Surbhi Gupta
South Asia Editor at New Lines Magazine
Freelance Writer at Freelance
South Asia Editor @newlinesmag. Past: @ColumbiaJournMA, Features @IndianExpress, Print @ACJIndia. Delhi girl. SRKian. Viratian.
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2 months ago |
newlinesmag.com | Surbhi Gupta
On the night of Aug. 4, 2019, Khawar and Iqra were on one of their routine calls but were extremely scared. Rumors had been floating around in Kashmir that the Indian government would annul Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and that the act could result in a war. The article served as the basis for Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to the Union of India in 1947, and granted the region its special semiautonomous status. There were reasons to believe the rumors at that time.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
newlinesmag.com | Surbhi Gupta |Alec D'Angelo
The H-1B program that enables highly skilled immigration and has significantly benefited Indian Americans has caused controversy between Trump’s supporters and his advisers
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Sep 18, 2024 |
newlinesmag.com | Surbhi Gupta
A month after the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, the country continues to grapple with the realities of gender-based violence Whenever rape makes the news in India, one particularly horrific instance is brought up. In the winter of 2012, a 22-year-old woman was brutally raped on a bus by six men after a movie night with a friend. Her injuries were so gruesome that she died two weeks later and the details so gory that widespread protests were sparked across the country.
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Aug 28, 2024 |
newlinesmag.com | Surbhi Gupta
In 2008, the Malayalam writer Benny Daniel, known by the pen name Benyamin, published his first novel “Aadujeevitham.” Later translated into English as “Goat Days,” it punctured the image of the Gulf Dream for many in southern India. Starting in the 1970s, the southern Indian state of Kerala experienced a “Gulf boom” as people migrated to the region en masse in search of work.
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Jun 26, 2024 |
newlinesmag.com | Surbhi Gupta
In 2012, when the Indian actor Sridevi, a glamorous star of the 1980s and ’90s, decided to play the role of a housewife in her comeback film “English Vinglish,” it surprised audiences and the industry alike. It wasn’t that they had not seen a housewife in a film before, but the characters were either obedient, devoted wives or ailing but tender mothers — mere supporting characters on the peripheries.
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RT @shoaibm37: Pakistan Struggles to Maintain Strategic Relevance - New Lines Magazine https://t.co/XwyZsyrVpN
Since the fall of Kabul, #Pakistan has struggled to maintain its strategic relevance, and its (rather desperate) attempts to reengage with the United States have been largely unsuccessful. @waleed_nasirm writes for @newlinesmag https://t.co/ODShyEm9ef
RT @hxhassan: Since the fall of Kabul, Pakistan has struggled to maintain its strategic relevance, and its attempts to reengage with the Un…
