Nishita Rao

Why do people protest? What prompts people to take to the streets? Why do we see a global epidemic of distrust of authority? What hope does protesting provide to people with no access to healthcare, sanitation, food, education or jobs? At what point does protest lead to massive movements that completely change the geography of the politics of the land? If you are curious about the rising dissent across India, specifically with the Cockroach Janta Party ( CJP) movement, please read on. A...

In 2025, the Queer Ecology Hanky Project was exhibited at the Tang Teaching Art Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. This is a travelling exhibit with its inception at the White Page Gallery in Minneapolis, MN (2019). Michael Warner, a literary critic once wrote that being queer means constantly challenging “the common understanding of what gender difference means, or what the state is for, or what 'health' entails ... or what a good relation to the planet's environment would...

Well, she was the inspiration behind your favorite drink! Now there are two competing claims to the invention. One from Chun Shui Tang in Taichung, Taiwan, where a product development manager dropped tapioca balls into an iced Assam Black Tea during a staff meeting, held in 1988. The competitor however, hails from Tainan, Taiwan, who is the owner of Hanlin Tea room, claiming to have been inspired by local tapioca white balls in 1986. While the latter called it Pearl Tea, the former called it...