Music
Where no desi band had played
He plays the Diwali festivals and the Indian food festivals too. What Shivam Shankar counts as the milestone is the small Belgian rooms that had never booked a band like his.
Shivam Shankar · Belgium
Udaan
Stories that took flight.
Invited profiles of Indian-origin people building something far from home — a band, a business, a dance school. We approach them, they tell it in their own words, and nothing goes live until they approve every line.
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Music
The Indian voice resonating in Belgium
A classroom in Kerala worked it out when Anna Jacob was eleven. It took Antwerp before she believed them.
Anna Jacob · Belgium
Food & Drink
Two and a half years of test batches
By day Anirudh Bobbili develops drinks for one of the largest companies on earth. The one he actually owns took two and a half years of weekends in a house in Tervuren.
Anirudh Bobbili · Belgium
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