Desi Today Magazine
Like a lot of workaholics, I do most of my shopping online. Who has time to do a weekly Costco shop to buy toilet paper and laundry detergent, when I can buy them with a click of a button and within the comfort of my home office? But the convenient one-click buying power has a dark downside – it’s way …
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Celebrate a Stress Free Lohri
The first Lohri of a baby has special significance and is an important occasion celebrated with friends and family. Despite the tradition of Lohri being celebrated for the birth of a baby boy, most modern families celebrate Lohri for the birth all children: boys and girls. As these events have become large and lavish affairs, planning for them has also …
Read More »Desi Girl: Paarull Bakshi
Paarull Bakshi has a Business Administration with a major in marketing and works as a marketing assistant for an architectural firm in Vancouver. She has also been working with many small businesses in Vancouver in the lower mainland for the past few years assisting them with various needs in the field of marketing, sales, PR and business development. Apart from …
Read More »‘Tis the Season to be Healthy
If you’re like me, your favorite part of holiday get-togethers is snacks. Couple rich, indulgent appetizers with the calorie-laden meals that follow, and things can get out of hand pretty quickly. I’m not advocating cutting back on any of your favorite dishes this season. Instead, here are healthy tips so you can snack smarter without missing out on holiday joy. …
Read More »Liar Liar: Signs That You’re Being Lied To
It’s unlikely that you’ve never told a little white like, or an outright fib. Maybe you got away with it, maybe you didn’t. Maybe it was a harmless white like that protected another person’s feelings, or maybe it was a serious deception. We’re not here to ask questions, we’re here to protect you from getting burned on the other end …
Read More »Facebook Envy: How social media could be lowering your self-esteem
According to Nielsen Media Research, on average we spend upwards of 7 hours per month on Facebook. With my cursor hovering over the delete my account button, I break into a sweat and close my browser before I can pull the trigger. Much like trying to leave a bad relationship, I can’t seem to break it off. In 2004 when …
Read More »How the Holiday Can Wreak Havoc on your Relationship
Unless you and your partner are jetting off to Bora Bora for the holidays, it’s over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house you go. Spending the holiday season with each other’s families can put you on the fast track to a closer connection, or create some serious holiday drama. Both families want face time Both families want …
Read More »The Failures of Government and Non-Profit Systems
Our ethnic children and youth are not receiving culturally responsive services, as culturally responsive services would include involving family members like parents and grandparents – something ‘mainstream’ services for the most part don’t do because they don’t have the time or the language capacity. The same government funding model for multicultural health and emotional health services has been in place …
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A short story by Suresh Kurl The following story is based on certain historical facts, cultural realities and my own imagination. The year was 1939. I had no karmic credits to bank on and no destiny to guide me yet. I was not even born. But the upheaval and chaos of the Second World War were already defining my life. …
Read More »Pulitzer Prize Winners of Indian Origin
I’ve recently vowed to put away the smut escapist fiction women all over the world are readily indulging in, and read more challenging and engaging fiction. Where better to look than at the work of Pulitzer prize winners? The Pulitzer prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. Looking through the list …
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