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Planning a Sangeet or Big Desi Celebration in Canada? Here’s What Actually Changes
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You Don’t Find a Desi Friend Circle in Canada. You Build One.
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I Cried in a No Frills Aisle My First Week in Canada. Here’s Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Landed.
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Attending a South Asian Event in Canada: What No One Tells You
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Planning a Sangeet or Big Desi Celebration in Canada? Here’s What Actually Changes
CELEBRATIONS & PLANNING · FIRST PERSON “I found myself doing something I never once did back home: building a spreadsheet.” That’s what happened the week before my cousin’s sangeet in Mississauga. Vendor names, deposit deadlines, a running tally of who was doing the flowers versus who was doing the return favours. Back home, this entire…
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You Don’t Find a Desi Friend Circle in Canada. You Build One.
COMMUNITY & BELONGING · FIRST PERSON “Everything’s going well.” That’s what I told my parents three months after moving to Mississauga. And on paper, it was true. I had found an apartment, opened a bank account, figured out the GO Train schedule, and finally stopped relying on Google Maps every time I stepped outside. Except…
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I Cried in a No Frills Aisle My First Week in Canada. Here’s Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Landed.
NEWCOMER LIFE · FIRST PERSON “Is this the same dal my mom uses?” I landed in Toronto in November with two suitcases, a rice cooker my mom insisted I bring, and a fully formed plan for my first year in Canada. That plan lasted about nine days, right up until the moment I stood in…