S2 Ep10: Health & Wellness #9: Season Finale
Start off your new year with a quick reminder of all the amazing tips and tricks from our guests this season. And thank you for all the love...
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American Desis is a podcast geared to sharing what it's like to be a South Asian in America through fresh, funny, and insightful interviews. Comedian Akaash Singh and actor Arjun Gupta emplo...
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S2 Ep9: Health & Wellness #8: Jon Aaron - Meditation Before Levitation
In the last interview of our health & wellness season, we talk to someone who was crucial to Arjun's personal wellness journey - meditation...
S2 Ep8: Health & Wellness #7: Monica Bhanote - Squatting When You Poop
In the seventh episode of our health & wellness season we get to one of our most requested topics: AYURVEDA. We speak with Monica Bhanote of...
S2 Ep7: Health & Wellness #6: Navin Dargani - A Full Range of Emotions
Episode 6 of our health and wellness season starts off with one of Arjun’s PSAs on mental health but eventually we get to talk to Navin Darg...
S2 Ep6: Health & Wellness #5: Akhil Shenoy - Almost A Surgeon
In episode 5, we talked to transplant psychiatrist Akhil Shenoy about psychiatry in the desi population as it interacts with parenting, alco...
S2 Ep5: Health & Wellness #4: Aditi Shah - Reclaiming Yoga
In episode 3 of our health and wellness season we talk to yoga instructor Aditi Shah about her personal journey with the practice and how th...
S2 Ep4: Health & Wellness #3: Shom Chowdhury - Healthy Is Sexy
In the third episode of our health and wellness season we talk to Shom Chowdhury, owner of Indie Fresh and the most jacked desi dude we've e...
S2 Ep3: Health & Wellness #2: Shubhani Chaitanya - Monkhood Over Marc Jacobs
Episode 2 of our health and wellness season starts off with mindfulness but quickly goes much deeper into finding purpose within the chaos o...
S2 Ep2: Health & Wellness #1: Ashima Kant - Paet Studies
The first episode of our health and wellness season is about something we all love but don’t often know what to do with: food!! In the day a...
S2 Ep1: Allow Us to Re-introduce Ourselves
Health & Wellness Season Opener! A quick 7 minute episode to reintroduce ourselves to you because we are insecure and thought you may have f...
S1 Ep112: Happy (Very Belated) New Year!
The boys are back!...kinda...they drop in to wish everyone a MUCG belated happy new year and to share what's up! They explain why they haven...
S1 Ep111: State of the Podcast
The tides of change upon us and we here at American Desis are not immune to it. So we decided to drop a State of the Podcast episode to let...
S1 Ep110: Community Episode- Arjun is Mad Indian
Happy New Year's, everyone! After a holiday hiatus (forced upon us because Arjun landed a movie role in India) we ring in the new year with...
S1 Ep109: Sujata Gupta Winfield- A Story of Love
The idea going against your parents and marrying the person you choose is an American ideal that has become fairly commonplace for our gener...
S1 Ep108: Yassir Lester Part 2- We're Done Babbling
In the second half of our interview with Yassir we make our way around to the less significant details: his racial makeup and identity, how...
S1 Ep107: Yassir Lester Part 1- F*ck Cecil the Lion
Our episodes the last few weeks have been quite serious in response to the goings on of the world. But balance is something we care about he...
S1 Ep106: Community Episode- What Now?
After the stunning events of Tuesday's election, we wanted to have a safe space for people to be heard. So we read the emails and tweets tha...
S1 Ep105: Keertana and Pallavi Sastry- Sisterhood
As we realize post election the importance of making sure we are listening to more points of views and cultivating a more true diversity, it...
S1 Ep104: Community Episode- Diwali: Love and Light
On today's community episode, the boys focus on Diwali. They interview each other on what the holiday means to them and share different stor...
S1 Ep103: Barnali Ghosh & Anirvan Chatterjee- Our Radical History
There is a narrative of our community as being apolitical and somewhat isolationistic since we have gotten to this country. This is supporte...