Doing her own thing

Shifani Reffai has done a lot of different things. But she’s done them all her way.

- IMAN SALEEM

Shifani Reffai loves Beyoncé. Her cat, who is small and ginger and stares at me suspiciously, is called Meyoncé. And while doing her Masters in English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, she did a term paper on the singer’s 2016 album, Lemonade — “Just writing that was like, this is why I came here