What 16 Days on a Bus With My Dad Taught Me About Life and Loss

Published online for Father’s Day at FLARE.com and in print for FLARE‘s September issue. Last year, my family of three boarded the plane to India, but only two of us needed tickets. My dad’s blue backpack contained our passports, an unlocked cell phone, and my mother’s ashes. My mum never really talked about the possibility of her […]

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The First-Ever South Asian Millennial Conference Successfully Caters to the Diaspora

Conference coverage for India.com. This Valentine’s Day weekend might have been the coldest day in New York City, but that did not stop impassioned students who braved the subzero temperatures to discuss hot topics within the South Asian community. The inaugural South Asian Millennials Conference, held at Columbia University and Barnard College, hosted an estimated […]

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Lilly ‘Superwoman’ Singh’s Documentary Resonates Deeply with The Masses

Review for Global-Indian section of India.com Lilly Singh, better known as “Superwoman,” is taking her self-made stardom to new heights with “A Trip to Unicorn Island”—a documentary that gives viewers a first-class seat on the YouTube sensation’s world tour. Sitting down to watch the film, now available for purchase on YouTube Red, I expected to see […]

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Why ‘Angry Indian Goddesses’ is a Lot More Than ‘India’s First Female Buddy Comedy’ Film

Appeared online on Brown Girl Magazine on Sept. 23, 2015.  The streets were lined with orange barricades, celebrity sightings were viral and plentiful, and lines of ticket holders hugged the sides of the movie theater, waiting eagerly for the doors to open and the show to begin. This was the Toronto International Film Festival and on […]

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J-Source: How to keep your emotional distance as a journalist

Appeared online at J-Source.ca, Feb. 14, 2014 Teenagers aren’t usually bald, but that is the only look I have seen on 18-year-old Michael Friedman. The teenage Ewing sarcoma patient lay in a SickKids hospital bed, receiving chemotherapy drip-by-drip, while I furiously recorded observations for my feature on cancer caregivers—recently published in the March issue of Reader’s Digest […]

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