24 h. ago Daytimers: Alterations review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

(Relentless Records)The UK collective have been reimagining south Asian music since 2020, and their new compilation splices junglism and Afro-house onto gems in Sony India’s catalogueSince their formation in 2020, the Daytimers collective have been trying to establish a new imagining of British south-Asian music. Taking their name from the daytime parties held by second-generation immigrants in the late 80s and 90s, Daytimers have spent the past five years throwing raucous parties of their own, with residents such as Yung Singh, Rohan Rakhit and Mahnoor mixing everything from jungle and Bollywood vocals with dubstep, grime instrumentals and Punjabi folk for a new generation born and raised in the UK.Following in the footsteps of their Asian underground forebears such as Nitin Sawhney and Talvin Singh, who mixed the sounds of 90s Britain with the south-Asian music they grew up listening to, Daytimers’ latest compilation has 13 south-Asian producers remixing Bollywood hits from the So...

Politics

44 h. ago Rahul Jacob: A political shadow lengthens over London’s South Asian summer | Mint

Rahul Jacob: A political shadow lengthens over London’s South Asian summer | Mint  Mint

Politics

44 h. ago Rahul Jacob: A political shadow lengthens over London’s South Asian summer

Rahul Jacob: A political shadow lengthens over London’s South Asian summer  Mint

Politics

45 h. ago NHS Lanarkshire launches videos aimed at increasing smear tests uptake

They include messages about cervical screening for the whole population - and specifically for Lanarkshire’s South Asian communities.

Politics

48 h. ago Who is Rachel Reeves, Britain’s first female chancellor in tears during PMQs

Rachel Reeves ‘is going nowhere’ after she was seen in tears during PMQs

Politics

3 d. ago Full list of TRNSMT 2025 food vendors from boujee burgers to South Asian street food

Festival-goers will be treated to amazing food, a fantastic atmosphere, and even better grub this year

Politics

4 d. ago TAHIRA ALI: 'Fast fashion is selling Desi clothing without acknowledging our culture'

As Western society continues to colonise South Asian identity by remarketing its textiles for fast-fashion brands like Shein and OhPolly, Tahira Ali explores the reasons why her community have had enough

Culture

4 d. ago I do not need a £100 hairbrush. So why have I spent so long fantasising about one?

I think it’s my way of avoiding my feelings – and that whatever they are, I’d be better off facing up to themI recently found myself fantasising about buying a hairbrush that costs more than £100. It is a very beautiful hairbrush: it comes in a choice of seductive colours and it is fashioned from the keratin-rich fibres of south-east Asian boar and from biodegradable cellulose acetate (entirely free of petrochemicals). It was advertised to me on social media and I later sought it out, Googling it again and again, admiring photos of it from different angles and imagining the reassuring weight of its handle in my hand. If ever there were a hairbrush that could help me build a better life, I thought, this surely would be it.How disturbingly close I came to buying this hairbrush I really cannot say. However, I can tell you when I knew that it was never going to happen. It was just now, when I realised with shock, after months of Googling and ogling, that I don’t use a hairbrush. I haven...

Economics

8 d. ago Senior member of Anas Sarwar's shadow cabinet 'opposed' to Labour welfare cuts bill

EXCLUSIVE: A senior party figure said Duncan-Glancy is angry about the cuts being proposed.

Economics

2 w. ago ‘Nobody makes a record like that for the money’: how Gang of Four made Entertainment!

‘There was tension with the National Front and swastikas on walls. So I’m proud the album is an outsider classic – but feel depressed these songs are still relevant’I grew up in a really boring village in Kent, so moving to Leeds as a student was thrilling. It was an A-list place to see gigs. On the other hand, the buildings were as black as soot, the Yorkshire Ripper was around and you could feel the tension between the National Front and the south Asian community. I saw swastikas on walls and on an anti-NF march I was hit with a truncheon by a mounted police officer. So I gradually came up with the modest ambition to change the world. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Vietnam risks being the trade war’s biggest loser. Does it have a plan B?

The south-east Asian country benefited hugely from US-China tensions, but the Trump tariffs strike at the heart of its economy

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