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...

By Priya Mukhopadhyay – Stony Brook University “Mom, Dad, you don’t get it!” I’m sure we’ve all heard this phrase leave our mouths or even had to bite our tongues when wanting to say it numerous times.  Growing up in a South Asian household while going to school in a Western environment...

by Shritin Patel – Houston Baptist University Graduate This letter is in rebuttal to Scott Adam’s (creator of Dilbert) blog post titled “Pegs and Holes“.   Dear Scott Adams, I have been sitting at my computer screen staring at the blank page in front of me for several days. ...

by Sailaja Joshi – Simmons College I like to think of myself as a fashionable girl. I follow Fashion Week and I love anything Manish Arora. I love the merging of Western design with my beloved Indian culture. Except for this. Last week, during Australia’s Fashion Week, Lisa Blue sent an offensive...

by Shritin Patel - Houston Baptist University Graduate Whilst Perusing www.cnn.com (a daily ritual for me) at work, I came across something that made my blood boil and made me feel sick to my stomach. Literally. A 7 year old Bangladeshi boy was brutally mutilated by gang members because he refused to...