by Farah Mithani – Houston Baptist University Butterflies and giggles. Right before your first kiss, the first time he holds your hand and doesn’t want to let go, whispering your name making you feel like a princess.  These moments are the ones I cherish.  Love grows stronger within the eyes,...

by Sneha Goud – Michigan State – Graduate Photograph was submitted by Natasha Raheja at Wave Mall in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. In another example of Western-style capitalism exerting its influence in the East, McDonald’s new marketing campaign for India tries to make a connection ...

by Pooja Kansal – Indiana University During a November 2009 interview with CNN, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan said that, “Indian cinema needs to move beyond traditional song-and-dance musicals amid increasing international competition in the Mumbai studios’ domestic market.” The...

by Shivangi Ramachandran – University of Oregan The sounds of ringing phones, chattering voices and looming deadlines, that sounded suspiciously like the clicking of the spacebar key, wouldn’t leave me alone the last couple of days I was in Bombay. It was all for a college project that I needed...

by Neethi Srinivasan – University of Michigan There is a saying that if you assume something about someone you make an ass out of yourself and the other person. Though this “clever” comeback may often find its place in recess discourse (along with the ever so popular “talk the hand because...

by Komal Thakkar – George Washington University Ever since I was in eighth grade, the Board of Education felt it absolutely necessary to mandate a summer reading list comprised of the most boring books on the face of the earth. Every June after final exams, our English teachers would present us...

by Shivangi Ramachandran – University of Oregon I spent this last weekend at home with a good friend of mine. Over drinks, we talked about a variety of different things, from school to our jobs to our mutually reclusive dating lives. We lingered over that last one for a while there. We’re...

by Komal Thakkar – George Washington University When my parents used to tell my brother and me that we would be attending a pooja later that night, we would groan with disappointment and the protests would begin. “We just went to one last weekend, and we don’t even understand what’s going...

by Neethi Srinivasan – University of Michigan Pageants – it’s one of my many guilty pleasures. Though the word alone makes my skin crawl with images of taffeta and tiaras, pageants are one of those social train wrecks that I can’t take my eyes off. Like any good reality show, they have...

by Farah Mithani – Houston Baptist University What to be and what not to be.  I thought everything would just fall into place after graduation.  I’ve been stuck in a swirling vortex of confusion.  Who knew reality would be this hard? I should have listened to my parents when they warned me...