih unveiled: poet, theologian and revolutionaryTáhirih – an important figure in Persian history – helps us imagine a more diverse feminism and a more progressive...
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Published in: openIndiaWhere do women belong in Indian cities?While men can be seen hanging around, women are expected to have a purpose for being outdoors. This question must be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRacism vs racial prejudice: on the normalisation of (un)conscious biasThere is a danger with the latest figures on racial prejudice in Britain that we understate the scope and nature of...