Do you anglicize your beautiful Sanskrit name so that English speakers can pronounce it better or do you say all names with a British accent

We are constantly queried on our ‘actual’ ethnic origin, as just ‘British’ is not solely accepted as our identity.

Is there a place to call home? One where you fit in, accent, skin colour and all?

We often wear social masks to deal with the inner self-assurance that we desire. However, pretending to be someone else can become draining.

As a teacher of philosophy and religion, questioning is at the heart of everything I teach. Do we need laws to guide our morality?

We may never have had to face a physical border but we’re constantly tackling the invisible borders between our roots and routes.

This feeling of humiliation stemmed from the toxic views in our South Asian community that having a learning disability was taboo.

It is the patriarchal structure that is embedded in the South Asian culture in terms of how men should be and how women should be.

There are a million different versions of myself out there - yet are any of those versions the real me?

In our never-ending quests for self-knowledge, how we form our identities in response to our position in the world is essential to explore.

Your shame tends to stem from a belief somewhere inside you - a belief about the scope of your abilities

I didn’t seem to have any markers of Tamil-ness. I didn’t like Maths, I didn’t ‘sound’ Tamil (whatever that means), I didn’t watch Tamil ...