According to the Poetry Foundation, Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi, India in 1949. He grew up in Kashmir, the son of a distinguished and highly educated family in Srinagar. He attended...
During pregnancy, your body is continually changing, which means that your usual style might not work for you anymore. Many women take this time to experiment with their style; they try to venture a...
Keaton Henson, 30, is an English musician, poet, visual artist, and all-time supplier of sweet, sweet pain. His work quietly sings the thoughts we have suppressed for generations. He serenades love and destruction equally,...
Whether we choose to believe it or not, our genders play a definitive role in our positions in society and how we are treated by it. Our genders determine our roles as participants in...
The first step towards change is recognizing the issue at hand. For the longest time, we have lived in our privileged shells of power and indulged in ludicrous expressions of personal loss. News and...
Oscar Wilde called the artistic existence “one long, lovely suicide”. The painter Francois Bacon once said that the feelings of unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feelings of contentment, because it...
Jake Parker, an artist, created the Inktober challenge in 2009. As the name suggests, the challenge runs through 31 days of October every year. The challenge started out with a traditional medium, that is...
At some point or the other, you must have heard about the Paris Fashion Week. The show takes place twice a year and is attended by publicists, journalists, editors, stylists, models and many many...
Sufjan Stevens is a sing-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from New York City. His debut album ‘A Sun Came’ was released in 1999, under Asthmatic Kitty, which continues to host some of his recent music, too....
#MeToo is a movement that helps us call out harassers in solidarity. Instead of being a one-off siren against a powerful oppressor, the movement has empowered victims enough to minimalize, and perhaps even destroy...
