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A Call to Service
One month in the slums of Mumbai changed a yound medical student's life. Now, he's working feverishly to change the lives of others.

Picking Up the Pieces
After the tsunami in South and Southeast Asia, relief workers around the world went to work. Nirali caught up with two volunteers hoping to make a change in India and Indonesia. Though their work was very different, their mission was the same—to help devastated communities pick up the pieces.

Arts and Entertainment
Calling Karachi
Novelist Kamila Shamsie talks to Nirali about her city by the sea.

Dance's Different Debut
V. A. Gayathri dances Bharatanatyam to her own tune.

Career and Education
Working Woman: Safia Fatimi
Each month, Nirali talks to a South Asian American woman who has distinguished herself in a non-traditional field to find out how she made it to the top. This month, we focus on professional photographer Safia Fatimi.

Health and Beauty
In Like a Lion
Vasanti Cosmetics' Pinki Patel shows you how to make an unforgettable entrance with her pretty picks for the spring.

Ask Shalini
Celebrity beauty expert Shalini Vadhera answers your beauty questions in her monthly beauty column.

Life and Style
From Beads to Bergdorf
Bag and accessories designer Moyna Singh embroiders herself a niche market in the high-priced world of couture.

Home is Where the Sparkle Is
Wrap Lucknow round your little fingers with the spectacular gems of taj taj jewelry. .

Society and Culture
Innocent Abroad
When Nakasha Ahmad spent two years living in her parents' native Pakistan, she'd never given much thought to her identity. But she found she had a lot to think about.

On Location
San Francisco
Each month, Nirali explores a different city or college campus across the country to help you find the brown-friendliest places coast to coast.