In Your Own Voices

In Your Own Voices (Homegrown Voices)

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A-Year-In-Review: The Homegrown Editorial Team Picks Their Favourite Stories Of 2025

19 Dec 2025

8 min read

KALA, a video conceptualised by GOGA and Killachoc, captures this deeply ingrained shame and discrimination associated with dark skin in our culture.

What 'KALA' Shows Us About the Inherited Shame Of Skin Colour In Indian Society

19 Dec 2025

3 min read

Here are the spots our team discovered in their respective cities in 2025 that we think you should check out.

Homegrown Writers Talk About The Places They Discovered In Their Cities & Towns In 2025

19 Dec 2025

7 min read

As platforms collapse and institutions falter, I believe the future of culture lies in offline, intimate, community-focused experiences.

A Homegrown Culture Wishlist: 6 Things We Want To See More In 2026

12 Dec 2025

5 min read

To post a picture with your boyfriend is to risk being called attention-seeking; to hide him is to risk being called secretive. Either way, you lose.

The Secret Lives Of Indian Girlfriends

Anahita Ahluwalia

13 Nov 2025

4 min read

Mr. Mamdani — the son of an Indian mother and a Ugandan-Indian father — eating biryani with, wait for it, his hands. No spoon, no fork — just diving into the rice hand-first.

How The Longest Colonial Hangover Ever Made Hand-Eating ‘Uncivilised’

12 Nov 2025

3 min read

There are some actors who shine without the limelight, the ones who embolden films by their mere presence — and Shah was one of them.

Satish Shah: The Legacy Of India’s Unassuming, Homegrown King Of Comedy

30 Oct 2025

3 min read

A lot, if not most, of my early opinions on family and marriage were based on my parents’ divorce.

5 Indians Tell Us How Their Parents' Separation Shaped Their Own Perceptions Of Love

23 Oct 2025

6 min read

Ideas of obedience and deference are embedded within India’s socio-cultural fabric.

Against Obedience: Power Distance & The Case For Cultural Defiance In India

18 Sep 2025

4 min read

The idea of permanent sheltering might seem compassionate at first glance. Yet for free-living dogs, confinement is a cruel fate.

The Supreme Court's Latest Directive Is Effectively A Death Warrant For New Delhi's Stray Dogs: Here's Why

13 Aug 2025

3 min read

It’s easy to dismiss this as a sign of moral decay, but we'd rather ask what people are looking for, and why they aren’t finding it within conventional marriages.

According To Ashley Madison, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, Is India’s Non-Monogamy Hotspot

Anahita Ahluwalia

06 Aug 2025

2 min read

In the midst of all this anchorage, identity, for Faris, was never a walk in the park.

Between Two Homelands: India, Palestine, & I

30 Jul 2025

5 min read

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