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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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Beauty for Brown Skin - Meet the Founder of Brown Girl Beauty
Rather than adhere to beauty standards not made for us, I wanted to create something that actually celebrates our own features and heritage.

Shikha Gianchandani
Jul 3, 20214 min read
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The Desi Condition Podcast: Mental Health for the South Asian Community
Is mental health talked about in your family, or is it swept under the rug? The Desi Condition is a mental health podcast that seeks to...

Shreya Sridharan
May 29, 202110 min read
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That Desi Spark Podcast: Nuanced Conversations for Every South Asian
The Woke Desi strives to make space for others to have their identity and experiences talked about because there’s no one way to be “brown"
Michell Reddy
May 15, 202110 min read
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"No one is going to love you until you love yourself" is a damaging narrative for South Asian women
"No one is going to love you until you love yourself" is a toxic and damaging narrative to all women, but especially to South Asian...

Kaneeka Kapur
May 5, 20217 min read
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6 South Asian Female Academics You Should Know About
This list will be updated weekly Being a Desi woman in the humanities can be daunting. Within the sea of whiteness that characterises...

Jasmine Joshi
Apr 3, 202110 min read
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Get Up Aisha: the web-series about a high-functioning depressed Pakistani girl we NEEDED
Get Up Aisha is a short-form digital series that focuses on Aisha Rehman after she becomes diagnosed with chronic depression.

Kaneeka Kapur
Feb 27, 20215 min read
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The Notebook
Before Galentines was memorialised in pop-culture by iconoclast and generally iconic lady, Leslie Knope, there was nine-year-old me who,...

Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
Feb 15, 20214 min read
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You NEED to check out Loudmouth Ladkis
Loudmouth Ladkis is a popular desi diasporic podcast hosted by Saniya Soni and Sapna Ramappa. Launched in 2019 after a shared desire to...

Kaneeka Kapur
Feb 8, 20216 min read
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To the Not-Like-Other-Girls Girls
Dedicated to a younger me. When did we, as collective members of the global sisterhood, come together and decide to strategically...

Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
Jan 31, 20216 min read
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Kalaakriti: NehaxStitch
The Kalaakriti series aims to highlight the stories of different artists with South Asian backgrounds. In today’s installation, check out...

Keerti Tadimeti
Jan 18, 20216 min read
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"I broke out from my cage and spread my wings to fly high and free" - Jas Kaur
Jas Kaur, also known as Fit Kaur, is a personal trainer and podcaster, and founded the popular support group Brown Girls Rising.

Pardesi
Jan 12, 20216 min read
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How empowering women elevates us all: in conversation with Shana Abraham, author of RISE
An excerpt with an interview with Shana Abraham, author of RISE.
Kavya Sebastian
Nov 4, 20204 min read
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Shikha Gianchandani
Nov 1, 20202 min read
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Financial Independence with Boss Betis
Aashka Piprottar is a recent graduate working in financial services who is passionate about promoting financial empowerment for desi womxn.

Pardesi
Oct 7, 20204 min read
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#LetsTalkColorism Op-Ed: On Colorism
Sophia Saeed discusses her interaction with colourism and how this has led to her completing her final year dissertation on the subject.
Sophia Saeed
Sep 24, 20204 min read
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Op-Ed: Skin Bleaching - the next epidemic
Ria Verma analyses the Skin Bleaching epidemic that has taken its grip over South Asia for decades and it showing no sign of slowing down.
Ria Verma
Sep 16, 20205 min read
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