surabhi raj

Being on a post college European extravaganza is to drink coffee in the morning and again in the afternoon and perhaps an espresso martini at night and not care what it costs because even if I did care, it would all be too delicious to pass up. Continue reading

Inspiration first struck when she watched One Direction’s, This is Us, documentary. “Seeing them touring,” she described, “I wanted to do that so badly. That was a moment where I was like I would love to do this with my life.” Continue reading

FLOWERS for VASES/descansos captures the ugly truth of reflecting on the parts of ourselves we never dare touch for fear that recognition might allow them more power. Continue reading

On January 18th of this year, I baked banana bread and in the hour it takes in the oven, I left for a Bryant Park stroll. Continue reading

Big budgets, melodramatic storylines, and a star studded cast have become a quintessential part of Hindi Cinema. So much so that, as a first generation Indian-American, it’s easy to forget that this hasn’t always been the Bollywood signature–it’s the Karan Johar signature. Continue reading

Om was once a sound and symbol only known to me in reference, separated from its roots by the well-meaning and the ignorant. In this moment, it pierced through the surface and demanded to be felt rather than trivialized. Continue reading

We are a species constantly trying to grasp at any sense of control we can find, regarding who we are and the trajectory of our lives. Yet, we are deeply affected on a daily basis by something that the average person has scant explanation for: the state of the weather. Continue reading

When you are in these songs, they are your entire world. When Taylor Swift sings as though the universe is forever changed by her chance encounter with a new romantic prospect or the latest in a string of betrayals, it is because to her, it is. Continue reading

It is widely known that New York City is filled with rats, waiting in the shadows on walks home and disturbing the peace with such intensity that you wonder if they will ever find their own. However, rats are not the only rodents who have claimed the land we’ve fooled ourselves into thinking is ours–… Continue reading

Many teenage girls are just like Devi and I, but most of them don’t witness the death of their dad at such a young age. With Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling, whose dad is very much alive, has accurately portrayed what such grief at such a specific time can be like–or at least what… Continue reading