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The Many Faces of Navi Rawat
If you haven't heard of this multi-talented maven yet, you will soon. Navi Rawat might just be Hollywood's next big thing.

Arts and Entertainment
Film Fans Unite
Do you know everything there is to know about Bollywood? Filmigame lets you outwit your aunties and bhaiyas with your filmi smarts.

Dancing Canvases
Raghava KK is one of India's hottest emerging artists. Nirali finds out how he brings his works to life.

Escape Artist
Brew yourself a mug of java or a pyaali of chai, settle into the most comfortable armchair you can find and travel with these authors to times and places far away.

Career and Education
Working Woman: Prita Uppal
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 caught up with entrepreneur Prita Uppal.

Health and Beauty
A Traditional Beauty
Think threading is for the aunties? Think again. Shobha Tummala brings this ancient art uptown.

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

Life and Style
The Craft of Couture
The art of traditional Indian crafts may be dying, but Xari Couture founder Sandhya Jain is doing everything she can to keep it alive.

Dream to Design
Clothing designer Bibhu Mohapatra talks to Nirali about achieving fame in fashion.

Flavor for Fashion
Saffron Rare Threads boasts clothing that takes you "from the conference room to the cocktail hour." See why this new line is turning heads all over the country.

The Wedding Planner
Planning a South Asian wedding in America? Look no further than Indian Wedding Site, a new, comprehensive compendium of desi wedding resources.

Society and Culture
Finding a Thoroughly Modern Male
In February, we ran "The (D)evolution of the Desi Dude," wondering if the progressive South Asian guy exists. But contributor Roxanna Kassam doesn't believe the outlook is bleak. She offers five tips on how to bag your own thoroughly modern South Asian male.

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