This blog was first published for 5XPress. The news of the tragic loss of Sidhu Moosewala shook the world this week and was yet another...

The world was taken by storm by Netflix’s hit reality show Indian Matchmaking, but for many of us, mainly the brown women whose entire...

When Nikki Haley, who was born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa, stands in front of United States citizens and addresses the nation, stating that...

on making it to the Olympics, representation & constantly raising the bar for herself For 27-year-old Olympian Gurpreet Sohi, “pressure...

For most of my life, I thought my inability to turn my brain off, my over-thinking, and my immediate panic response when life got...

Last week, for just a few hours, we experienced what a world without Facebook, Whatsapp or Instagram would be like. While many felt...

For those wanting to challenge the status quo, even South Asian media spaces aren’t always inviting. It’s time to move past the “uncle’s...

A somewhat recent phenomenon I noticed on social media is what I’m calling the South Asian Bride to IG Influencer Pipeline™. This is...

As stories filled my inbox and DMs this past week, I was overwhelmed at the number of people sharing their wedding planning horror...

One of the most important things to come out of the conversations around massive, lavish weddings is the consequences of focusing more on...

An Indian wedding vendor’s take on the wedding planning process It was an unexpected situation for me, an unmarried 25-year-old with...

One of the most life changing things I’ve learned in the last few years is the power in the word “no.” The two-letter word is quite...

CW: Mention of suicide The challenges faced by international students have been well documented and discussed in the past, to the point...

The feud between mother and daughter in laws is a tale as old as time. We’ve all likely heard stories of how mothers may feel threatened...

This tweet gave me war-time flashbacks to being a teenager in high school in a relationship and trying to figure out what to tell my...

When it comes to weddings, there is clearly no shortage of stories of how one could, or should live out their big day. When it comes to...