THE REALITY OF BEING BIRACIAL: BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN/BLINDIAN An Interview with Sitara Abbas “One’s eyes serve as the windows to the world and one’s mind serves as the curtains to the windows. To be able to abdicate one’s biases and prejudices, emerging and embracing the beauty of what may not be akin, is to …
20 Amazing Multicultural Diwali Gift Ideas What Is Diwali? Diwali, aka Deepavali, is the festival of lights. In Hinduism, it exemplifies how only light can dispel darkness and commemorates good’s victory over evil. It is a time for reflection, celebration, and gift-giving (like New Years in the United States of America). It is an official holiday …
My First Karva Chauth As A Christian Newly Married My husband passed me the telephone and my mother-in-law transitioned from Hindi to English. “Hi, Nikita how are you, it’s going to be Karva Chauth in 3 days. Are you going to keep Karva Chauth for your husband?” “Karva Chauth”, I muttered, like a deer …
Interracial/Intercultural Marriage: Tamil-Canadian Woman And African-American Man About Us Melanie is Tamil-Canadian and Roland is African-American. They met in graduate school and were long distance for the first three years of their relationship. After Roland proposed, Melanie moved to the United States. Ironically, while Melanie hates spicy food, Roland loves spicy Tamil dishes. They just …
Marriage Resume Secrets Aka BioData Prior to dating and marrying my husband who is South Asian, I had never heard of the term biodata. He had hesitantly mentioned to me that his parents wanted to have his biodata done before we were engaged. Yet he was swift to let them know the biodata route was not for …
5 MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SOUTH ASIANS/INDIANS DEBUNKED It’s almost humorous that I’m writing this post. However, it has become justifiable. And hopefully it will be eye opening for many of you that are curious and/or open to learning more about South Asian/Indian culture. I know you must be thinking, say what? What happened? BEING A MULTIRACIAL AND MULTICULTURAL FAMILY …
Never Lose Faith Interracial/Intercultural Marriage: Cuban-American Woman And Indian Man About Meet Stephanie and Ranjeet! Stephanie is a second generation Cuban – American woman married to Ranjeet, who is from India. Together they have two beautiful kids, Samaya who is 4 years old, and their newest addition, a son Avyaan who is 6 months …
From OkCupid To A Long Distance Relationship And Marriage Interracial/Intercultural Marriage: Polish Woman And Indian Man Aka Polindi Diaries How We Met Hi, we are Justyna and Abhi aka Polindi Diaries. Polindi Diaries came about because I am Polish and my husband is Indian. We met online February 2016 via an online dating app called OkCupid. We both …
BIRACIAL PARENTING-WHERE ARE THE KIDS THAT LOOK LIKE ME? “I want to go play with my sister!” I looked at my biracial daughter with confusion because she does not have a sister. She pointed at a little Caucasian girl she had began to play with, in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) waiting area, that had a fondness for my little …
A Father’s Perspective: I Wanted A Son But We Had A Daughter Deeply Rooted Cultural Beliefs Growing up, as a person of Indian decent it is ingrained in you that when it comes to having a child having a boy is better than having a girl. The context for this line of reasoning is purely …
