Jay Sean: The British-Indian artiste completes 20 years in hip-hop music world

by Charu Thakur | Apr 16, 2024

(April 16, 2024) Who can forget the peppy song Dance With You from the early 2000s? Then a 22-year-old, Jay Sean was among the few South Asian artistes who exploded on the music scene with a chartbuster that was set to change the course of his life. The song made the...

Indo-Canadian musician Rehan Dalal is vibing to his own tunes

by Namrata Srivastava | Mar 14, 2024

(March 14, 2024) His affair with music started when he was merely a kid, and he hated it. While Rehan Dalal loved playing the keyboard and listening to jazz and rock music even back then, he felt restricted in music classes and stopped attending them soon. Today, a...

‘Buy’ the sustainable way: How social entrepreneur Akshai Sarin empowers the marginalised

by Darshana Ramdev | Sep 10, 2024

(September 10, 2024) Social entrepreneur Akshai Sarin’s website opens into a little blitzkrieg of photos – you see him chatting casually with Paris Hilton and standing with an arm around Amitabh Bachchan. Sarin is a serial entrepreneur and a maverick, with...

How Ritu Arya of Barbie fame found her footing in Hollywood

by Charu Thakur | Apr 11, 2024

(April 11, 2024) Growing up playing with Barbie dolls that looked a certain way (Read white, blue eyes, and blonde hair), Ritu Arya never thought that she’d be playing the character on screen. However, there she was taking up the space as a South Asian actor...

A royal feast: Yuvrani Shraddha Bhonsle’s modern touch to Sawantwadi’s culinary heritage

by Mallik Thatipalli | Mar 10, 2024

(March 10, 2024) The Japanese word ikigai is used to describe the very passion that gets you out of bed in the morning—your reason for being. One conversation with Yuvrani Shraddha Lakham Sawant Bhonsle and her ikigai is unmissable. Spending 15-day workdays on things...