Lakme Fashion Week is arguably the biggest fashion event in Mumbai where many familiar faces such as Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal have been featured on the runway. It has included international labels such as Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Manish Malhotra, Rohit Bal, Sabyasachi and many more. We are proud that Abbotsford born, Jasmeen Johal, is representing …

Imagine two people arriving late for an appointment. One says, “Sorry I’m late,” while the other says “Thank you for your patience.” How do you respond? How is it different? Apologizing to someone shows your humility while thanking someone shows your appreciation. You could be put in the exact same situation and choose one of these two routes to take. …

“I wanted to play for the home team, ” Jas Dhillon exclaims. “I wanted to be a homegrown kid who gets my represent my community.” The 26-year-old UBC graduate was born and raised in Surrey, BC and is living out his dream as offensive linesmen for the BC Lions. The journey getting there was not an easy one. Jas began …

Social media has become a hot topic in recent years. When it was first unveiled, Myspace and later Facebook were hailed as innovative. People flocked to join and become apart of this new trend. Recently these social media sites have been blamed for suicides caused by bullying among adolescents, as well a tendency for people to actually become less social. …

Whether it be your mom, cousin, friend or sibling, it can be easy to neglect the ones we love. Further, we often make the excuse that we’re short on cash as the reason why we don’t show tokens of appreciation. It often takes very small gestures to make a person feel appreciated so we have compiled a quick list of …

What’s cuter than a photograph of a sweet baby nestling into their crib with their favourite blanket sucking on their thumb as they sleep? Parents can all agree that tooth decay is anything but cute. Every parent knows that their infant will suck on their thumb at one point or another, but the question they may not know the answer to …

Well it’s that time of the year again where we set goals for ourselves for the whole year. I am sure that the one resolution that we can all say we have either contemplated or set is: staying healthy and/or working out. Chances are at some time in your life you’ve made a New Year’s resolution — and then broken …

Taking a cue from cotton candy machines, scientists have developed a 3D artificial capillary system that can keep living cells viable and functional for more than a week, thus paving the way for making life-sized artificial livers, kidneys, bones and other essential organs. Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tennessee-based Vanderbilt University, has been tinkering with cotton candy …

By Amrita Lit We all know of relationships in which everyone but those involved can see this couple is just not right for each other. Yet these two individuals cling on to one another. Be it for comfort, familiarity, fear of the unknown, or just because they’re too damn lazy to do anything about their unhappiness. Perhaps it’s the case that …

By Amrita Lit Have you noticed your mother acting different lately? Using less English, and more dramatic Punjabi or Hindi dialogue? Are they picking fights and seeing issues where they don’t exist? Well perhaps they have fallen victim to the Hindi-Drama-Apocalypse. It’s happening right in your homes and will reach its peak when you least expect it. At first it’ll …