by Anurag Lahiri – Guest Contributor [painting by Charuta Paresh] I have news for y’all: gossip can be lethal. A lot of us have been affected by the grand epidemic of gossip in the South Asian community. However, it isn’t just annoying, it can seriously harm people. Gossip isn’t just over...

By Sneha Goud – Managing Editor Amongst many South Indians, the first menstrual cycle in a girl often calls for much joy and celebration as it indicates that the girl is now a ‘grown up woman’, with her womb ready to ‘receive’. At the same time and in a seemingly contradictory manner, it...

by Aditi Mehta – Houston, TX Since BG’s inception, we have had many, many readers send us comments about the sticky topic of interracial relationships. Girls have asked for advice, shared their own stories, and even left advice for girls in facing the same dilemmas. There is a wide array...

by Neha Uberoi – Princeton University Miss Representation has been hitting college campuses around the country. If you haven’t heard of the movie, I urge you to at least watch the trailer. The film covers an extremely important issue that our society is facing today. It is one that is detrimental...

By Alisha Ebrahimji – Texas State University A few nights ago, curiosity killed my roommate when she found this documentary on Netflix titled Love in India Personally, I love documentaries and instantly had this burning desire to see what this one was all about. She didn’t give me much background...

by Keertana Sastry - University of Missouri Graduate   As Indian Americans, we all know how hard it can be to fit in with the crowd. During 9/11, I was living in Bastrop, Texas, a rural town where brown people are few and tractors a-plenty. The only thing I cared about that morning was how to stay...

By Sheela Lal – University of Missouri I hate reading articles about dating. None of them seem to understand what dating is like to women of color. Sorry, women of color and immigrants. Being a woman of color in a society full of white men, yes, dating is not easy. Being a daughter of immigrants...

by Alisha Ebrahimji – Texas State University Typical South Asian female expectations: go to college, find a kick-ass job, get married, and populate the world with a family of your own. Recently, I’ve been hearing about a number of people venturing out and choosing alternative measures to find...

By Atiya Hasan The democratic role model of the world is in a race against time to put a woman in the president’s seat. The same country that broke its previous record of all Caucasian male presidents finally elected a black man in 2008. It is once again daring itself to break the all-men record...

By Sneha Goud I guess it was inevitable.  Now that brown girls are reaching adulthood, free from our strict upbringing, some negative attention was bound to strike our model minority image. But the last few weeks have brought some unfortunate scandals. If you’re even a casual Internet user, you...