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Divorce Is Not A Dirty Word
Despite actually being divorced, it's not a word I hear often. A whirlwind romance and dream wedding made way for two things: a caved-in...

Nandini Vadera
Mar 1, 20233 min read
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Rolling Away From Labels: Finding Freedom from Restrictive Labels through Rollerblading
For as long as I can remember I’ve been stuck floating in limbo, no sense of self or idea of how I fit into the world. I've always just...

Mathuza Senthivel
Mar 1, 20235 min read
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"What Would People Say?" - Movie Showcases A South Asian Girl's Struggles and Her Persistence
“What would people say?” - the most popular, and detested phrase that many South Asian young adults have heard at least once in their...

Urmi Hossain
Feb 9, 20235 min read
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My Period Is More Than Blood
I lost my period for years on and off, all to an eating disorder that consumed me. Its disappearance was simply another step to prove I...

Varsha Yajman
Sep 14, 20224 min read
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Desi Beauty and NFTs: Urban Desi Women Creates Beautiful NFTs that Give Back
Urban Desi Women, an NFT project that focuses on supporting and empowering women globally, displays a unique and diverse collection of...

Presilla Sadhoe
Aug 30, 20223 min read
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‘Darlings’: A Dark Comedy? Or a Horrifying Truth?
SPOILERS! This review will contain spoilers for the movie 'Darlings' August has been a month of a huge influx of South Asian stories, and...

Aleesa Nazeer
Aug 28, 20223 min read
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'Wedding Season': The Desi Rom-Com of Our Dreams
Netflix recently has had a huge boom of South Asian focused content this August and we’re here to talk about one of the most pleasant...

Aleesa Nazeer
Aug 20, 20222 min read
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Never Have I Ever… Been So Proud of Devi Vishwakumar
[Spoilers for ‘Never Have I Ever’ Season 3!] The much awaited ‘Never Have I Ever’ Season 3 came out this weekend, and so much has changed...

Aleesa Nazeer
Aug 14, 20224 min read
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My Period Isn't Dirty or Embarrassing
When my now mother was about 12, she got her period at home in New Delhi. 25 years later, also at twelve, I got mine singing a solo in...

Annika Sharma
Aug 12, 20225 min read
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Ms. Marvel is the Desi Superhero We Deserve, and the ‘Noor’ at the End of the Tunnel
DISCLAIMER: this review WILL contain spoilers for Ms. Marvel Season 1. The ‘Ms. Marvel’ season finale premiered this week, and now is as...

Aleesa Nazeer
Jul 16, 20226 min read
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Pardesi Book Reviews: The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman
A family's legacy has the power to save or destroy their country. How do you shoulder the expectations of legacy? For many, we’re taught...

Anu Kumar
Jul 12, 20226 min read
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Erasing South Asian Women Activists Won't Help the Climate Crisis
Climate change is one of the greatest worldwide challenges to exist in the twenty-first century. People are impacted differently based on...
Aman Kalkat
Jun 15, 20224 min read
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Lotus Beauty Review: Play Explores Multigenerational Trauma in South Asian Community
“Women come, women go. We pamper them, preen them, make them beautiful. Make small talk. Never know what’s really under their skin.” As...

Priya Patel
May 31, 20224 min read
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Layers of My Lola: A Love Letter to My Nani
My grandparents migrated to India (Mumbai) from Sindh during the partition in 1947. After coming to India, my Nana (maternal grandfather)...

Nikita Asnani
Apr 26, 20223 min read
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Finding the Words: Is Mental Health Stigma Deep-Rooted in Our Languages?
I have always found it difficult to find the words in Gujarati to describe my general well-being, let alone talk about mental health....

Priya Patel
Apr 18, 20226 min read
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EXHIBITION: From City Of Empire To City Of Diversity: A Visual Journey at the Library of Birmingham
A major photographic exhibition, ‘From City Of Empire To City Of Diversity: A Visual Journey,' featuring 1,000s of images of Birmingham...

Pardesi
Apr 2, 20224 min read
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Pardesi Book Reviews: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
"Fate had not named her. But the choices men had made, and the choices she had made—when her brother had pressed a knife to her neck,...

Anam Peeran
Mar 22, 20225 min read
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Two Billion Beats: In Conversation with Playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya
Two Billion Beats, opening 5 February, is a captivating play about what it means to grow up as a South Asian teenage girl in a world...

Kaneeka Kapur
Feb 5, 20225 min read
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How Do You Talk to Your Kids About Skin Color?
One afternoon, my son came home and told me, ”My friends and I put our hands together and they said I was different. ” I told this...

Aditi Wardhan Singh
Feb 5, 20224 min read
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Addressing Mental Health In A South Asian Household
Rushi Ner explores the duality of secrecy of mental health in South Asian households and the responsibility on the children to be therapists
Rushi Ner
Jan 20, 20225 min read
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