SHOE LEATHER PODCAST: SEASON FOUR
May 2023
Shoe Leather is an investigative podcast that digs up stories from New York’s past, to find out how yesterday’s news affects us today.
This season we go back to the summer of 1988, to the Tompkins Square Park Riot. How anarchists, activists, squatters and punks struggled for power over the Lower East Side. And, how a police riot changed everything.
On the night of August 6th, 1988 a police riot erupted in NYC’s Tompkins Square Park – the heartland of punk music, anarchy and activism in the Lower East Side. The riot ended when protesters broke through the lobby of the Christodora House. Our episode covers how one building became the symbol of class warfare in the 80s.
Shoe Leather Season 4 received over 6800 downloads in its first month of release.
EXHUMED: Experiments in Memory
April 2023
“Exhumed: Experiments in Memory” is published in collaboration with Columbia Journalism School’s Delacorte Review. It’s a collection of 17 stories, each beginning with a photograph. I am a first time published author.
Each writer selected a photograph that spoke to them and then set out to discover the story behind that frozen moment. Each reflects a narrative that a writer felt compelled to convey. And it is this need that readers will find appealing – so much so that it may inspire them to seek out their own photographs and stories.
“Exhumed” exemplifies the impact of narrative nonfiction. Reporting propels it, just as imagination propels most enduring fiction.
My story is titled “Letting Kishan Go”. I share tragic the loss of my brother, beginning with my own memories – of those last days as well as memories that extended back weeks, months and years.
It is available to purchase on Amazon.
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
September 2021- May 2022
For my academic dissertation, I researched the depiction of the South Asian community during the COVID-19 pandemic by UK partisan media, via content analysis, exploring social and economic factors, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of framing an ethnic minority group during a public health calamity.
I used SPSS to identify the partisan media frames used during the pandemic, which manifested into the media’s perception of framing the South Asian community.
A series of chi-square tests were used to examine the sources utilised by the partisan media during the COVID-19 outbreak in framing the South Asian community, by investigating which individuals were quoted an if they employ the same frameworks.
The academic paper is available on request.
DUNYĀ MAGAZINE – EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
September 2021- May 2022
Dunyā magazine aims to celebrate Britain’s cultural diversity, by reconnecting our readers with their heritage and highlighting cultural connections. We report on communities across Britain, exploring their connections through food, history, identity, and cultural events.
In this issue, we investigate the lasting impact of the expulsion from Uganda, religiosity in children of migrants and the problems of being a foreign-born business owner after Brexit.
This was all part of our magazine module at City, University of London, where we start the process in October working on a pitch, then work on our pieces and create the InDesign layouts for all of the pages over the course of 6 months, whilst simultaneously working on the website.
Working alongside five other members, this assignment achieved 92/100, a high first grade.