Desi Today Magazine
She’s bold. She’s enterprising. She’s versatile. She’s tenacious. Sandy Sidhu is indeed a perfect role model for South Asian females who want to pursue an acting career in North America. Her advice to aspiring actresses: “Tell yourself that you can do it. Work hard. Listen to the whispers of your heart and have faith. Somehow your heart already knows what …
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Who Should Be The Next Mayor of Surrey?
DESI TODAY requested Councillor Linda Hepner of Surrey First, former Surrey mayor Doug McCallum and Councillor Barinder Rasode to present their take on why they should be the next Mayor of Surrey to our readers. All of them readily agreed. So here are their write-ups and our readers should go through them carefully to decide who they think would be …
Read More »Baban Gill Couture: Bringing elegance & sophistication back in style
Surrounded by fashion from a young age and with a stylish mother, who had a closet full of gorgeous Indian pieces, as her role model, Baban Gill has been living, breathing and dreaming about Indian fashion from an early age. Her mother, a talented seamstress and designer, stitched Indian outfits for Baban and her younger sister Kimi during their younger …
Read More »On a path to her soccer dream – Simmrin Dhaliwal
“I’m a really competitive person so if someone says they’re better than me, I will do whatever it takes to be the best.” Before Simmrin Dhaliwal was 16, she had the numbers of Ivy League and NCAA Division 1 college soccer coaches programmed into her phone. Simmrin was all of 16 but was already weighing offers to attend Princeton, Northwestern …
Read More »Arkie Kandola: An Interview with a Serial Optimist. You Know Him, You Love Him, it’s Arkie Kandola
We call him a comedian because he makes us laugh, but Arkie Kandola is not a comedian any more than the ‘alter-egos’ that have made him ahousehold name in the Internet Community – 2 Turbanz, Milkcake, ASAPArkie, Kinder Kumar and simply Arkie. While not a comic, Kandola is a “student of life” as he so eloquently put it. Arkinder (Arkie) …
Read More »The Business of Being Sonya Gill
Taking the tech industry by storm quick bio Sonya Gill has achieved the impossible: She is one of the first South Asian female entrepreneurs tackling a predominantly male field of tech and social media, has self-published a book and launched Canada’s first social media magazine and get this, she’s done it all before turning 33. Born in BC and raised …
Read More »Mannu Sandhu has arrived
From pageants to philanthropic efforts, Mannu Sandhu has come a long way QUICK BIO Mannu Sandhu was raised in Surrey, BC. To her family, the small town of Surrey must have felt millions of miles away from their native India, where Mannu was raised in Palampur. Chasing the Canadian dream of opportunity, Mannu’s family left India when she was …
Read More »Humble the Poet: The Voice of Youth & Social Activism
“I want to create something that lives past me, and it’s no different than people wanting to have kids. You have kids because you want to work on a project and watch it bloom and blossom. My creative work is my kids; it’s my legacy.” – Humble the Poet QUICK BIO It’s been a little over five years since Kanwer …
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