Anoushka Agrawal

It would be too much to ask that certain events in India not infuriate me — but all I want is to get live, accurate and relevant updates with the same frequency and urgency as I get them in India.

YBN Cordae makes his listeners his friends before making them his audience, and that’s what made this performance particularly special.

The reputation Lilly Singh has built for herself is as someone shattering all conventions of the media industry — as a performer of color that broke an internet that was primarily white.

Anna Mwalagho used the classic comedic device of repetition to hook this same sentence into multiple jokes in her one-woman show.

“Pain and Glory” transcends genres and transcends topics. It brings to light just how diverse a director Almodóvar is. 

I find that I deeply resonate with a thought from “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” lead Rachel Brosnahan: She is tired of hearing the word “strong” as an adjective to describe female characters. 

“Gully Boy” is an important, beautiful story, but its blaring use of brown face yields to the popular idea that the protagonist Murad and all his friends must be darker-skinned because they are from a slum. 

Free speech in India is, to put it mildly, restricted. I used to think that being a journalist in India was the most terrifying job to do.

The weekend of the competition was exhausting, and involved plenty of rehearsal and very little sleep. Before we knew it, my teammates and I were dolled up and at the performance venue, nervous and excited.

He doesn’t care that his audience most definitely consists of non-Indians; he assumes, right from the beginning, that his audience understands — which is precisely where “Patriot Act” finds its strength.