Poona born, Brooklyn based, Kanchan Koya founded Spice Spice Baby to inspire families to use spices and still feed their children delicious food. Discover how this molecular biologist hit a road block in a white male dominated industry and made a complete pivot, while out on a run, only to hit her stride. Kanchan’s journey...Read More
Not unlike Kajol in her popular debut movie DDLJ, while growing up in the UK, Raj Girn was the quintessential desi girl juggling dual identities. Discover how she was a typical teenager outside her home and a conformist inside her home even agreeing to an arranged marriage and moving countries. Raj reveals how she came...Read More
Bangalore girl, Priya Doraswamy, has come a long way from her idyllic days at Bishop Cotton girls school where she roamed the city and never bothered to shave her underarms. She now runs a successful Literary house while raising two boys, cooking up a storm and still finding time to garden. It’s all about juggling...Read More
Geeta Anand grew up in Bombay, attending the elite Cathedral school, but that’s where her resemblance to your typical South Bombay girl ends. She was a competitive swimmer going to remote places in India, like Patiala, for training camps. Find out why she decided to give up a career in swimming and turned to Investigative...Read More
After a two decade long public finance career, which included the role of financial advisor to New York City and other city government, Reshma Patel, set her sights on shattering the glass ceiling of politics and ran for office of comptroller of New York City. She stood fifth in a crowded field of thirteen, but...Read More
As a kid she was mistaken for native American in her mostly white school in small town Texas. From making career choices that had her mother requesting her to see a psychiatrist, to being blackballed by investors for her snarky writing style, Sindhya followed her passion and carved a path for herself in beauty tech....Read More
Imagine a woman leaving the cocoon of her homeland only to storm the bastions of a foreign land. That’s Sujata Bajaj. Listen to her stories of beginning her journey in the ‘Pink city’ of Jaipur, meandering through Pune and Mumbai before settling in Paris, without knowing a word of French. Now, she’s a world famous...Read More
The EkWomen podcasts share authentic and inspiring narratives from South Asian women of the diaspora. This interview with Bandana Purkayastha features a woman at the forefront of diversity, gender, and race issues in North America. Purkayastha was born in Kolkota, or Calcutta as it was known then, and emigrated to the US in 1984. She...Read More
A biracial girl growing up in India can be quite an experience as Meera Gandhi discovered. From fielding questions about being Anglo, to getting prime roles in school plays and following a western diet at home, Meera as moulded by her cultural experiences. Listen as she speaks about her Irish mother encouraging her to volunteer...Read More
Award winning freelance writer, Bijal Trivedi is a scientist by training, but her passion for writing led her to science journalism, specializing in medicine and health. EkWomen brings you stories of inspiring women of the South Asian diaspora. Bijal spent her formative years in the UK and Australia before her family moved to the US...Read More
