this scene made me cry. wait no. this whole movie made me cry. but this scene was i c o n i c. gave me chills. of course, it’s possible for men to love with their heart and soul but i think zaara’s mom was alluding to the fact that us women, have to sacrifice Read more
i was looking at the new york city skyline one day and realized that i’ve seen it so many times from different places but i still don’t have a specific favorite place to see it from. we see the skylines of our favorite cities while driving, while standing on the 60th floor of a building, Read more
i remember being in elementary school pretending like i didn’t understand my native language whenever someone spoke it. i pretended to not know what bollywood was and i would purposely mispronounce indian names of students. growing up in a predominantly immigrant area in new york, i prided myself on being “american” and “cool”. god forbid Read more
I highly recommend every one of my friends, especially the men, to watch this Ted talk. Too often in society, especially in patriarchal cultures (Punjab, India, Pakistan, etc.) boys are taught from the get-go to be “manly”, not “act like girls”, be “brave”. In doing this, they learn to internalize some very serious emotions in Read more
If there’s one thing I would recommend for someone to definitely do in their life, it’s this: Go to a J. Cole Concert. Lights Please did it for me. It was the first time I heard someone passionately address social injustices in such an eloquent manner. The sexual undertones mixed with the pleas for an intellectual awakening was Read more
The inspiration to start Winged Sandals did not start from wanderlust-ing remote locations all over the world (ok maybe a little bit). It really started with my father. When my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years ago, It didn’t really hit me until a few months later when I noticed him struggling to remember Read more
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