The Journey Overcoming Challenges Empowering Women “To thine own self be true.” Everyone has a unique journey. Mine has been colourful and quite satisfying. I believe it begins and ends with my passion to travel and learn about other cultures. Surprisingly (or not) I got the motivation to travel through reading a book about Africa in elementary school. I was intrigued by a picture of a man standing in a field next to a lion, and I thought to myself, [...]

Inspiration Behind the Rajputana Collective Biggest Mentor 1. What was the inspiration behind your publication Rajputana Collective? Urvashi Singh Khimsar: Growing up, I constantly mourned the lack of narrative representation amongst my ethnic community. As post-modernist sensibilities aptly put it, histories are thoroughly skewed, especially when the subject involved lacks a voice of their own. When I connected the dots through my academic years, I did realize that the media's rampant generalizations tied to India's erstwhile princely and noble communities

Normalizing Acne Promoting Self Love Normalizing Acne “Obsessively fixating on how you look is limiting beyond belief and prevents you from appreciating everything beautiful about you, after all, beauty is defined in many ways.” As a 20-year-old, the unrealistic representation of beauty promoted on social media led me to develop a negative connotation about my own “far from flawless appearance.” It took me a lot of time to overcome this complex that I developed by comparing myself to airbrushed models.